Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
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/)
Discussion Highlights (19 comments)
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.
svemyh
can confirm
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
beardsciences
Can confirm, just now.
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.
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.
bavell
Same 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...
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.