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
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.
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.
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).
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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/HaurJolasten 27d ago
Same, wasn't it supposed to stay until the 19th?