Global Anthropic outage leaves Claude without answers

Published on April 29, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

Anthropic's services, including its flagship chatbot Claude, suffered a global outage affecting claude.ai, desktop and mobile applications, the API, and Claude Code. macOS users reported connection errors, while the API experienced partial failures with high error rates. Only Claude for Government and Claude Console remained operational.

A computer screen displays the Claude logo in gray, with a connection error message. A mobile phone on the left reflects the same failure.

API and Claude Code fail, developers left without tools 🔧

The outage directly impacted professional clients integrating the Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 models through the API, generating high error rates and partially inaccessible services. Claude Code, the agentic tool for developer workflows, also experienced issues, leaving programmers without their assistant for coding and debugging tasks. The dependence on these tools was exposed.

Claude takes a break, users too 😅

It seems Claude decided to take a day off without notice, leaving thousands staring at a blank screen. Developers, who already blindly trusted Claude Code to avoid thinking, had to remember how to write code without help. Meanwhile, macOS users saw the error message and thought: finally something that works, not connecting.