Anthropic has perhaps the most embarrassing status page history I have ever seen. They are famous for downtime.

https://status.claude.com/

As opposed to other companies which are smart enough not to report outages.

So, there are only two types of companies: ones that have constant downtime, and ones that have constant downtime but hide it, right?

Basically, yes.

The competition doesn't currently have all 99's - https://status.openai.com/

The best way to use Claude's models seems to be some other inference provider (either OpenRouter or directly)

And yet people still use them.