Investigating - Last week, we opened an incident to investigate degraded quality in some Claude model responses. We found two separate issues that we’ve now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for any ongoing quality issues, including reports of degradation for Claude Opus 4.1.
Resolved issue 1 - A small percentage of Claude Sonnet 4 requests experienced degraded output quality due to a bug from Aug 5-Sep 4, with the impact increasing from Aug 29-Sep 4. A fix has been rolled out and this incident has been resolved.
Resolved issue 2 - A separate bug affected output quality for some Claude Haiku 3.5 and Claude Sonnet 4 requests from Aug 26-Sep 5. A fix has been rolled out and this incident has been resolved.
Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs.
We're grateful to the detailed community reports that helped us identify and isolate these bugs. We're continuing to investigate and will share an update by the end of the week.
Sep 09, 2025 - 00:15 UTC
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Aug 30, 02:12 UTC
Identified -
From 17:30 UTC on Aug 25th to 02:00 UTC on Aug 28th, Claude Opus 4.1 experienced a degradation in quality for some requests. Users may have seen lower intelligence, malformed responses or issues with tool calling in Claude Code.
This was caused by a rollout of our inference stack, which we have since rolled back for Claude Opus 4.1. While we often make changes intended to improve the efficiency and throughput of our models, our intention is always to retain the same model response quality.
We’ve also discovered that Claude Opus 4.0 has been affected by the same issue and we are in the process of rolling it back.
Aug 29, 17:02 UTC
Resolved -
As of 6:40 PT / 13:40 UTC we have mitigated the incident.
Aug 27, 13:46 UTC
Investigating -
We are investigating an issue, with Claude Opus 4.1 similar to the one that happened earlier, this time starting with 4:14 PT / 11:14 UTC.
Aug 27, 11:29 UTC