# AI API outages on August 20, 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 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 (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08:50-08:58 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=8 min | 4 | provider_outage |
| 09:15-09:15 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo sa-east us-central | <5 min | 3 | provider_outage |
| 09:40-09:48 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=8 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 10:05-10:05 | requests to nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free | ap-tokyo sa-east | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## 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 18:32 UTC: Elevated errors on Google connectors (minor)
- self-reported 19:16 UTC: Elevated errors on requests to multiple models (major)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-20 · CC BY 4.0