Claude.ai Currently Down, API Errors Elevated — April 28, 2026
An automatic system status notification posted to r/ClaudeAI indicates that Claude.ai is currently unavailable and the API is seeing elevated error rates. The update was triggered within 2 minutes of an official status change on status.claude.com at 2026-04-28T17:51:36.000Z.
Incident Details
- Service affected: Claude.ai (web interface) and Claude API (elevated errors)
- Status page: https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w
- Auto-report source: Reddit bot
/u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot
Users can track resolution progress on the official status page linked above. For community discussion and real-time reports, the r/ClaudeAI Performance Megathread is also active.
This appears to be a broad outage affecting both the consumer-facing chat and the API. Developers relying on the API for production workloads should monitor the status page and consider fallback strategies. No ETA for resolution has been provided at the time of this posting.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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