Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5

Incident Report for Claude

Postmortem

On January 14, 2026, users experienced errors when using Claude Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 due to a service deployment that temporarily reduced our serving capacity. We identified and rolled back the deployment, restored full capacity, and services returned to normal within approximately 4 hours. We are implementing safeguards to prevent similar deployment-related disruptions in the future.

Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 15:44 UTC

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 14:17 UTC

Update

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 14:06 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 13:31 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 12:41 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 11:22 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 10:46 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 10:24 UTC

Identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 10:16 UTC

Update

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 09:52 UTC

Monitoring

A fix is being rolled out and we are monitoring the results.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 09:34 UTC

Identified

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 08:45 UTC

Investigating

We are currently investigating this issue.
Posted Jan 14, 2026 - 08:34 UTC
This incident affected: claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), and Claude Code.