Anthropic's Claude suffers June 2 outage

Anthropic said on June 2 that Claude, the company’s chatbot, along with its API, Console and Claude Code, was experiencing elevated error rates. The company posted the update on its status page after users reported failed requests, loading problems and access issues across multiple regions. Economic Times reported that some paid subscribers also saw their usage quotas drained unusually fast during the disruption. Anthropic said it had identified the issue and was implementing a fix. ### Which Anthropic services were affected on June 2? Anthropic’s June 2 status update said the incident affected Claude, Claude API, Claude Console and Claude Code. Economic Times reported that the outage hit several of the company’s core products at the same time, leaving both chat users and developers dealing with interruptions. June 2 user reports described two kinds of problems: some people could not access Claude normally, while others said requests were completing with errors or unusual delays. (status.claude.com) CNBC-TV18 reported that Downdetector recorded a sharp rise in complaints as the disruption spread. ### Why were some paid users talking about quotas instead of downtime? Economic Times reported that the issue was not only a conventional outage for some customers. The publication said users on Anthropic’s Pro and Max plans reported that their usage limits were being exhausted far faster than expected. (cnbctv18.com) The same report said a bug in Claude Code’s sub-agent feature caused excessive token consumption. Claude Code uses sub-agents to break larger tasks into smaller parallel jobs, and Economic Times said the malfunction led those processes to consume tokens at unusually high levels, draining some accounts in minutes. Anthropic later reset quotas for affected Pro and Max users, according to the report. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) ### What did Anthropic say publicly? Anthropic said on its status page that it was “investigating” elevated errors across multiple models and later said the issue had been identified and that a fix was being implemented. Economic Times separately cited the company saying users were encountering higher-than-normal error rates while engineers worked on a solution. The company’s public updates did not, in the status-page excerpts available through search results, spell out a full root-cause explanation for the broader outage. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) The more detailed explanation about sub-agents and quota drain came from Economic Times, which attributed it to user reports and developer-community discussion. ### What did users switch to while Claude was down? (status.claude.com) Economic Times listed Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and OpenAI Codex among the tools users were considering while Claude was unavailable. The publication also mentioned Replit AI, Cline, Continue.dev and Google Gemini Code Assist as alternatives for coding tasks. (status.claude.com) TechRadar’s live coverage, cited in the source briefing, also said users were discussing Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf and OpenAI Codex as substitutes during the outage. That reflected how heavily Claude Code is used in day-to-day software work, especially when disruptions affect both the chatbot and developer-facing tools at once. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) ### What should users watch next? Anthropic said on June 2 that service restoration updates would appear on the Claude status page. Users affected by the incident were also watching for confirmation that quotas had been reset and that Claude Code usage had returned to normal for Pro and Max accounts, as reported by Economic Times. (status.claude.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com)