Is Claude down as users of AI chatbot report issues, what’s the latest?

Users of AI chatbot Claude are currently experiencing issues with it. At 06:04 UTC Claude responded to reports of elevated errors on Opus 4.6 via their website and wrote: “We are currently investigating the issue.” A further update was given at 06:39 UTC which read: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”

At the time of writing, the latest update was shared at 09:33 UTC which read: “We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.” Downdetector has reported issues with AI chatbot Claude and one user took to Downdetector’s website and one wrote two hours ago that “taking longer than usual, attempt 5.”

One user took to Reddit three hours ago and wrote: “Hi everyone,

“Claude has stopped responding to my messages, showing messages like "pondering by", it is currently on it's 4 attempt. Anything going on?”

One person wrote in response three hours ago that “Down in Qatar too, I think its worldwide.”

Two hours ago a Reddit user wrote: “yeah its down for me as well "Due to unexpected capacity constraints, claude is unable to respond to your message",” whilst someone else wrote: “All these big shot hirings and can't even keep a platform up.”

Four days ago Claude shared that they had upgraded Claude Opus to a new version: Claude Opus 4.8. and said that “It builds on Opus 4.7 with improvements across benchmarks, and is a more effective collaborator. It’s available today for the same price.

“Opus 4.8 launches alongside several new features. Users on claude.ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude puts into a task. Claude Code has a new “dynamic workflows” feature that allows it to tackle very large-scale problems. And fast mode for Opus 4.8—where the model can work at 2.5× the speed—is now three times cheaper than it was for previous mode.”

At the beginning of March, there were also issues with Claude. At 11:49 UTC on March 2, Claude reported on their website that "We are currently investigating this issue.” This was in response to reports of elevated issues. At 12:06, they said: “We are continuing to investigate this issue.”

At 12:21 UTC, Claude wrote: We have identified that the Claude API is working as intended. The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths.” At 13:22, Claude gave an update and said: "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”

Claude updated users at 13:37 UTC and said: “We have discovered that some API methods are not working and we are investigating.”