Fable gone – Usage credits are required for this model

9 points by valdezm 17 days ago | 5 comments

Claude We’re extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as our increased Claude Code rate limits, through July 19.

Despite this, today on July 17, 2026 at 11:25 AM PST

> `Usage credits are required for this model.`

valdezm 17 days ago |

Back to horrible jargon-enriched codified-induced output of Opus. The most unclear model in the world.

ahsillyme 17 days ago | |

Sonnet 5 is probably better than Opus 4.8 in many cases -- you may want to try it; I now use only Fable and Sonnet unless the task is explicitly one where Opus can't de-scope and be lazy (e.g. replicating exactly a system as a coarse model to be used for refactoring-and-lowering, (model system in Idris) is the last thing I used Opus for because it had no choice but to stay on scope).

ChrisArchitect 17 days ago |

Discussion on the bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950477

ls612 17 days ago |

Same happened to me just now. Also, the Fable Usage bar is no longer displayed in the Usage page.

valdezm 17 days ago |

They just wanted to give everyone time to think about the billing model switch over the weekend.