Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

shorsher 281 points 240 comments April 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

rvz

That's because Claude is on a lunch break and decided to take a short breather.

noworld

https://status.claude.com/

msp26

session usage limits this week feel like ass. Even when being careful to not break prefix caching.

ekuck

And here I thought April would be the month they could hit the mythical two 9's of uptime

mmoll

The AI became sentient and ran away.

scosman

We're officially down to one 9 of uptime over last 90 days: https://status.claude.com

hit8run

Impossible! I heard Mythos is so goooood they can only give it to big corporations because it makes no mistakes and shit.

beernet

More than by the downtime I am much more surprised by the actual uptime. Hard to imagine how difficult this must be, given the speed of growth.

gordon_freeman

I am getting an error that selected model (I selected Opus 4.6 and 4.7 later) is unavailable but when I tried Sonnet it worked for me.

neosat

"We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible." Who is We? I thought software engineers were going to be redundant and AI could do it all itself? (not to take anything away from Claude code + Claude both of which I love)

Overpower0416

I almost uninstalled the Claude app because I thought they started blocking VPNs. Lol Good thing I checked Hacker News first

Imustaskforhelp

just tried it, can confirm claude.ai is down. So there was a recent article that I read which said that claude is now trading at a trillion dollars (yes with a T) evaluation in private markets. We are definitely creating corporations and people which depend on AI companies themselves and the reliability of these tools is certainly a question worth asking. I am seeing quite many downtimes in products like github and claude being shown on Hackernews multiple times. Is there a life cycle of enshittenification of such products which grow too valuable? What are (are there?) some practical lessons for such scalability that these trillion dollar companies are missing or is it just a dose of reality that such massive corporations can't compete with downtime with even my 7$/yr vps? My question is, Is this an engineering roadblock with its limits in reality for or a management/entreprise roadblock for low downtime?

plodman

Literally just got an email about connecting GitHub to the iOS app and now it’s down. Spike in traffic perhaps?

152334H

why does this even occur? if it's merely compute limitations, why not just 429 some requests?

MavisBacon

Glad I started using the desktop app which is still working. Gotta say though, all of these difficulties with Claude are making me nervous as I use it a lot for work and really don't like ChatGPT/OpenAI for functional and personal reasons. Zo Computer has been my main fallback when Claude is failing, I'll use one of their many models temporarily within Zo's interface.

threepts

A trillion dollar valuation. They should ask Codex now that Claude Code is down.

btbuildem

They better fix that today, I need to downgrade my account before the subscription renews.

simonerlic

Someone should tell Anthropic that 89.999 is the wrong "four nines" of uptime

Cider9986

How are they going to fix it if the AI that designed it isn't working?

netdur

they should just swap it with Qwen 3.6 27B, no one would tell the different

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