Partial outageAnthropicJuly 18, 2026

Elevated error rates for Sonnet 5

A record of the Anthropic incident on July 18, 2026 (Japan time): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
Jul 18, 2026, 03:12 AM
Resolved
Jul 18, 2026, 03:27 AM
Duration
15m
Impact
Partial outage

Current status

Anthropic is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

See current Anthropic status

What you can do during an outage

Source: Anthropic's official status page.

Other Anthropic incidents

  1. Microsoft Office add-in availabilityJuly 23, 2026
  2. Service disruption on Claude ServicesJuly 23, 2026
  3. Elevated error rates for Sonnet 5July 23, 2026
  4. Elevated errors on Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5July 22, 2026
  5. Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.1July 22, 2026