Claude, the AI agent from Anthropic, appeared to face issues on Tuesday. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 5,000 people facing issues with Claude.
As per Downdetector, most people faced issues with Claude chat, with 44 percent complaining about that. People also faced issues with Claude code and the app too.
‘Claude code down’ complaints flood social media
Many on social media complained that ‘Claude code’ was down. “Claude Code is down, basically a snow day,” one person wrote. Another added “Claude Code went down a few minutes ago. 500 Internal Server Error across the board…”.
Yet another person said “CLAUDE IS CRASHING MAYBE DOWN AGAIN. what do i do now ?”. On Downdetector too, people expressed their disgruntlement with the Claude chatbot being down, showing how many people rely on it for everyday tasks. “API Error 500 . Just when i was almost done vibe-coding a site to detect when claude was down.” one person wrote.
Another added “can soeone actually tell me why they have issues so much? is it overrun servers or are they just breaking it over and over and fixing on the fly.” Yet another person said “both claude and cowork down for me.”
How to fix Claude API error 500?
Many users appeared to be getting an API error 500.
“Claude Down?? API Error: 500 {“type”:”error”,”error”:{“type”:”api_error”,”message”:”Internal server error”},”request_id”:”req_011CZ9EZWq6y5UfubJ1t2v9M”}”, one person wrote on X.
An API 500 error means there is an internal server error on the Anthropic side meaning there is no fix on the user side which is possible. It is usually triggered by transient issue, an outage, or a problem with the configuration of the request.
Claude or Anthropic are yet to release a statement about the outage. The cause for the outage also remains unknown.
(This story is being updated)
