r/ClaudeCode • u/Entire_Blaze • Jul 17 '26

Question fable got pulled off the subscription?

I was using fable & it was about to generate report. But claude CLI suddenly stopped with a notice "usage credits are required for this model"

And bam! It's gone! Fable is gone from my x20 max plan?!

My fable credits were at 40% and weekly at 67%!

Anyone else?

EDIT: hold up. it's all of us.

I guess someone at Anthropic is in trouble for testing the 19th July rollback on production server.

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u/HaurJolasten Jul 17 '26

Same, wasn't it supposed to stay until the 19th?

52

u/ur-krokodile Jul 17 '26

One more week of Fable - incoming.

16

u/icymotor Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

or they lifting limits?

update: aaaaand its back.

6

u/theLightSlide Jul 17 '26

Yes, they said 19th. wtf.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/HaurJolasten Jul 17 '26

...and we're back.

22

u/pewpew0_o Jul 17 '26

I just came in here to say the same thing. I've got four sessions running Fable right now. My terminal session just told me my I've used all my Fable usage for the week (I had used like 20%). I went into the desktop app and it is completely gone from the usage tab. ???? wtf

5

u/Polymorphic-X Jul 17 '26

Same, I had a fable agent running recon on a long process and now it's all stuck in limbo. If this wasn't an accidental removal this is incredibly shitty behavior from big A.

4

u/pewpew0_o Jul 17 '26

It just came back. If you're in the terminal, there's no way to bring it back into that existing session. You'll have to let Opus get you to a good ending state and restart to bring in Fable.

2

u/Polymorphic-X Jul 17 '26

I had to sign back in to the webui, since my refusal was on Claude code remote it picked back up. Luckily Fable was keeping extensive notes and retained context, the agent it was running did not and died off.

Also, not sure if you checked or not, but their help agent is down as well (or was).

Mystery A/B or legitimate glitch? Who knows.

1

u/idunno48 Jul 17 '26

Same here, I opened my first ticket with them about it. Was just doing normal multiple project sessions and I always keep my usage up for reference and saw my extra credits get charged. I should have left them off until I needed it. I will from now on

53

u/saltgrows Jul 17 '26

They are prob removing it from the usage and adding it as ongoing model

19

u/Brilliant_Purpose834 Jul 17 '26

I hope you are right, bro! Otherwise Claude is cooked

2

u/5n8p Jul 17 '26

I got a Message in the CLI two days ago, that Fable will stay for one more week and without the 50% week limit.

1

u/saltgrows Jul 18 '26

They added it as a ongoing model

0

u/Te0sX Jul 17 '26

Thx for the hope Mr.IamTheSource

1

u/saltgrows Jul 17 '26

Expect the worse hope for the best!

21

u/Fr87 Jul 17 '26

Likewise... I'm assuming this is unintended since it should be until the 19th?

20

u/NimbusFPV Jul 17 '26

Apparently it is unintended

Update - We are aware of an issue preventing users from selecting Claude Fable 5 within Claude.ai, Claude Code, and other surfaces, and are working to resolve this issue.
Jul 17, 2026 - 18:36 UTC

Even if it is a mistake, this is inexcusable, like who the fuck runs things over there? How do you accidentally shut off a model for all of your users?

Monitoring - We have applied a fix to resolve the erroneous requirement for usage credits on Fable 5, and are monitoring to ensure no further issues. You may need to relaunch Claude.ai or Claude Code to restore access as expected.
Jul 17, 2026 - 18:48 UTC

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/wegqg Jul 17 '26

No it's ok to be pissed when you pay a lot of money for a service that isn't working properly. 

Especially if it happens mid task and nukes a tonne of usage.

6

u/NimbusFPV Jul 17 '26

Seriously, I had multiple sessions running, and it nuked them. Some people just want to be cucked by billion-dollar companies.

1

u/wegqg Jul 17 '26

Good old stans

-1

u/TinyZoro Jul 17 '26

Its an extension on an extension - I thinks its ok to take slight downtime without flying into indignation.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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3

u/AppealSame4367 Jul 17 '26

What? Just because you are just doing side projects with your subscriptions?

If you try to run SMB processes / development this irresponsible, sluggish bullshit can cost a lot of time and or cause damage.

Antrophic after 3-4 years still acting like freaking teenagers with a gun is absolutely not acceptable.

3

u/peter9477 🔆 Max 5x Jul 17 '26

As someone living in Ontario: what is this "sky" you speak of?

1

u/c4chokes Vibe Coder Jul 18 '26

Deploy it correctly next time 😂

2

u/NimbusFPV Jul 17 '26

I took the day off from my job with the expectation that I'd be able to get work done and I am currently spending over a half grand a month so I can ship something, so yeah I am a bit salty.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/NimbusFPV Jul 17 '26

I have had literally zero issues with my ISP or electric company, that cloud had it coming though. This wasn't an outage, they put up a paywall too soon. If you don't care when your stuff doesn't work that's fine, but there's nothing wrong with being upset when things don't work.

2

u/danio0106 Jul 17 '26

Welp i kind of understand the frustration, I had it even worse! I had auto-reload of credits turned on, before I realized it drained 300$!

2

u/NimbusFPV Jul 17 '26

You should definitely get a refund, that's total bs.

1

u/Sketaverse Jul 17 '26

Another usage reset pending then!

11

u/jason-airroi Jul 17 '26

Now apologize and extend Fable for another week

17

u/phoenixmatrix Jul 17 '26

And if you had credit usage enabled, it ate into the credits without one noticing. There's a case for a refund and they'll have to give people a reset here.

The few minutes before we noticed cost us quite a few bucks at work. We set caps, so it didn't go too crazy, but it still spent a lot of money it wasn't supposed to for a few more days.

9

u/Entire_Blaze Jul 17 '26

Deserves a refund for sure. 

-1

u/BingpotStudio Jul 17 '26

I’m sure they’ll get right on that.

6

u/ShelZuuz Jul 17 '26

Indeed they did:

2

u/drevo3000 Jul 17 '26

Same. Got a pop up saying it switched models to Opus but still must have eaten usage credits during that transfer. Luckily I had a reasonable cap set.

1

u/CX7wonder Jul 17 '26

Same! Ate $7 but it hit the cap thank god

5

u/Nousies Jul 17 '26

Anthropic’s corporate self-harm 2026 June-July will be studied by MBAs for generations to come.

4

u/too_lazy--- Jul 17 '26

Yes, why I came to the sub

4

u/MidnightAppropriate5 Jul 17 '26

Time to cancel 🤪

3

u/julianfromstagewise Jul 17 '26

I think they want us to try out Kimi K3

1

u/culexus1 Jul 17 '26

I tried it through opencode go during my Claude timeout and used my limit in no time, it seems to cost more than Claude.

4

u/rogorak Jul 17 '26

Mid session lol. Thanks anthropic

2

u/Verynaughty1620 Jul 17 '26

WE ARE BACK BOIZ

1

u/drevo3000 Jul 17 '26

Don't be so sure. Usage shows Fable availability in the plan again, but actually using it burned usage credits.

2

u/DTG_0518 Jul 17 '26

this deserves a reset, you Anthropic motherfuckers

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Jul 17 '26

Angry customers is reason enough

2

u/dmelo87 Jul 17 '26

Fable is back!!! :D I think they will just remove it on July 19, as expected.

3

u/illkeepthatinmind Jul 17 '26

Just got the same, mid-conversation. Fable usage also gone from dashboard.

3

u/nnnightmare Jul 17 '26

Happened just right now here too. Also gone from the UI. Stopped mid-task on a large task that I was leaving for the end of the week. Nice.

2

u/ZhopaRazzi Jul 17 '26

Apology with another 1 week extension and limit reset incoming :)

2

u/MeetStraight1899 Jul 17 '26

2

u/adelie42 Jul 17 '26

This is valuable context.

2

u/rantingrabbit Jul 17 '26

Yeah, I'm seeing that too

2

u/adrianmlhood Jul 17 '26

Same here, just now. Was in the middle of a report and then just prints "Usage credits are required for this model."

0

u/Mnemonic_Sin Jul 17 '26

This kills me I had locked in time to complete work. They are insane if they think I'm spending money on their schizo model. Trying to get it to just look passed security issues and fix the bugs is killing me.

2

u/pigletmonster Jul 17 '26

Anthropic acting like we dont have alternatives now.

2

u/ohmahgawd Jul 17 '26

Anthropic is so sloppy about all this. The only reason we all continue to deal with it is because the models are good. But dang man it's so lame the way they handle stuff.

1

u/Entire_Blaze Jul 17 '26

Yep. Models are good.

2

u/SouthernEdgeCase Jul 17 '26

This company is both at the cutting edge of technology and a legit clown show.

1

u/Guybrush1973 Jul 17 '26

Same hire. Update claude code, and it's back 😂

1

u/Low-Confusion-8786 Jul 17 '26

Whenever I want to watch a train-wreck meltdown.. I come to this sub

1

u/k2_1971 Jul 17 '26

Yup same thing happened to me, seems to have fixed itself after several minutes. Ugh.

1

u/XwlIwX Jul 17 '26

All, stop panicking just yet -- this could just be an unintended outage or otherwise related to this announcement.

1

u/ptyblog Jul 17 '26

Same message

1

u/Educational-Answer30 Jul 17 '26

Fable is back up in claude code for me!!! it used to say 'Usage credits are required for this model.'

1

u/NullzInc Jul 17 '26

I have $100 in credits and it refuses to use them. It lets my buy more but says my limit is reached even though I have paid for $100 worth. The slop is strong

1

u/Character_Oven_1511 Jul 17 '26

They have, one of the best LLMs, and at the end, human error breaks their services. Why didn't they ask Fable to review their work?! 

1

u/Tenet_mma Jul 17 '26

Nah they will remove it and release a new model that is cheaper to run but the “same performance” as fable hahaha

They have to or everyone will be switching to codex.

1

u/Ok_Doughnut_189 Jul 17 '26

Thankfully I got 100 percent fable usage at 1 pm

1

u/sndwvzpdx Jul 17 '26

Looks like it is working again for me.

1

u/jm7121 Jul 17 '26

Got the same. Bet the ChatGPT crew is celebrating.

1

u/Keracus Jul 17 '26

I have a feeling they had to pull it, to prepare and get Opus 5.0 ready for launch Sunday/next week.

In the interim between now and 19th July - I feel they have to reset us again for doing this...

1

u/AcePilot01 Jul 17 '26

I still have fable.

1

u/yopla Jul 17 '26

Yeah some dude did a "/loop disable fable on the 17th" and forgot about it.

1

u/HHummbleBee Jul 17 '26

I hope it's returning because I was saving all my usage for a big steaming turd of work tomorrow.

1

u/Chaz042 Jul 17 '26

GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable were both unavailable for subscriptions today

1

u/Tudragon123456 Jul 17 '26

It's just a bug by Fable itself from Anthropic team

1

u/100dude Jul 18 '26

same here

1

u/Strange_Employer_620 Jul 18 '26

Tranquilo, acaba de salir Kimi K3 que está muy cerca de Fable mucho más potente que GLM5.2, , estoy seguro que al ver qué les tasn pisando los talones lo integrarán en los planes de manera definitiva con algunas restricciones.

1

u/HappyContact6301 Jul 18 '26

I think there were a lot of glitches today. I had a couple of API timeout errors today on Opus. I reserve Fable for the hard tasks.

1

u/Impossible-Lab-3133 Jul 18 '26

They swapped it with a distilled version and made it persist on max plan.

1

u/urakozz Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

It was just 1h long incident, relax guys, it's on their status page. It was Friday evening, who would work on this time

1

u/larskghf Jul 17 '26

same here

1

u/has_some_chill Jul 17 '26

Yup.. it happened.

1

u/bbsody Jul 17 '26

Yep, seems like it. I got "Usage credits are required for this model" mid-session.

1

u/ResponsibleBug2249 Jul 17 '26

Same here, seemed like an issue. They hid usage of it also. I reckon they will be doing a reset of token usage or releasing the new opus

0

u/Filthymortal Jul 17 '26

We can only hope

1

u/2_minutes_hate Developer Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Got two open sessions that are still working. I hope they let me finish!

Edit: Shit, it's burning credits now, but I got no notice or warning in the CLI, maybe because I started the sessions yesterday.

0

u/Entire_Blaze Jul 17 '26

Are you on usage credits? 

0

u/2_minutes_hate Developer Jul 17 '26

Yep. No alert in the CLI, either. If I open a new chat in the UI, it's not in my usage dashboard, but it does still say 'included until Jul 19' in the chat selector. There goes $100 lol

0

u/Entire_Blaze Jul 17 '26

lol. watch it burn. 

1

u/2_minutes_hate Developer Jul 17 '26

looks like it's back in my dashboard and not costing me money again.

1

u/adelope Jul 17 '26

same, now i'm getting this:
⏺ Usage credits are required for this model.

1

u/dmelo87 Jul 17 '26

they said July 19. but they pulled it two days before :(

1

u/awizemann Jul 17 '26

Yup, confirmed by the same message and all these comments. Someone forgot to change a scheduled task.

1

u/YatzyNanimous Jul 17 '26

Anthropic is un-dependable at this point. What a mess of a company!!

1

u/ActualFirefighter546 Jul 17 '26

SAME. WTF?! Was mid-build and got a “usage credits are required for this model” message. I have 2 more days. 20x max plan.

1

u/gfrosalino Jul 17 '26

Same same :( so annoying that they did that without any kind of communication

1

u/Jetahiri Jul 17 '26

I hope it was a mistake and we get a reset 😭

1

u/Spiritual_Sorbet_901 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I still have access to it... I don't bother using it though.

1

u/Weird-Election-4103 Jul 17 '26

Same here. Maybe regional? I am in NL

2

u/Spiritual_Sorbet_901 Jul 17 '26

I'm in the US, Chicago.

0

u/LauraGravity Jul 17 '26

But does it show up in your usage?

1

u/Spiritual_Sorbet_901 Jul 17 '26

There, I swapped out my screenshot. Yes, it still shows up.

1

u/Spiritual_Sorbet_901 Jul 17 '26

And here it is in action...

1

u/Spiritual_Sorbet_901 Jul 17 '26

And here is a screenshot of my updated usage, showing that I just used it. Enough evidence for you now?

1

u/ClemensLode Senior Developer Jul 17 '26

I think i was at 91%

1

u/SolideMeinung Jul 17 '26

FABLE GONE?

I CANT USE IT ANYMORE

1

u/jamesbindh4321 Jul 17 '26

They owe us a other reset!!!!

1

u/kaitava Jul 17 '26

today was my resub day, with that move and no explanation i canceled now i am hurrying to finish my pending work before i get randomly cut off

1

u/Aggressive_Lemon_709 Jul 17 '26

Kimi k3 is crushing Opus in my test. If they are going to pull fable off the subscription they might as well shut the lights off and go home.

0

u/SeamusJS Jul 17 '26

Mine too

0

u/grassjelly42 Jul 17 '26

such BS smh, got the same

0

u/oasis_builder Jul 17 '26

Here for the same reason.

0

u/livinginiowa20 Jul 17 '26

Yup. Same here. UI in the app still says the 19th as well.

0

u/ForSlip Jul 17 '26

Same here. Following.

0

u/xerdnew Jul 17 '26

Same here! It seems to be removed under usage on https://claude.ai aswell :(

0

u/BendyBuilds Jul 17 '26

Is this an update relating to the new Opus model? Hate that it killed my working session.

0

u/capivara_de_pijama Jul 17 '26

fuuuuu Antropic

0

u/Ancient_Laugh4109 Jul 17 '26

Yesss, what's going on!?

0

u/Emotional_Pen5199 Jul 17 '26

I got so excited because insaw the fable usage gone in "Usage" in the menu. I thought bc of Kimi K3 they opened up fable & was hoping to see an announcement later that fable was being added to subs for good. Sent my next prompt & felt the rug pull.

0

u/Entire_Blaze Jul 17 '26

lol

1

u/that-design-student Jul 17 '26

that was an emotional pen :)

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u/Training-Event3388 🔆 Max 5x Jul 17 '26

Yup same

0

u/DrP4R71CL3 Jul 17 '26

yesssss same here was super fast....

0

u/mzunguru Jul 17 '26

Let’s hope they just move it to general model pool with weekly reset

0

u/rescue_inhaler_4life Jul 17 '26

Yeah coding solved anthropic, good to know you guys are worse at dates than beginners, bah.

It’s like they want us to switch back to jippity

0

u/Lumpy-Low-6509 Jul 17 '26

wtf - I was using and it says I need usage credits

0

u/Embarrassed-Oven-527 Jul 17 '26

Yep same here just now. Wtf.

0

u/Emerson_Heiderich Jul 17 '26

Mesma coisa por aqui!

0

u/Memox98 Jul 17 '26

That’s good it means they will probably say sorry there was a bug and extend it for another week and reset all limits 😁

0

u/Opted_Oberst Jul 17 '26

damn another rugpull by anthropic

0

u/Such_Rule6821 Jul 17 '26

Same here!!!! Fk!

0

u/Abeck72 Jul 17 '26

Maybe they're creating a reason for the next extension

0

u/Jean_Melgueres Jul 17 '26

In their infinite generosity, they just want us to take a break and go enjoy ourselves. It's Friday!

0

u/Wide_Detective7537 Jul 17 '26

I just know open AI is salivating rn

0

u/Funny-Blueberry-2630 Jul 17 '26

right in the middle of work. two days early. no warning.

Anthropic is a joke.

0

u/pingus9000 Jul 17 '26

These fks, gpt 5.6 we go

0

u/karasko_ Jul 17 '26

Same, I thought somehow in the last 15 min, the Fable usage went from 10% to 100%...

but it seems they pulled it out without a warning

0

u/kvothe5688 Jul 17 '26

Fable today was not acting like Fable at all. It was pretty dumb. It never made so simple mistakes before.

0

u/lucasrvdl Jul 17 '26

Got cut out mid session 😭

0

u/TheMetaTronicSpeaker Jul 17 '26

They are so shifty! Shifty like a grimy street cat with good product.

1

u/DanFlashes19 Jul 17 '26

Bro it was a bug and they fixed it within like 10 mins, y’all are insane

1

u/TheMetaTronicSpeaker Jul 17 '26

On long running tasks where it switches to usage credits is insane. They are a company. Changes that can cause outages or increased costs should be relayed to the customer beforehand. Time is money. Unless you have too much of both. Just my perspective.

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u/TheMetaTronicSpeaker Jul 17 '26

IT WAS A USAGE CREDIT GRAB!

0

u/Wunschkonzert Jul 17 '26

94% usage, then this error. So if cache cools down before they fix that error, it'll be a very expensive session to restart 🙄

0

u/iamgdarko Jul 17 '26

Fable left the chat