Claude.ai Is Down
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·October 31, 2025qwertox
imalerba
Used this page to show the actual error. As usual, everything was green on the status page while nothing was working
fainpul
This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.
mewpmewp2
Non-serious answer: I'll go for a walk.
Serious answer: I can write code manually, but it feels like a waste of time. I'll just go for a walk to synthesize my ideas if a service was down, and I don't think not writing actual code for a day is a huge problem. So focus on health and maybe even talk to humans.
mayhaps
As a technical ... I don't know what to call myself anymore; not a product manager but not a developer nor engineer.
The answer: audibly swear out loud.
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_DeadFred_
Wetware interface. You are the wetware interface between the company and the AI it uses.
erikbye
Doubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way:
What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down?
AWS? GCP? Azure?
Or whatever Atlassian product they're using.
Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.
jasonvorhe
If they're smart, they just switch to ppq.ai or an openrouter provider where they can purchase prepaid tokens from various providers with many alternative models available.
roman_soldier
Switch to Grok or vice versa (I have Pro on both), or use any one of the other free tier LLM's (Gemini, ChatGPT etc)
cjr
Switch to codex? :)
uh_uh
Exactly, these agentic coding tools which operate on your codebase present on your own disk are a lot more fungible than most SaaS.
ares623
Even worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud provider.
block_dagger
Same as if GitHub were down over the last decade.
sometimes_all
It's usually down about at least once a day for me anyway. Previously it used to be down during beginning and end of US work times. Now that they've geographically spread out their servers, it's down at random times instead.
TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of thought process to AI.
belevme
My auth token expired and when I type /login in Claude Code it leads me to a webpage showing:
OAuth Request Failed Internal server error
rgazeredo
Until it's back up and running, something I did that worked for me was access the web version of Claude Code, link the repository there, and ask them to implement something. After they implemented it, they enabled the option to click the "Open in CLI" button, allowing me to use Claude Code CLI from the terminal again.
mr_mitm
And it's expiring a lot lately. I used to go weeks without it expiring, yesterday it expired twice in one day.
adamhurl
This has 100% ruined my morning! -_- I tried many different ways to get in, I'm using claude in terminal in cursor.
Fix for me: Hopefully will work for you guys too, I logged out of claude, restarted cursor, used the anthropic console login method instead of normal login, when you click the link it gives you an option to signin with chat credentials instead, there it did not work, I pressed the link given in claude a few times and kept trying, finally I was given a pastable code, this took a while to be accepted in terminal but now is logged in.
hope it works for someone else aswell!!
Mariancbn
I just managed to log in to claude code. You have to spam the login when you recive the screen with authorize press on it multiple times. you will recive errors than try again i have tried like 70 times and it started finnaly
epop
it worked for me as well, thanks
lxs3
haha worked for me!
lucode
they marked as resolved but is not Resolved This incident has been resolved. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Update We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Posted 1 hour ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:46 UTC Identified The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC Update We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC Investigating We are currently investigating this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC This incident affected: claude.ai, platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com), and Claude API (api.anthropic.com). https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g
idonotknowwhy
Ah so it's not just me. What's a good backup these days? Gemini? GLM?
Mariancbn
try cursor with auto its more stupid but does the work
idonotknowwhy
Ended up going with Z.AI because it's a drop-in replacement. Back in business for now.
lxs3
[dead]
phgn
Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token very few days?? It's so annoying.
sho
5 hours in and I'm pretty disappointed in Anthropic's response to this. Looking at their status page you'd think everything was OK, the downtime was only 37 minutes, a fix is in place and they're "monitoring" - that's total BS. I can't even log in. I can forgive downtime, we've all been there, but I really don't like when companies try to smooth it over with little self-serving minimizations of the disruption.. while it's still in progress!
I use Claude Code for programming work, but I choose OpenAI anywhere customer-facing and this cute little outage is making me feel better about that with every passing minute. NOT cool.
Aeolun
Yeah, their API's are returning me a grand total of 1 token per second now or so. It's...
jakub_jo
Its now phrased with "Major Outage".
> Elevated errors on claude.ai
> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:18 UTC
> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC
delaminator
cant even log into console
https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)
tooa
Claude will return soon Claude is currently experiencing a temporary service disruption. We’re working on it, please check back soon.
1dom
Wow, that is a lot of not-green for a 30 day status page.
miningape
Was wondering why we haven't had any fires today - it's nice having some calm on a Friday. Could we make this a weekly thing?
fred_
Same here. Just seeing "Rate exceeded." when trying to access https://claude.ai/new.
alastairr
yep, same for me and unable to use the API either
arjie
I must be lucky. Status page says Elevated Error Rates for the model as well, but I'm chugging along. Praise be the West Coast shard :)
idonotknowwhy
Yeah you'll be right as long as your oauth token doesn't expire!
delaminator
Claude code is working, but the login system is not working
So enjoy your extra capacity :)
roman_soldier
Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both Claude and Grok so just switch between them.
Proper link would be https://status.claude.com