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Claude outage: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5.1

Claude reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 25, 2026, 08:17 UTC. It was resolved after 32 min.

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Oct 25, 2026, 08:17 UTC
started
Oct 25, 2026, 08:49 UTC
resolved
32 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Claude API (api.anthropic.com)
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork
  • claude.ai

Timeline

updates from Claude's status page ↗
  1. resolvedOct 25, 2026, 08:49 UTC

    The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 01:08 PT / 08:08 UTC to 01:29 PT / 08:29 UTC.

  2. monitoringOct 25, 2026, 08:30 UTC

    A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery.

  3. identifiedOct 25, 2026, 08:17 UTC

    We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

  4. investigatingOct 25, 2026, 08:17 UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5.1. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 25, 2026, 08:19 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 25, 2026, 08:34 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does Claude have incidents?

Claude reported 45 incidents in the last 90 days, 26 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 13m. See Claude's uptime and incident history

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