[BUG] Constantly Getting API Error: 500
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 am getting error below for nearly every prompt.
- Tried plan mode on and off.
- Cleared session
- Closed terminal (ghostty) and opened again
- It seems like when files are not involved in the session errors don't occur.
What Should Happen?
Claude should run prompts successfully
Error Messages/Logs
API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":null}Steps to Reproduce
The prompt is use:
You are an expert project manager. Your task is to update Duration calculation of "Phase 2: Design" in @"Project Management/Project_Timeline_Estimates.md".
Detailed task descriptions and info is in @"Project Management/WBS.csv".
When calculating duration of a phase you should consider effort shared by the roles. For example implementing login screen task can have total effort of 20 hours but if 12 hours of
BE dev 8 hours of FE dev is involved and it is possible them to work in parallel in this specific task you can estimate the duration lets say 13 hours. Assume that team has high
collaboration capacity, maybe it is impossible to total parallelization but members can work together efficiently.
Also you can find team configuration in @"Project Management/Project_Timeline_Estimates.md" too to understand resources.
ultrahink
Claude Model
Sonnet (default)
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.0.9 (Claude Code)
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Other
Additional Information
_No response_
68 Comments
Same, it's pretty frequent.
And as per usual, the status page shows everything is just fine:
<img width="913" height="916" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9ca3fd2-8278-4c8a-b2b8-efa6b9918551" />
Clearly, it's not fine:
<img width="828" height="395" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/754bba4d-0531-4e71-97dc-f657904f6f98" />
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⎿ API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_011CVF3pFmX1PX1Eox6oo7ZR"}
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You could have just said hi to me :(
<img width="828" height="158" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e46ed041-3368-43f1-9548-04b66c5c7e64" />
저도 동일한 이슈 발생합니다. 어떻게 해야할까요?
any sol?
API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_011CVF3vMcv5w9jN4RMjMod4"}
https://status.claude.com/
Elevated error rates to Sonnet 4.5 on Claude Code
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SOLVED;
Not working...
This issue has been inactive for 30 days. If the issue is still occurring, please comment to let us know. Otherwise, this issue will be automatically closed in 30 days for housekeeping purposes.
Still occurring.
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UPDATE: Ok, now it worked again after restarting the IDE 🤔
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UPDATE: it’s working. “go on” did the trick after a few tries.
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API ERROR: 500
UPDATE: it’s working again. “go on” finally got through my jobs with no API errors.
Hey, +1
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Just happened to me
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same
looks like claude code for VS has a error, I have the
same issue now , we are almost 10 users with the same issue, but nobody from claude response
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<img width="1245" height="653" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a0de6e40-84b2-45ff-b096-cf537939dc56" />
you can follow the incident in the page:
https://status.claude.com/
Appears to be fixed on my end
Am getting this now for the first time.
I am getting the same error at my end right now.
API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server
error"},"request_id":"req_011CXoMf77mvycuNJ23kZwGP"}
Same here:
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Same here:
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API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"..."}
I've been getting this on and off for the last 24 hours. Very irritating. Sometimes closing VS Code and re-opening works - and sometimes it doesn't.
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Hi folks, thanks for reporting this. These 500 errors were caused by transient API outages on the Anthropic side — not a bug in Claude Code itself. The API is currently healthy, so I'm closing this out. If you're still experiencing 500 errors, you can check the API status at https://status.anthropic.com, and if the issue persists while the status page is green, please open a new issue with your request ID and we'll investigate.