# AI API outages on August 14, 2026 (UTC)

Measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions. An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from 2+ regions at once and no other provider failed in the same minutes.

## Was the OpenAI API down on August 14, 2026?

Yes, measured. 2 outage(s) attributed to OpenAI: host probes failed from up to 4 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 01:25 UTC, at least 45 minutes observed in total. OpenAI's status page lists nothing that day.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 00:50-01:05 | host probes | sa-east us-central | >=15 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 01:25-01:55 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=30 min | 8 | provider_outage |
| 02:20-04:45 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=145 min | 28 | unattributed |
| 05:00-05:30 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=30 min | 6 | unattributed |
| 06:10-06:35 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=25 min | 7 | unattributed |
| 07:20-08:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=50 min | 10 | unattributed |
| 08:40-09:15 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=36 min | 9 | unattributed |
| 09:50-11:00 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=70 min | 10 | unattributed |
| 11:45-11:50 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 12:30-12:45 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=15 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 13:05-13:25 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner us-central | >=20 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 14:30-16:35 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=126 min | 23 | unattributed |
| 17:00-17:00 | host probes | eu-hetzner us-central | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 17:15-17:30 | host probes | eu-hetzner us-central | >=14 min | 3 | provider_outage |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/openai

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on August 14, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic's own status page opened 4 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 00:36 UTC: Service disruption on Claude Code on the web and related services (minor)
- self-reported 07:58 UTC: Issues reaching status.claude.com (none)
- self-reported 20:30 UTC: Service disruption on Claude services (major)
- self-reported 23:57 UTC: Elevated errors for Claude Fable 5 (major)

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/anthropic

## Was the yi-01ai API down on August 14, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of yi-01ai coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above yi-01ai and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09:05-09:10 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=5 min | 2 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/yi-01ai

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-14 · CC BY 4.0