API and service
Anthropic: status and incident history today
Anthropic Status shows no open incidents right now.
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Status now
No open incidents or maintenance right now.
34+ incidents in the last 90 days (17 major). Most recent major: “Elevated errors for Claude Opus 5.5” (2026-10-06). Consider retries, timeouts and a fallback path for this dependency. Not counted: 3 notices marked no impact.
Production checklist
Anthropic production checklist: 5 checks before launch
- Must do: Call the API from your server only; never ship the key to clients
- Should do: Set a spend limit, and limits per workspace
- Should do: Treat model output as untrusted input
Alternatives
OpenAI GPT
Industry-leading large language models (GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo)
Strengths
- State-of-the-art performance on many tasks
- Large plugin and integration ecosystem
Trade-offs
- Rate limits on API calls
- Data privacy concerns for some use cases
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI model family
Strengths
- Native multimodal (text, image, video, audio)
- Long context window (1M+ tokens in Pro)
Trade-offs
- Less established than GPT/Claude
- Google ecosystem dependency
Cohere
Enterprise-focused LLM platform
Strengths
- Enterprise-grade security and compliance
- Strong at text generation and summarization
Trade-offs
- Less well-known than OpenAI/Anthropic
- Smaller model ecosystem
Meta Llama
Open-source large language models
Strengths
- Fully open-source (can self-host)
- Strong community and fine-tunes
Trade-offs
- Requires infrastructure for hosting
- Lower performance than closed-source models
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