# AI API outages on August 18, 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 sarvam API down on August 18, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to sarvam: host probes failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 05:15 UTC, each shorter than one 5-minute probe cycle.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05:15-05:15 | host probes | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the yi-01ai API down on August 18, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to yi-01ai: host probes failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 15:30 UTC, at least 10 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15:30-15:40 | host probes | ap-tokyo us-central | >=10 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on August 18, 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 16:20 UTC: Degraded performance for multiple models (minor)

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

## Was the baseten API down on August 18, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of baseten was seen from two or more regions at once. baseten's own status page opened 3 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 16:27 UTC: Elevated errors for moonshotai/Kimi-K3 for US-pinned traffic on Model APIs. **Dedicated In (minor)
- self-reported 17:24 UTC: Elevated errors for moonshotai/Kimi-K3 for US-pinned traffic on Model APIs. **Dedicated In (minor)
- self-reported 19:04 UTC: Elevated errors for moonshotai/Kimi-K3 for US-pinned traffic on Model APIs. **Dedicated In (minor)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-18 · CC BY 4.0