Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5

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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.