# “Anthropic is experiencing a partial outage right now. To avoid downtime, we’ve temporarily fallen back to an OpenAI model.” **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 24, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547 "2024-09-24T12:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ashenjy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/ashenjy/32/6094_2.png) [@ashenjy](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ashenjy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/1 "2024-09-24T12:47:49Z")
why are we paying? even though claude is not down, it still gives this error, such scammers, i’m gonna chargeback, this is useless ---
**Author:** ![patrickwalton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/patrickwalton/32/6139_2.png) [@patrickwalton](https://forum.cursor.com/u/patrickwalton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/2 "2024-09-24T16:07:14Z")
I started seeing this yesterday. At the time, Anthropic was reporting an outage, but I’m still seeing it today despite Anthropic reporting fully operational status. Tried restarting cursor, but that didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/3 "2024-09-24T17:12:47Z")
Hi @ashenjy Have you checked this page? > **[Anthropic Status](https://status.anthropic.com/)** > > Welcome to Anthropic's home for real-time and historical data on system performance. It looks like there was an error after all, or do you think Cursor is misleading? ---
**Author:** ![ashenjy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/ashenjy/32/6094_2.png) [@ashenjy](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ashenjy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/4 "2024-09-24T17:47:59Z")
its for 31 mins. i had this issue for hours without any response from the team, its obvious they are switching to free openai plans to save costs, very fishy ---
**Author:** ![ktidev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@ktidev](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ktidev)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/5 "2024-09-24T17:55:29Z")
The problem has been fixed. There is no problem now ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-we-ve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18547/6 "2024-09-25T04:20:06Z")
> [@"Anthropic is experiencing a partial outage right now. To avoid downtime, we've temporarily fallen back to an OpenAI model."](https://forum.cursor.com/t/anthropic-is-experiencing-a-partial-outage-right-now-to-avoid-downtime-weve-temporarily-fallen-back-to-an-openai-model/18445/42): > > just got an update from Anthropic, seems like they’ve fixed the issue!