Claude outage on May 9, 2026
Claude users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this AI Tools service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 6h 25m. User reports peaked at 1 reports in a 60-minute window.
Claude appears to be operating normally based on current signals. DNS is no recent DNS check, user reports are quiet.
Cached · Fri, May 22, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC · scope: service signals
Status changed to Operational
The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 36.00.
Incident detected
Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for Claude.
Peak confidence reached
Confidence peaked at 78.00 while the service was marked Major Outage.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 6h 25m of observed impact.
- Official status
Status.Anthropic.Com reported an open incident, Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.1 (claude.ai, Claude Console (platform.claude.com), Claude API (api.anthropic.com)) · impact: minor
06:33 PM UTC - User reports
1 reports in 15m, 1 in 60m, Crowd-sourced reports from Claude users · top complaint: "Responses not loading" (1).
1/15m - News scan
News: Confirms, AOL reports Claude is down with errors and the chatbot is not working properly, indicating an outage/disruption for the service.
Major
Confidence scoring
77.00The incident reached 77.00 peak confidence across 27 stored status snapshots.
User reports
1 / 15mReport volume reached 1 in 15 minutes and 1 in 60 minutes during the incident window.
Status samples
24 affected24 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Sun, May 10, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC.