Anthropic is currently dealing with an active incident causing elevated error rates across its core products — Claude.ai, the Claude API, and Claude Code. The outage was officially acknowledged on April 15, 2026, with a status update going live just after 15:57 UTC.
What's happening
The incident, tracked under ID f00h6l76tsjs, covers all three major surfaces: the consumer-facing Claude.ai web app, the API that developers and businesses depend on, and Claude Code — Anthropic's agentic coding tool. That's a wide blast radius, meaning the impact spans casual users, enterprise integrations, and engineering workflows alike.
Why it matters
When errors spike across the API simultaneously with the consumer product, it typically signals something systemic rather than a frontend glitch. Developers running production workloads on Claude's API have limited fallback options, and Claude Code users mid-session are effectively blocked. Any prolonged outage here carries real cost for teams that have built tightly around Anthropic's stack.
What to watch
Anthropic's live status page at status.claude.com is the authoritative source for resolution updates. The r/ClaudeAI performance megathread is also aggregating user reports in real time. No root cause or estimated resolution time has been published as of the initial status post.