AI API outages on August 20, 2026
UTC day · measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions · method
On August 20, 2026 (UTC) our probes attributed 2 outage(s) to 1 provider(s): OpenRouter API: 2. Providers’ own status pages opened 2 entries (Anthropic).
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Was the OpenRouter API down on August 20, 2026?
Yes, measured. 2 outage(s) attributed to OpenRouter: requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free failed from up to 4 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 08:50 UTC, at least 8 minutes observed in total.
| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration | Failed probes | Verdict | Error |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:50–08:58 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | 4 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥8 min | 4 | provider outage | The read operation timed out |
| 09:15–09:15 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | 3 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | <5 min | 3 | provider outage | The read operation timed out |
| 09:40–09:48 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | 4 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), Europe (Germany), South America (São Paulo), US (Central) | ≥8 min | 4 | shared with 1 other provider(s) — not attributed | The read operation timed out |
| 10:05–10:05 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | 2 of 4: Asia (Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) | <5 min | 2 | shared with 1 other provider(s) — not attributed | The read operation timed out |
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Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on August 20, 2026?
Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic’s own status page opened 2 entries that day (self-reported, listed below).
Self-reported on Anthropic’s status page, not verified by our probes:
- minor Elevated errors on Google connectors · resolved Aug 20, 19:01 UTC
- major Elevated errors on requests to multiple models · resolved Aug 20, 19:42 UTC
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41 single-region failure(s) were also recorded that day (yi-01ai 24, google 5, friendli 3, sensenova 3, sambanova 2, nebius 1, doubao 1, baichuan 1, iflytek 1). A failure seen from one region cannot be separated from a problem on that network path, so none of them is called an outage.
How is an outage told apart from a network problem?
Each provider is probed every five minutes from 4 independent regions. A failure is attributed to the provider only when it is seen from two or more regions at once and no other provider fails in the same minutes; a failure shared with other providers has a cause above all of them and is not blamed on anyone. Durations are lower bounds: we see the first and last failed probe, not the real start and end. Status-page entries are the provider’s own words, shown next to the measurement, not instead of it.
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