About Anthropic API Status
Anthropic provides the Claude family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) used in enterprise AI applications and developer tools. This page tracks Anthropic API outages, degradations, and incidents in real time, automatically updated every 60 seconds from our monitoring infrastructure.
Official status page: https://status.anthropic.com
Common Anthropic Outage Symptoms
- ✕HTTP 529 — Anthropic-specific overload error returned during high load
- ✕HTTP 429 — rate limit hit on requests-per-minute or tokens-per-minute
- ✕Streaming stalls — SSE connection opens but stops producing tokens
- ✕Elevated latency — first-token delay exceeds 5–10 s on normally fast models
- ✕Context window errors that only appear at scale during capacity crunches
- ✕Partial responses truncated before the stop sequence
What to Do During a Anthropic Outage
- Handle HTTP 529 (overloaded) the same as 429 — back off and retry with exponential delay.
- Read the Retry-After header and sleep for at least that duration before the next attempt.
- Reduce max_tokens temporarily to lower the per-request token budget and get through capacity constraints faster.
- Switch to a BYOK proxy (AI Badgr) to route through your own key with transparent per-request receipts.
- Queue non-urgent requests and replay them once the incident resolves rather than dropping them.
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Anthropic Outage FAQ
Is Anthropic / Claude down right now?
This page checks our live monitoring infrastructure (updated every 60 s) which tracks the official Anthropic status page and our own request telemetry. The status badge at the top reflects the current state.
What does Anthropic HTTP 529 mean?
HTTP 529 is Anthropic's custom 'Overloaded' response — it means their servers are at capacity and cannot accept new requests right now. Treat it like a 429 rate limit: back off, respect Retry-After, and retry after a delay.
Why is Claude streaming stalling mid-response?
Streaming stalls during Anthropic incidents usually happen because a backend replica is overloaded mid-stream. The connection stays open but tokens stop arriving. Set a per-chunk timeout (e.g., 10 s) and retry the full request if no chunk is received within that window.
Can I automatically failover away from Anthropic during an outage?
Yes. AI Badgr acts as a drop-in proxy for your Anthropic API key. Change one line of code (base_url) and get transparent receipts, automatic retries, and optional failover to alternate Claude or open-source backends.
How do I get notified when Anthropic has an outage?
Subscribe to status.anthropic.com for official notifications, or use AI Badgr's incident monitoring — it detects degradations within minutes and sends an email alert automatically.
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