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Notion AI Temporarily Disables Claude Opus 4.7/4.8

June 7, 2026 at 03:36 EDT

On June 7, 2026, Notion disclosed that Anthropic's flagship LLMs "Claude Opus 4.7" and "Claude Opus 4.8" were experiencing degraded performance, raising the failure rate for users who selected either model in Notion AI, and that it had temporarily disabled all Anthropic models in the model picker and automatically rerouted requests to alternative providers.

June 7, 2026 · Notion AI Status

Notion disables all Anthropic models after Opus 4.7 & 4.8 degrade

After both flagship Claude Opus models suffered quality degradation and higher failure rates, Notion pulled them from the model picker and rerouted requests to alternative providers — leaving Anthropic-specific features offline with no restoration timeline.

Opus models disabled
(4.7 & 4.8)

~1 wk

After Opus 4.8's May 28 release before issues resurfaced

6,852

Sessions analyzed claiming a steep drop in reasoning depth

How Notion contained the outage

Automatic failover keeps most users running — but at a cost

Opus 4.7 / 4.8 degrade

Elevated error rates & higher failures

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Models disabled

Removed from the model picker

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Reroute to others

Minimal disruption for most users

The recent Opus lineup — claimed gains

Opus 4.7 · multi-step workflows vs 4.6 +14%

Opus 4.7 · tool errors cut to ⅓

Opus 4.8 · overlooking flawed code, down to ¼

Vendor-claimed improvements. Bars are illustrative of the stated reductions/gains.

Positive reviews

Verbosity & tool-calling problems fixed in 4.8
Improved honesty made it more practical
Stable on agentic work

Critical reports

Perceived quality decline since Opus 4.5
4.7's reasoning called "shockingly bad"
Higher token usage & worse latency

The challenge ahead

Rerouting contained the disruption — but Anthropic-specific features remain unavailable with no restoration timeline.

Anthropic tool-use exposed Long-context workflows at risk MCP integration stability unresolved

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