[BUG] Anthropic API Error: Overloaded
Status Closed — not planned
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 12 comments · opened Sep 24, 2025 · closed Jan 9, 2026
Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
I'm still getting:API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Overloaded"},"request_id":null}
What Should Happen?
With anything I submit even "hello"
Error Messages/Logs
API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Overloaded"},"request_id":null}Steps to Reproduce
Type anything in Claude Code
Claude Model
Opus
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
1.0.123
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
Windows
Terminal/Shell
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
Additional Information
_No response_
12 Comments
Same here — getting the exact same 500 Overloaded error.
This is impacting me locally and on gh actions.
<img width="2396" height="660" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9fa53d5d-3e75-45af-aa50-2b2bf5f27370" />
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Kind of crazy how unstable Claude is at times.
Additionally, I have been experiencing this bug as well for about a month now (which seems to go unnoticed by Claude development team), which is also driving me quite insane 🙃: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5613 (tbh I expect more responsiveness and communication here to resolve these kind of bugs while paying for the product)
Again, same here: still not updated (https://status.claude.com/)
This is also a thing imo. The status page is not updated/clear enough. I went there before arriving here. But there is no timely reporting or acknowledgement of outages or reduced availability there.
Facing the same Issue
Seems to be working again. But honestly, I don't understand why customers notice an outage before the company itself. It's not rocket science (health checks?) and definitely not a good sign.
Exactly, they say they are "monitoring" but how are we spotting the issue before them? They say they've resolved the issue but they should shouldn't say resolved without giving enough time to see if customers experience it again.
I'm getting other types of error
Key Type Mismatch
"result": "API Error: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code and cannot be used for other API requests.\"}
Bun setup error
After
and skip some minified JS here, it says:
I tried to use Claude on two repos, reinstalled Claude GitHub App, generated new secret, authorized on anthropic again, and in both repo they still fail. I thought it's my problem at first.
I guess this blocks merge action for everyone? to bypass it I had to uninstall Claude GitHub App.
⎿ API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Overloaded"},"request_id":null}facing same issue
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