Recent outages at Anthropic, including elevated errors across claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API on September 29 plus degraded performance from credit delays on October 1, underscore ongoing infrastructure strain as demand for the large language model grows faster than capacity. These incidents, part of a pattern of multiple events per month with typical durations of one to two hours, have kept uptime near 99.4-99.8% over 90 days yet produced frequent partial disruptions. Traders see this reliability profile as comparable to peers like OpenAI amid competitive pressure for enterprise adoption, with October's early incidents and scaling challenges supporting the tight spread between five-to-seven and eight-to-ten outage days as the most probable outcomes.