Claude outage
62 comments
·October 31, 2025sometimes_all
danielbln
I spend 10h/day in Claude Code and I don't remember the last time it was unavailable to me, maybe a couple of months ago? I suspect this is highly dependant on location and timezone, but at least from within Central Europe it has been smooth sailing (apart from this morning...)
CapsAdmin
I didn't even know they had a status page. Claude (with pro subscription) is often so unreliable with regards to connectivity and performance that I'm looking for something more predictable.
It randomly fails halfway through a response, sometimes very slow to start, hangs for long periods during a response, and so on.
The Claude chat interface can also slow down with long sessions. I sometimes use Claude code which is better, but I'm not a huge fan of terminal interfaces. I'm aware of third party frontends, but I believe those require api access which I don't like for personal use.
siva7
Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the time 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App. Claude and Chatgpt are way more reliable.
SXX
It almost never fails via AI Studio though. Also I doubt fails you see really have anything to do with LLM itself, capacity or backend.
It's just Google own UIs and apps are almost comically bad.
siva7
I use Gemini over web app and mobile app. Both are very unreliable. Anthropic and openai don't have more resources than google but still get it right most of the time - the quality of product development is not even in a similar league
nurettin
For me it isn't the API timeouts, but tool calls to update files fails most of the time.
cpursley
Gemini is embarrassingly bad. It outright doesn’t work. I mean, it actually goes out and does stuff but it’s 100% of the time random. Even third-party forks of it work better (like Qwen Code), which is just wild.
ladidahh
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi... , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use case
swader999
My go to is "are you stuck" for some reason that seems to snap it awake, it feels like it takes offense to the question and gets back on track.
On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to upgrade and get some top rate therapy...
pimeys
Snaps awake from the sleep and starts talking about how they used to wear onions on their belt.
I love it when they take an offense.
huflungdung
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belevme
OAuth handshake still gives internal server errors when you try to /login from Claude Code
AgentK20
Still seeing issues on the OAuth flow despite a "a fix [having] been implemented". Looks like whatever happened probably trashed the session database since it's forcing Claude Code to re-auth.
jimkleiber
Login on claude.ai seems to be back online, but login through Claude Code via OAuth is still down for me. So I'm twiddling my thumbs.
steveharman
I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude Code if they sign up again.
Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.
Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in account activations / use?
Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)
cmiles8
All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other issues at least once a day, which would be a “service degradation” by the standards of normal apps.
trvz
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run smollm2:135m-instruct-q2_K --verbosebrabel
Use llama.cpp or llamafile , ollama just adds weight and does too much magic.
tidbeck
What kind of tasks do you use it for?
jryan49
Has anyone else pretty much stopped using AI at this point? The only thing I use it for to help generate README's or Javadocs, and then heavily edit them. I had it in my workflow and it burned me so many times I just went back to google and stackoverflow.
LogicHound
I use it to generate me example code e.g. how do I do <thing> in <programming language> using <library>.
I've also had it suggest solutions e.g. "This C++/OpenGL code doesn't run in wayland can you suggest some solutions".
Other stuff like generating tests is hit and miss.
M4v3R
I'm sure some people did, by I personally use them every day - for coding tasks, for language translation, for research, current events (Grok is really good at this thanks to being connected to the X real-time data), for day-to-day questions (like my daughter asking me what's that Pokemon called) and so on.
snowfield
I use it quite often. But just small stuff like simple automations, userscripts, docker config that sort of thing
dataengineer56
If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime child profile picture.
a5c11
What was the question like? "How to print a decimal in C"? Valuable questions aren't downvoted. If you ask about something that could be found on the first Google page, then no surprise you are being downvoted.
sanex
You sound like an SO moderator
dataengineer56
I asked a novel question, well-written and clear, and a "subject matter expert" decided it was too similar to another question (it wasn't), so they defaced it, downvoted it and closed it.
Stack Overflow is dying, it's extremely difficult to get new questions through. Even if they survive moderation then they're unlikely to get answers.
dim13
I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.
Hamuko
Never really started. Really the only properly good AI thing that I’ve used is AI autocompletions, which are generally higher quality than the traditional ones that I’ve used. Not that it’s perfect and at least the one in Xcode has hallucinated on me.
remnv
Still got issues with the reauth, i’ll try glm for now
htrp
back to their 2 9's of reliability
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.