Is Claude (Anthropic) Down Right Now?

The instant check tool above tests claude.ai live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Claude (Anthropic) being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL — including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website — as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

Yes, and it matters for diagnosing the problem correctly. Claude.ai (the consumer web chat), the Claude API (used by third-party apps and integrations), and Claude Code (the developer CLI) run on related infrastructure but can experience independent incidents — the API serving production traffic for other companies' products can be degraded while the consumer web app loads fine, or the reverse. Anthropic's official status page typically breaks incidents down by component for exactly this reason. If you're building on the API and claude.ai looks fine in your browser, that doesn't confirm the API itself is healthy — check the specific component you depend on.

Slow or partial responses (a reply that starts generating and then stalls, or takes far longer than usual) usually indicate high load on model-serving capacity rather than a full outage, and often resolve within minutes without any action needed. If it persists for an extended period, check Anthropic's official status page for an acknowledged incident, and confirm via an independent multi-location check whether the slowness is specific to your network path or affects the service broadly — a local network or DNS issue can also masquerade as "Claude is slow."