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Public story · 2026-08-24 · high
Three Claude models had elevated errors for two hours 46 minutes on August 24, and one user lost 23% of a limit to three failed prompts.
Why now: The status page shows the incident resolved by mid-morning August 24, but neither it nor the threads say if lost usage gets restored.
Anthropic's status page logged elevated errors across three Claude models for two hours 46 minutes on August 24, per a discussion thread on r/ClaudeAI. Failed requests during the outage still counted against the five-hour usage window every Claude plan runs on.
The errors affected Mythos 5, Fable 5 and Opus 5 starting at 04:50 UTC, with Opus 5 and Fable 5 stabilizing first. Anthropic marked the incident resolved at 08:30 UTC. That thread became the hub where users tracked the incident as it unfolded.
A separate thread from August 24 described three prompts that each returned a "server is busy" error. Together they burned 23% of one user's usage limit before any response came back.
Until Anthropic exempts failed requests from that five-hour window, every outage costs users quota whether or not they get an answer back. Neither thread reports whether Anthropic credits that lost usage back, and the status page doesn't say either.
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