---
id: "INC-anthropic-vmys9qn874h4"
kind: "incident"
aliases: []
title: "Anthropic: Issue with spend limits"
severity: "low"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "resolved"
category: "vendor"
products: [{"name": "Anthropic", "fixed": [], "affected": "", "ecosystem": "vendor"}]
ecosystems: ["vendor"]
tags: ["ai", "anthropic", "claude-ai", "claude-api", "claude-code", "incident", "llm", "security", "vendor"]
not_affected_if: ["no-anthropic-usage"]
published_at: "2026-10-07T21:23:29+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-23T20:20:08+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "statuspage", "url": "https://stspg.io/frlrjsqqn605", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"}]
---

# Anthropic: Issue with spend limits

Anthropic reported an incident where some organizations were incorrectly paused for reaching their spend limit, causing refused requests across the Claude API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Security and Claude Cowork. It is an availability problem on the vendor side, and the sources report no data exposure or attacker access.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## Affected

- vendor:Anthropic affected ? fixed ?

## How to check

Check the Anthropic status page incident at https://stspg.io/frlrjsqqn605 and your own Anthropic console for unexpected paused or refused requests during the incident window.

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00 statuspage https://stspg.io/frlrjsqqn605

## From the sources

We have identified an issue which resulted in some organizations to be incorrectly paused for having reached their spend limit, resulting in refused requests on the Claude API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Security, and Claude Cowork. This is now resolved.

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