# AI API outages on August 31, 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 31, 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 17:23 UTC: Degraded performance on claude.ai (minor)
- self-reported 19:21 UTC: Degraded performance on claude.ai and Claude Code (minor)

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

## Was the baseten API down on August 31, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of baseten was seen from two or more regions at once. baseten's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 06:38 UTC: Elevated inference 500s for models in a single US-based cluster (major)

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-08-31 · CC BY 4.0