Yes.
/model
⎿ Kept model as Fable 5
continue
Usage credits are required for this model.Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
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Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#52Anthropic cried "I yield" in the "reset quota" wars. Someone has to pay for all those tokens. Hopefully that's not the case though, I was retaining a buffer to hit it hard this weekend.
Hopefully this is a bug and it makes them do another reset.
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#53Same here. It may be related to the incidents reported today.
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#54Anthropic cried "I yield" in the "reset quota" wars. Someone has to pay for all those tokens. Hopefully that's not the case though, I was retaining a buffer to hit it hard this weekend.
Claude has predicted your actions and now we all must suffer.
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#55Same here. Weirdly, > The promotion starts July 1, 2026 and ends July 19, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT. from: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable...
I think it was cutting off on the 12th, then they extended to the 19th, but apparently they changed their minds again, which really sucks when you've started a big change and now your context window that understood what it was doing gets rug-pulled.
They have to refund usage credits that people accidentally spent now though, since this was unannounced many are running agents and would be billed for tokens that would be covered by their plans. You can't lie to customers like this, if it was announced beforehand it would be fine but not like this.
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#56It's Anthropic, they almost certainly broke something. Doubt they just decided to pull it early.
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#57Yes, ~30 Minutes ago (~18:00 UTC):
Internal error: Usage credits are required for this model.: {
"errorKind": "rate_limit"
}
[Edit] Update from https://status.claude.com/
> 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
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#58another usage reset incoming i guess
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#59“Elevated errors across Fable 5
Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.”
That’s a bug
Re: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
#60Anthropic cried "I yield" in the "reset quota" wars. Someone has to pay for all those tokens. Hopefully that's not the case though, I was retaining a buffer to hit it hard this weekend.
Hopefully this is a bug and it makes them do another reset.
More likely Fable usage was trending to take up more resources than they have available this coming weekend, so they cut it before that happened.
Even 2 hours notice would have been nice, though.