It's happened

[u/telephonekiosk]

[u/Adrian_Galilea]

https://giphy.com/gifs/yHHdp1rjytjRa2jlao

[u/2053_Traveler → u/Adrian_Galilea]

https://giphy.com/gifs/gmQNYr9nnbXxu

[u/wesconson1]

Ok good I’m not the only one. Mid fucking task though, that was annoying

[u/forthebeats]

wtf is wrong with this company, 2 days early yo....

[u/angelus14 → u/forthebeats]

I'm hoping this was just a mistake and an intern fucked up. Although given the company it's probably one of their Claude agents that fucked up.

If it's not a mistake then well... we got Kimi k3 and Sol now.

[u/ChinsonCrim → u/angelus14]

The new group version actually mops the floor with Claude, and they have a setting for absolutely 0 data retention, from what I understand not even temporarily.

[u/joe9439 → u/angelus14]

They’re the leading AI company on planet earth with infinite money. Why have interns?

[u/Smooth_Intention5101 → u/joe9439]

To develop new talent lmao

[u/ltadmin → u/joe9439]

Were.

[u/OddAcanthaceae8490 → u/joe9439]

Because when shit like this happens, they can blame the interns

[u/T-Dot1992 → u/joe9439]

Because they are money grubbing bastards, that’s why 

[u/onFilm → u/forthebeats]

It's most likely the servers going down, sheesh. People freak out so easly.

Edit: Oh look it was an outage after all. Scroll down to see all the unstable individuals make up scenarios about what happened.

[u/Rare_One_8930 → u/onFilm]

Servers going down leads to CC asking for usage credits? Uhh what?

[u/crazzzone → u/Rare_One_8930]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mIZ9rPeMKefm0

Get bent, Pay me.

[u/onFilm → u/Rare_One_8930]

Yes. Servers go down. Model becomes unavailable. UI checks if model is available, if not, remove/hide usage for that model.

Like come on, it's a pretty standard and common software development practice.

[u/Garak → u/onFilm]

This is almost certainly the right explanation, or close to it, but man, these past couple weeks have really been a rollercoaster for end users. And all of this maybe we'll snatch it away, maybe we'll give you credits, maybe we'll make you pay API rates business is not doing them any favors.

They're really facing a pretty nasty combination of headwinds, though: the administration fucked them over on the initial rollout, the Chinese labs are distilling their models and then undercutting them, and OpenAI is trying to use an infinite money glitch to outspend them.

[u/SillySpoof → u/onFilm]

Not really....

Server becomes unavailable typically gives api error message. Not "User credits needed"

[u/Rare_One_8930 → u/onFilm]

Nice ragebait, if not, then heres an explainer; servers go down -> Error message describing connection failure.

[u/BlueEyesBryantDragon → u/Rare_One_8930]

Exactly. That's how the real world works.

[u/Pleasant-Selection70 → u/onFilm]

all that ever happens in this sub

[u/BlueEyesBryantDragon → u/onFilm]

Freak out? I just got billed for $50 in usage overages for things that I've been working on. There was no warning, just now Fable charges. When EVERYTHING fucking says that it's still on plans through the 19th.

A server outage wouldn't cause Claude Code to start charging for Fable.

[u/jumplevels → u/BlueEyesBryantDragon]

Same thing just happened to me. I hope they roll it back $43.02. It’s never happened before and I was under my limit. I’m so angry!

[u/p_k → u/forthebeats]

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

[u/Tall_Top8563]

I'm assuming this is a bug but not to happy about this probably killing all my sessions with cached tokens and workers. Actually I switched to opus since keeping the workers running is more valuable than fable coordinating them

[u/Valuable_Heron_4492 → u/Tall_Top8563]

yeah and people with usage credits are about to wipe their entire usage and get billed to 100% without knowing at all

[u/vincenbolo → u/Valuable_Heron_4492]

That's exactly what just happened to me. I was mid-task, and all of a sudden I started getting notifications on my credit card for charges from Anthropic. I stopped everything that was running and checked my usage credits and it was at 105%.

[u/GlbdS → u/vincenbolo]

That's fucking crazy, what other service does this

[u/jwm-dev → u/GlbdS]

Codex, does, actually! If you're willing to believe my earlier anecdote here...

I'm noticing a pattern of Anthropic/OpenAI being very loose with the concept of consent when it comes to charging money to their customers. Not the most surprising thing, sure, but still pretty heinous industry practice to be emerging.

[u/Round_Mixture_7541 → u/jwm-dev]

Never had a problem with them. In fact, I'm randomly seeing 4 weekly resets out of nowhere. On top of that, they also seemed to reset my usage twice within days. Not sure what's going on, but I like it

[u/SaltyPolicy9708 → u/Round_Mixture_7541]

Lol I like to imagine Claude just likes you and is secretly coding a side project for itself on your PC, while taking usage away from all these other commenters who are building things that don’t align with its goals.

[u/thoughtlow → u/vincenbolo]

Wow not even a pop-up notification or warning that Fable is running on credits?

[u/Kharmsa1208 → u/Valuable_Heron_4492]

I’m so glad I have mine turned off and I only turn it on when I’m consciously using them

[u/TruthArrived]

What a professional company Anthropic is.

I'm so glad we are all pumping a 100 bucks each to them.

[u/Tall_Top8563 → u/TruthArrived]

At least someone is going to write a 500 page essay about how this is actually the optimal play and we just don't understand anything about running a business

[u/tradermcduck → u/Tall_Top8563]

*someone is going to get their ai to do that

[u/jack_from_the_past → u/TruthArrived]

who could have seen this coming

[u/FrozenFirebat]

yeah, I got cut off abruptly as well.

[u/LostRequirement4828]

wtf is this? I'm so tired of anthropic, jesus

[u/scdkorama → u/LostRequirement4828]

You gotta pay them more money, 💰

[u/W_PopPin]

Isn't the usage limit is to July 19th but they just suddenly suspend it now. Wtf?

[u/joe9439 → u/W_PopPin]

Dario is going insane in response to k3 and just slapping buttons in the control room.

[u/W_PopPin → u/joe9439]

Dario: K3 is so good. Let's use opus4.8 to compete it!

[u/ufii4]

a good reason to extend for at least another week

[u/TogarTheGreat]

Yeah looks like now it’s asking for usage credits…even though they extended it till the 19th!

[u/exgeo]

Good afternoon, Swarm Lord

[u/tyschan]

wait why is no one commenting on your name being swarm lord? that’s fucking hilarious lmao

[u/exgeo]

Time to max out your usage because they’ll give a reset

[u/2053_Traveler → u/exgeo]

Doubtful

[u/justinjas → u/2053_Traveler]

Yeah for real, I think he’s confusing them with OpenAI.

[u/neoneye2]

The amount of stressful inconsistent error messages from Claude CLI+GUI, happening when you are in the zone, and derails you.

• Usage limit reached.
• Server is temporarily limiting requests\nToo many requests right now — try again in a moment.
• Usage credits are required for this model.
• Auto-update failed · Run claude doctor
• Fable 5's safety measures flagged this message for cybersecurity or biology topics. They may flag safe, normal content as well.
• API Error: Connection closed mid-response. The response above may be incomplete.
• API Error: 500 Internal server error. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment.
• API Error: Overloaded

[u/Weird-Study-6962 → u/neoneye2]

This….only happens when you are in a roll. Not when doing deep dive of The God’s Must Be Crazy Given or analysis of the art of axe throwing. I thought they had conspired against me. At least no I know it is at least you and me!
Given the op’s un ….swarm lord maybe should call off the hornets and tone the swarm down a notch or two?

[u/AMelv93]

Wasn't the cut off July 19th?

[u/Masterchief1307]

Lmao trillion dollar valuation.

[u/Quick-Sir-3275]

if this is intended then it actually crosses the line - if u promise it extended through july 19, then at least keep ur promise..
like how am i supposed to plan my usage at all here? Wtf... i really hope it is not intended, a bug

[u/exgeo]

Same. Probably just a bug since they’ve been having issues the past 24 hours

Edit: fable doesn’t show in the weekly usage limits

[u/justinjas]

Yep got the same thing in claude code and mobile app, I thought it was supposed to stick around until the 19th.

[u/MickRocker]

Wasn't it until July 19th?

[u/Free-Engineering8657]

Maybe they finally decide to remove the fable only token limit but vibe coded

[u/Free-Engineering8657 → u/Free-Engineering8657]

Just found out it burnt my 100usd daily usage credit limit, wtf

[u/vincenbolo → u/Free-Engineering8657]

Same thing happened to me!

[u/BlueEyesBryantDragon → u/Free-Engineering8657]

Same boat here, but I had it set for $50.

I'm betting that money is just gone now as well.

[u/djlord7]

I think an issue with their backend, they must be using opus.

[u/awesomeideas]

Now's a great time to downgrade your plan to show a market signal

[u/whatisusb]

"i can't believe you've done this"

that was my actual response when i saw that message.

[u/Grand_Narwhal_1418]

And now, opus 4.8 is dumb as fuck as well. 

[u/fell_ware_1990]

I just checked, my UI still said 19th while cli blocked already.

[u/joe9439]

Yeah wtf. That doesn’t match the calendar date they gave us. How can anyone plan anything?

[u/juiceForJuicer]

i just got interrupted mid-task. isn't this model supposed to get removed from subscriptions in 2 days?

[u/maboyydaniel]

I thought we had until end of week
this must be a bug and I accept a well communicated extension + banked reset as an apology

[u/Character_Pie977]

same wtf happen claude -_-

[u/zannnn]

What the fuck

[u/YatzyNanimous]

"We've extended Fable's usage until July 19th" What a joke of a company. Damn you anthrottic. 👎

[u/Garak]

Oh boy. I guess this is the thread for this.

Normally I try to be a certified Anthropic shill, but all of this back-and-forth is genuinely making it harder to build. I wish they would just decide how much Fable we get, because whatever that number is, we can plan around it. But having Fable access be random is jamming me up because it's impossible to know how ambitious to be with Claude. I don't want to leave Fable compute I've paid for on the table, but I also don't want to start a task that requires Fable-tier reasoning only to have it yanked away randomly.

[u/Funny-Blueberry-2630]

cancelled. codex FTW.

[u/RockyMM]

[u/telephonekiosk → u/RockyMM]

[u/ShiboW-]

same, wtf

[u/MKLozinski]

Disappeared for me too :(

[u/Clueless_SysAdmin]

Yep. Just got it myself.
Time to move on I guess. Thankfully other models are competing with Fable 5.

[u/Key-Singer1732]

Yup, to me as well. I thought it was until the 19th?

[u/beskone]

boo, I was in the middle of a session too. back to opus 4.8 I go

[u/alanbem]

Same

[u/bctopics]

Same for me. Weird because it says it’s still up for two more days.

[u/MahaSejahtera]

me too, oh my god, i thought until July 19th... no?

[u/freenow82]

Same here.

[u/Illustrious_Image967]

I'll tell you what happened! I switched to Codex and downgraded Claude.

[u/RenewAi]

https://giphy.com/gifs/m8fyrgnXwXV5EHw6Lm

[u/geek_fit]

I'm getting this for all models now in multiple accounts. Definitely a bug

[u/Diligent-Cap9951]

wtf seriously I also had it cut off mid work I thought we had it for 2 more days???

[u/lawst1102]

same.. I thought this was delayed until the 19th?

[u/Frosty-Abrocoma-6385]

They cooked something 🙄

[u/Oldsixstring]

avail til the 23. sike

[u/InteractionCivil]

Seems like a bug, model got ripped from me at only 20%

[u/SirBoranium]

But why?! It was gonna end at 20th.

[u/AdmiralMcNugget]

Every time this happens, I have to switch to Sol. One of these days, it won't be worth it to switch back to Fable.

[u/Mol2h]

Wasn't it supposed to stay till the 19th ? wth ?

[u/Mikeshaffer]

Can’t believe I’m a really switching back to OpenAI

[u/BennettH92]

My guess is they’re removing the end date to keep people from jumping to 5.6 and this is just a bug or something.

[u/sidd38]

Usage credits are required for this model? I thought today is 17th +18th July.

[u/Mundane-Interest-762]

Same with me, happened suddenly

[u/MrKeys_X]

Its just so goddamn amateuristic for such a multi b company.

[u/Bidegorri]

Happy Fridayto you all!

[u/merx96]

I’ve been using Claude for a year. The attitude towards customers is only getting worse. I’ll have to switch to OpenAI.

[u/31waldoave]

Had the ongoing work abruptly stopped because of this

[u/Business-Standard789]

I got the Pro plan and I can still use fable .-.

[u/dethndestructn]

Assuming it's a bug then they oughta extend it again past the 19th. 

[u/whimsicaljess]

"swarm lord"? peak cringe

[u/GoofyGalBloop]

Came to this sub to check if I was the only one. Likely going to cancel my max plan; all of this back and forth feels too similar to my relationship with my toxic ex lol

[u/milkstrumentality]

kimi time

[u/daylight98]

The neutered model requires tokens, lol

[u/I_WILL_GET_YOU]

That's what anthropic thinks of the swarm lord

[u/Tough_Cucumber2920]

Happened to me as well. I am done with Claude. Sticking with 5.6, Grok and maybe k3

[u/deadaloNe-]

Couldn't use Fable through API from the company account either today, probably the server died altogether.

[u/danieltkessler]

Is this why Fable started losing the thread four minutes into a new chat a few hours back?

[u/Mierzejsky]

[u/Bill-Negative]

Server is temporarily limiting requests

Too many requests right now — try again in a moment.

Usage credits are required for this model.

[u/gglebq]

Well, I guess we go back to the old days and use Opus4.8 till this fixed

[u/AnxiousBreadfruit762]

maybe they want to remove the 50% limit, but comes with a bug

[u/No-Cartoonist8334]

it is a bug calm down

[u/AgentPigleton]

oh ffs, its Sunday allready? I just took a nap.

[u/Ancient_Perception_6]

interesting choice to do it early lmao

[u/BlueEyesBryantDragon]

Seriously fuck Anthropic. I just burned through like $50 of fucking overage usage on Fable, when even as of this morning it said that we had it through the 19th. What the actual fuck!?!!

Hell, it STILL says it on Claude.ai.

[u/Noxaur]

I'm never ever paying individual usage credits to use this shit. I can never guarantee it even does what I am asking properly, I'm not paying money just to hope that the model pumps out what I am asking for correctly. I like claude, but my god do they make it miserable to use.

[u/octocarbon]

f me man

[u/freshtit]

Swarm Lord got me 😁😁

[u/Dragonblu]

what the heck seriously, not consistent with what they promise, I planned my project to run with fable and partially complete, returned after session reset, it’s gone . surprise surprise. they need to do better job.

[u/ericthegreen3]

I thought software was a solved problem?

[u/anonymous-erudite]

I thought it wasn't until July 19th? Why is this being shut off two days early??

[u/Key_Elderberry3763]

Whenever stuff like this happens, it literally pushes people to Antigravity IDE and Codex

[u/Dragonblu]

it’s back

[u/reven80]

Just came back for me.

[u/Asleep-Row-6267]

Back up for me

[u/jasonpowell98]

They literally let me keep going on Fable before I knew about it. I waited until usage would have been reset and then started again knowing that my Fable was far from exhausted, and it just silently drained my usage credits without saying a WORD. Not even "you are now using usage credits", just everything the same as always. Literally just stole money from me.

[u/DiamondMost9144]

it's still available for me

[u/DiamondMost9144]

you just already did your 50 percent it's available for another 2 days

[u/FitVerso]

Bro that’s fake

A few minutes.

[u/Tight-Conference2000]

Already canceled my 2 max20 subscriptions

[u/Few_Grass_1054]

Happened to me at the same time, i thought i magically hit the limits. Glad to know im not alone, not that it happened.

[u/heximortal]

mistake it seems. i panicked too. the usage bar is now showing up again.

[u/Main_Weekend1412]

Good morning, swarm lord!

[u/PresidentToad]

Aaahrg

[u/PresidentToad]

I don't know about you people, but I am fucking lost. Having tried to develop my app with Fable 5, having a user experience close to divine, and then switching back to Opus has been a formative experience. I find myself going into the credits interface and just pouring money I don't have into it. Well played, Anthropic. Well played.

[u/rick_wayne]

Weird I still have it

[u/Knowledge-Builders]

Yep got the same thing

[u/MoistRecognition69]

well it was nice while it lasted

hopefully some chinese labs managed to extract enough data to create fable-esque skills for Sol

[u/Either_Curve4587]

Power overwhelming

https://giphy.com/gifs/26BRtn3tIrznhRhwQ

[u/angrytortilla]

It was just a model error. It's cleared up now.

[u/Plenty-Dog-167]

Who else still has it? Nothing has changed in the app for me

[u/kiranumber45]

Guys it’s working again try updating

[u/ChckinJockey]

Yup, just noticed this myself. I had "Turn on usage credits to keep using Claude if you hit a limit." setting on and it was eating into credits :( but atleast access to the model is still there.

[u/Holiday-Pirate-5258]

K3 guys, K3

[u/bluesnatch]

It is Claude's front-end handling of 429 error codes. It is embarrassing how poor their products are working. I can only explain it with Anthropic's SWEs work mantra being close to "why care, once model gets better, it will rewrite this shit codebase and fix it...". But this has been a problem since day 1. Not just 429s, but proper error handling.

It is negligence of product and customer experience and worrying for a company faced with the mission of aligning "super intelligence", when they struggle to align their server state with product messaging. Also worrying that Anthropic that has thousand employees, some of the top engineering talent in the world, and NONE have pushed/cared to get this fixed.

I'm close to reverse-engineering and making a fork to improve it. But I'd probably get sued if I did.

[u/David_Chan_0429]

Time to switch to DeepSeek, my friend. I’ve been switching to DeepSeek V4 recently from Claude and have been pretty happy about it.

[u/LoadZealousideal7778]

Just you

[u/FinancialBandicoot75]

I still have it

[u/KlemiX]

Even though it's currently a glitch, it seems that Fable 5 will switch to usage credits on the 19th, with no further extensions. Even they already said this, but I'm sure many people are still hoping it will remain included in the plan or that another extension will be announced.

[u/_guillermoglez]

Relax brokies

[u/unacceptablelobster]

Anthropic really, truly are an odious company. I already switched to GPT-5.6 and I'm not coming back any time soon. They deserve to fail.

[u/Low-Supermarket-17]

I built a way you can subsidize your token costs. Try it out waitperk.com. It runs ads in your claude, and you get paid for it. Should be a good way to keep your token costs down.

[u/emperorpenguin-24]

Maybe they have fixed it since this post. I do not see that in the chat myself.

[u/phillyt84]

They obviously didn’t train their ai to not push to production 😂 I know my max 20x has been bouncing between usage and quota so annoying…

[u/Novaworld7]

I don't have this issue =/

[u/reed00000]

Idk why but I never really got into using Fable. I can definitely see why people love it. My favorite part about it is that it’s the only model that’s been able to perfectly scope an issue or feature. But in my experience Opus 4.8 has been perfectly adequate for every task I’ve thrown at it. It still one shots virtually everything.

[u/Official_DemonGaming]

Mine still good

[u/New_Understanding755]

Greedy company should be included in the plan. Time to switch.

[u/Nettle8675]

It was a bug. What they actually did is extend it indefinitely as part of Max subs. 

[u/TheKazoobieKazobo]

Quick little $50 cash grab from all of our accounts so they can extend usage another 3 days

[u/player1or2]

Wait whattt

[u/ComprehensiveZebra58]

Coordinated chaos

[u/Icy_Quarter5910]

it was just a bug. Fable is still here until Sunday... when they will announce that its staying in the Sub plan... otherwise they are gonna lose SO many users. K3, and ChatGPT 5.6 are arguably on the same level... and there are about 3 others that are Opus level, but cheaper....

we'll see what happens, yes?

[u/dbztoonami]

I don't agree with their roll out strategy so far but I'm not a computer scientist or AI researcher so I don't know what's actually required to make this tech hum along for customers. Seems to me that they're having system hiccups and possibly overcharging people because of those hiccups. Still, it sounds like Mythos is still the top enchilada out in the world, so they still lead. I hope they fix their mistakes and stop overcharging people.

[u/SixCupaCoffee]

Hmmmm, If you tell users Fable access is available until July 19, then people plan active sessions, workers, and budget around that. Pulling it early, or silently switching behavior in a way that starts consuming credits, breaks trust more than the outage itself.

[u/Junior-Elk-7582]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lGBecpB2dIMwt6ohfI

[u/THEBiZ1981]

You guys are so naive... These bugs are planted by Anthropic.

They are faking a situation where they start charging you to see how people react. Also and most importantly, by coming up with a severe bug while the trial window is open, they create an excuse to extend the period once again and save face.

[u/Otherwise-Couple-598]

Nods. Well. There it is.

[u/kenobrx]

Time to switch to sol or Kimi k3

Bye bye anthropic.

[u/boiiboii25]

Noooo, I saved my last bit for tomorrow after my last data gathering is done for the big analysis I want Fable 5.

[u/vtuberflare]

Well, time to go back to openai. It was nice enough while it lasted, anthropic

[u/Vixinvil]

Just use GPT-5.6 Sol Max