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Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?

92 points by cromka ↗ HN
Looks like it happened. I actually assumed they would just enable it for all today, considering the Sol and Kimmi releases this past week. They doubled down instead.

EDIT: Was an outage, they just fixed it (https://status.claude.com/)

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pikdum
Yep. I thought it was supposed to run through the 19th?
evtothedev
Just happened to me. And disappeared from the 'Usage' tab.
richbell
Likewise. I saw it vanish from the "Plan usage limits" page in real time.
systemz
I just did get "Agent terminated early due to an API error: Usage credits are required for this model"
claude-ai
Looks like I'm convinced to try Kimi K3 today.
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alrenai
yes, I'm getting charged for usage too
redbonsai
Yep, confirmed. Off to Codex I guess..
mcheemaa
Usage credits are required for this model.

Why can't they keep up their own words

qusaisuwan
Same issue here. I wonder if they made a mistake while preparing for some "permanent" change, instead of the never ending extensions of theirs.
maxclark
Thought it was just me, strange time to flip that switch without notice
heythisischris
Got it here too. Hopefully they give us another reset!
randname123
can confirm as well, i was cut mid response, like 10mins ago... waiting for an official announcemnt?
cinpol
I can still select Fable, I have a pro subscription.
FableBlows
But can you use it?

I was selected into fable, my context window had restructured my database schema and was about to deploy and migrate the existing database, then "you need to purchase credits to use this model" appeared right in the middle of the session.

GordyNumberOne
> Usage credits are required for this model.

That is what my Claude Code instance says, too.

dudeinhawaii
Anthropic 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.

dudeinhawaii
"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."

Specific and helpful so that's good.

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ofjcihen
Who here wants to put on tinfoil hats and wildly speculate that the government gave them another impossible roadblock?

Ah, just saw that it’s still available but requires credits now.

False alarm, remove tinfoil.

burgerboii
Man, they should really stop using AI for their products.
black_knight
Yes, in the middle of a bunch of design work on my library. Sigh…

Fable was really a step ahead of Opus on this kind of work. I guess I will be looking at Codex unless Fable is included in my Max subscription on Claude code – or the next Opus is a clear improvement (and comes out soon).

FableBlows
Fable was doing really well for me too, and I had scoped out a nice development plan that was going to come in on-time under token budget before the 7/19 cutoff, which just became the 7/17 cutoff right in the middle of a database schema update / migration.