Claude AI Down: Issues & Outage Updates – March 2026

Users began reporting issues with Claude AI shortly after 12 p.m. EST on March 23, 2026, according to initial reports from Downdetector.

The majority of reported problems, approximately 39 percent, center around Claude Chat, the platform’s conversational AI interface. An additional 25 percent of users are experiencing difficulties with the application itself, although 24 percent are unable to successfully log in, Downdetector data indicates.

As of 13:52 UTC on March 25, 2026, Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, stated they are continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting authentication across Claude surfaces, including Claude.ai. This follows a period between 23:59 and 00:30 UTC where users experienced these elevated errors.

Recent data from Claude’s status page shows 99.24% uptime for claude.ai over the past 90 days, with a partial outage recorded during that period. Platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com) has maintained 99.45% uptime, while the Claude API (api.anthropic.com) and Claude Code have reported 99.28% and 99.52% uptime respectively. Claude for Government has the highest uptime at 99.86%.

On March 25, 2026, at 13:10 UTC, Anthropic reported resolving elevated errors specifically impacting Claude Opus 4.6, stating a fix had been implemented and was under monitoring. However, broader issues persist as of this afternoon.

Users on Reddit have also documented experiencing random errors, described as messages stating “This isn’t working right now. You can attempt again later,” appearing after only a few interactions with the chatbot.

Anthropic offers subscription options for incident updates via email, text message, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, as well as Atom and RSS feeds. The company has not yet provided a specific timeline for full resolution of the current issues.