# AI API outages on August 17, 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 Claude API (Anthropic) down on August 17, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 13:56 UTC: Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 (minor)

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

## Was the baseten API down on August 17, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of baseten was seen from two or more regions at once. baseten's own status page opened 2 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 13:11 UTC: Metrics degradation in UI and API. **Inference not affected** (minor)
- self-reported 16:56 UTC: Elevated errors for moonshotai/Kimi-K3 for US-pinned traffic (minor)

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

## Was the nebius API down on August 17, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of nebius was seen from two or more regions at once. nebius's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 11:00 UTC: Issues logging to the Management Console (minor)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-17 · CC BY 4.0