India, May 15 -- Claude Code was down for thousands of users on Thursday and a status update was provided by the company even as users lodged complaints. As per Downdetector, over 1700 people were facing issues at the time of writing.

As per the site, most appeared to be facing problems with Claude Code, though some also showed problems with Claude Chat. "Claude code down?" one asked on X. Others shared screenshots of the outage.

Another person added "Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 down again. Elevated error rates, Anthropic investigating as of 00:18 UTC."

Meanwhile Claude shared an update on the Status Page. "We are currently investigating this issue," it initially wrote, before adding "We are continuing to investigate this issue." It noted ...