Is Claude Down? Live Anthropic Status & How to Check
Check if Claude is down with our live status monitor. Learn how to tell the difference between an outage, rate limits, and local issues.
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You can check if Claude is working in the live status display below: data from Anthropic’s official status page, refreshed every minute, broken down by claude.ai chat, API, Claude Code, and console. A green overall indicator doesn’t guarantee your specific account is working, and an API outage doesn’t necessarily mean the chat is down, so below the display we explain how to tell the difference between an outage, rate limits, and issues on your end.
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Outage vs Rate Limit: Three Messages People Confuse
“You’re out of messages until…” or a bar showing a time means you’ve hit your plan limit, not an outage; Claude counts usage in five-hour windows and makes you wait after you exhaust them. We covered the limits in Pro and Max in our article how much Claude costs. “Claude is at capacity” or a long wait without response means overload on Anthropic’s side; the status page usually shows “degraded performance” then. The error “Something went wrong” when uploading a file usually means your attachment is too large or in a format Claude can’t read, not an outage.
Status Green but Not Working for You: What We Check
Open a new conversation and send a single word; if it responds, the problem was with that specific thread (context too long). Log out and log back in, because some errors are just expired sessions. Check whether you’re on a VPN or in a country where Anthropic restricts access. Disable ad blockers and extensions on claude.ai. For Claude Code in the terminal, run claude --version and claude doctor, because the error can be on the installation side, not the server.
Where Else to Check
The official status page is status.claude.com (formerly status.anthropic.com). Our monitor with an archive of Claude outages from recent weeks is on the Claude status page, and a combined status of all AI tools is on the AI status page. When Claude is down and work can’t wait, we check whether ChatGPT is working or Gemini for the same task.
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How Long Do Claude Outages Last?
From our monitor’s archive: most incidents marked by Anthropic as “minor” last from fifteen minutes to two hours. Longer, partial degradations happen a few times per quarter.
Does an Outage Affect Claude Code Too?
Not always. Claude Code uses the API, so sometimes the chat works while the agent in the terminal returns errors, or vice versa. In the display above, the components are separated.
Does Anthropic Refund Money for Outages?
There are no automatic refunds for individual plans. API customers and enterprise plan subscribers have availability terms in their contracts.
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