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Claude status page

Shares rank 4 of 8 uptime monitors by recommenders

People recommend its quick, honest incident updates and alert subscriptions. Critics say it can lag and mislead about specific models.

People recommend its quick, honest incident updates and alert subscriptions. Critics say it can lag and mislead about specific models.

9 people gave an opinion

recommend it
5
criticize it
4
approval share
56%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 2 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: not recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
  • Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.

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What people say about it

The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • Honest, well-regarded status page

    “one of the best status pages of any technology I use on a regular basis”

    Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update”

    “Looks like they redesigned the page though, so that's nice.”

    Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update”

    “I do respect Anthropic's honesty for their status page.”

    Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Claude.ai down”

Other uptime monitors people recommend

The four most recommended other uptime monitors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

Claude status page compared with 4 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
Uptime Kuma17289%9—Approved
Healthchecks.io120100%6—Approved
Updog60100%5——
Claude status pageThis page5456%2——
UpDown.io50100%4——
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What people said

8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“Bit of a misleading status page, if you click in you can see that grok 4.5 and 4.6 etc are totally down”

CriticizesComment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Claude outage – Resolved”

“one of the best status pages of any technology I use on a regular basis”

RecommendsComment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update”

“Looks like they redesigned the page though, so that's nice.”

RecommendsComment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update”

“I do respect Anthropic's honesty for their status page.”

RecommendsComment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Claude.ai down”

“Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow”

CriticizesComment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?”

“They should be much quicker, I would expect <5 minutes.”

CriticizesComment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Anthropic is Down”

“I checked their status page within 2 minutes of having issues and it was updated to show they had detected it.”

RecommendsComment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Elevated errors across many models”

“glad to see the status page - hit subscribe on updates”

RecommendsComment from 14 Dec 2025 in “Elevated errors across many models”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.