Claude Down Hits Opus 4.6 and 4.7 With Elevated Errors

Claude down on Thursday evening, May 14, 2026, after Claude Status said it was seeing elevated error rates on Opus 4.6 and 4.7. The company said it was still working through the issue. For users trying to get work done inside Claude, that means the problem was active in the moment, not just a brief alert after the fact.

Opus 4.6 and 4.7

The specific versions named were Opus 4.6 and 4.7. That narrows the problem to two model lines instead of the whole service, which matters for anyone trying to tell whether a failure is broad or tied to a particular release.

Claude Status on Thursday evening

Claude Status used the phrase "elevated error rates" on Thursday evening, May 14, 2026. That wording signals that requests were failing more often than normal while the platform was being watched and worked on.

The company also said, "We are continuing to investigate this issue,". That leaves the practical question in place for users: keep retrying, or wait until the service settles down, since no fix was described in the facts provided here.

What users knew then

The clearest reading for customers was simple. Claude was down, the affected models were Opus 4.6 and 4.7, and the issue was still under investigation on Thursday evening. If your work depended on those models, the immediate reality was a service interruption with no resolution spelled out yet.