Has Claude fallen? Thousands of people report problems with Anthropic’s AI chatbot amid widespread outage
On Monday afternoon, thousands of Claude users reported problems with Anthropic’s AI chatbot. per down detectora platform that tracks such outages based on user reports. At the height of the outage on Monday, as many as 6,000 people reported problems at Claude.
Charts on Down Detector show the outage began around 2:48 p.m. ET on Monday and peaked around 3:18 p.m., with about 5,500 reports. However, by 3:46 p.m. ET, the number of reports had dropped to around 500.
As a result, the outage lasted about an hour Monday afternoon. Below is a chart of outages reported to Claude by users on Monday afternoon.
On DownDetector, 50% of users reported problems with the Clause chat, 33% reported problems with the Claude app, and 12% complained about problems with the Claude website.
This story is being updated.