Anthropic's uptime is the second worst out of the most used AI APIs that I've seen. Just look at the uptime of all these providers. It's not even '3' 9s.<p><pre><code> OpenAI: 99.96% [0]
Anthropic: 99.56% [1]
DeepSeek: 95.68% [2]
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Gemini doesn't reveal their exact uptime figures but there have been intermittent issues with their API. [3] Overall, with Anthropic own API's they are struggling to get the basics of scalability of their systems despite billions in funding.<p>I'm looking forward to the post mortem of this but the importance of efficient AI inference cannot be under-estimated. Just look at Mistral as an example of handling this slightly much better than the rest. [4]<p>Unless you have the money, one should just consider the cloud hosted versions of Claude by AWS or GCP rather than their direct APIs, if you cannot tolerate the constant outages.<p>[0] <a href="https://status.openai.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.openai.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://status.anthropic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.anthropic.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://status.deepseek.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.deepseek.com/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://aistudio.google.com/status" rel="nofollow">https://aistudio.google.com/status</a><p>[4] <a href="https://status.mistral.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://status.mistral.ai/</a>