Claude Hit by Widespread Outage Even as It Tops Independent Leaderboards

Anthropic reported elevated errors across web, API, and Claude Code during a widespread service disruption — a reliability stumble that persists even as Claude clusters remain top-ranked.

Anthropic experienced a widespread outage, reporting elevated errors across web, API, and Claude Code, per @ivke2006. Outages that hit Claude Code are particularly painful because they take down active developer workflows, not just casual chat — a broken coding session mid-task is far more disruptive than a chatbot being briefly unavailable.

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