Is Claude slow right now?
Compare the current hour with a normal week: if it’s peak time, slower responses are expected. If it isn’t, check Anthropic’s status page.
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Anthropic status
Source: status.claude.com ↗Checking…
- Claude Code—
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Recent incidents affecting Claude
- MinorDelayed credits on the Claude PlatformOct 1, 04:20 PM UTC · 6 h 16 min
- MajorElevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude APISep 29, 02:21 PM UTC · 2 h 6 min
- MajorElevated errors for multiple modelsSep 22, 12:57 AM UTC · 1 h 38 min
- MajorIntermittent error spikes for Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1Sep 15, 09:48 AM UTC · 1 h 26 min
- MajorElevated errors for Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1Sep 11, 02:19 PM UTC · 17 min
- MinorElevated latency on the Claude API for some usersSep 10, 09:43 PM UTC · 1 h 41 min
- MajorDegraded functionality for Claude Cowork on WindowsSep 10, 03:54 PM UTC · 99 h 21 min
- MajorElevated errors for multiple modelsSep 3, 01:26 PM UTC · 2 h 57 min
What to do, step by step
- Check for incidents on status.claude.com, which covers Claude, the API and Claude Code.
- Look at the current hour on the map: weekday 5–11 AM Pacific is the busiest window.
- Tell the errors apart.
529 overloadedmeans Anthropic is temporarily out of capacity — retrying in a minute usually works. A429or a usage-limit message means your plan’s limit is used up, and retrying won’t help until the window resets. - Switch models with
/model: when one model is overloaded, another may respond faster. - Move heavy work to quiet hours and stick to short loops for now.
When incidents usually happen
Hours when Anthropic’s status page had an open incident for Claude, the API or Claude Code — in your time zone. If the current hour is a bright cell, slow replies and errors are expected. Synced hourly.
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