Claude Code Down

theahura 80 points 72 comments April 06, 2026
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1se1p30/broken_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1se1vn1/oauth_api_key_expiring_daily/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1se1ur5/500_error_or_timeout_when_trying_to_reauthorize/ Currently nothing on the status: https://status.claude.com/

Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

rishabhaiover

OAuth is failing, I can't login via claude code.

kevinwang

Still down for me. (And still nothing on the status page!)

ksajadi

Failures all over Code and Chat here too (London UK) and status is showing all green

hgoel

Here's hoping they can get it sorted quick. Hopefully these are just growing pains and not indicative of a GitHub style inability to achieve stability.

wojciem

What are decent alternatives to ClaudeCode?

Lucasoato

The real issue isn’t that Claude is down, it can happen. The problem is that the status page doesn’t report anything, even if it has been impossible to log in during the past hour. Status pages should be trusted, connected to real metrics and not fake pr stuff :/ EDIT: Now they show the issue, kudos to them! Transparency is the key to build trust. No body expects a perfect service, thanks Claude team for your efforts.

CoolGuySteve

I'm finding qwen 27b is comparable to sonnet but my self hosting has about 5 more 9s than whatever Anthropic's vibe coding. I also don't have to worry about the quality of the model I'm being served from day to day. Probably the most damning fact about LLMs is just how poorly written their parent companies' systems are.

sdoering

I am currently - and (this post is up 25 minutes as of now) have been using it without noticeable degradation over the last few hours. Edit: But the status page - at least as of now - is clearly communicating elevated error rates.

buildbot

Not that it is the best indicator, but downdector is showing many services with spikes at exactly the same time as Claude Codes issues began.

mistic92

I don't have any issues

rvz

Claude isn't down. He's on vacation for today and took an extra day off after the weekend. He'll be back to work by tomorrow.

chermi

Yup displays as an "auth" issue to me. Just a nice reminder that my original plan was to be provider agnostic but everything was working so well with cc I lost sight lol.

enraged_camel

Claude Code inside the desktop app works for me.

user-

I am a believer that everyone should have their main flow be model/provider agnostic at a high level. I often run out of claude tokens and use GLM-5 as backup. https://gist.github.com/ManveerBhullar/7ed5c01a0850d59188632... simple script i use to toggle which backend my claude code is using

lovecode007

Yup for me too - VSC Claude is def down and not working

lovecode007

Def down, keeps saying internal server error

jgrahamc

Here in my corner of Europe it seems to be working fine.

kwertyoowiyop

For older programmers: this is like when Stack Overflow would go down. For really old programmers: this is like when Computer Literacy bookstore was closed.

ChrisArchitect

Link for up top: https://status.claude.com/incidents/vfjv5x6qkd4j

rishabhaiover

The downtime forces me to relook at my utterly dependent relationship with agentic assistance. The inertia to begin engaging with my code is higher than it has ever been.

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