The company also updated in a statement on their Status Page that various models were facing problems. Anthropic’s AI Claude was reportedly down for thousands of users on September 21. Many complained about the issues online.
We will provide an update as soon as possible,” they noted . The site that tracks outages across the internet noted that many were facing issues with Claude Code. “Claude is DOWN. Does this mean we are getting the new OPUS model soon?,” one asked . it has now fallen at the time of writing While Grok was showing a spike in user issues on Downdetector.
“We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 1600 people facing issues.
Another added “Claude is down, even Grok is down. is SpaceXAI severs down?”.
Claude is down due to errors that Anthropic has identified. Currently, it is not known what led to the Claude Code being down for many users. Thus, user-end fixes are not likely to work. However, even after the status page indicates that the issue is resolved, and one continues to face troubles, there are some changes that can be made.
Anthropic said they had ‘identified the cause’ but did not specify what it was.
