Claude (Anthropic) outage on October 7, 2026: Issue with spend limits
Claude reported an incident affecting Claude (Anthropic) for 1 minute on 7 October 2026, from 21:23 to 21:23 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Claude
- Started
- 21:23
- 7 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 21:23
- 7 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- <1m
- 1 minute
- Impact
- -
- as rated by Claude
- Updates
- 1
- posted by Claude
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Claude
Issue with spend limits
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Official
Resolved
We have identified an issue which resulted in some organizations to be incorrectly paused for having reached their spend limit, resulting in refused requests on the Claude API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Security, and Claude Cowork. This is now resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Claude's public status page, status.claude.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test claude.ai from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Claude (Anthropic) status shows what our checks see right now.
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