Claude appeared to be down on Thursday evening, May 14, 2026, after Claude Status reported elevated error rates on Opus 4.6 and 4.7. The company said it was continuing to investigate the issue.
The update pointed to a platform problem affecting the Opus 4.6 and 4.7 models, but it did not say how many users were affected or whether the disruption was tied to one region or a broader outage. It also did not say when the problem began.
For people trying to use Claude at the time, the question was immediate and practical: whether the service would keep failing or recover quickly enough to keep work moving. The company’s statement offered no fix yet, only confirmation that engineers were still working on it.
That leaves the status of the service unsettled for now. The only firm detail is that elevated error rates were reported on Thursday evening and the issue was still under investigation, which means users had no timetable for restoration and no assurance that the problem would not continue into the night.
