{"id":23332,"date":"2026-07-17T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/is-claudes-fable-5-down-anthropic-responds-as-users-report-usage-credits-are-required-error\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:20:23","slug":"is-claudes-fable-5-down-anthropic-responds-as-users-report-usage-credits-are-required-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/is-claudes-fable-5-down-anthropic-responds-as-users-report-usage-credits-are-required-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Claude&#8217;s Fable 5 down? Anthropic responds as users report \u2018usage credits are required\u2019 error"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"storyParagraphFigure\" readability=\"35\">\n<p class=\"content\">Users of Anthropic AI-chatbot Claude reported issues with Fable, flagship AI model. Users complained about receiving a &ldquo;usage credits are required&rdquo; error. They said Fable 5 vanished from Claude Code and selecting it would prompt the &ldquo;usage credits are required&rdquo; message.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"artImage leadImage\">\n<div class=\" \"><picture class=\"leadImageClass\"><source media=\"(min-width:768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2026\/07\/17\/550x309\/claude_fable_1784313913099_1784313913231_0919fe0d-bcd2-4d70-9b09-f63334621c5d.JPG\" alt=\"Representational. (REUTERS\/Representational)\"><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class>Representational. (REUTERS\/Representational)<span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"content \">Claude acknowledged the issue with Fable, which, according to its website, is &ldquo;flagship Mythos-class AI model, designed for long-running, autonomous knowledge work and complex coding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">&ldquo;We are aware of an issue preventing users from selecting Claude Fable 5 Claude AI, Claude Code, and other surfaces, and are working to resolve this issue,&rdquo; a message on the company&rsquo;s status page read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">At 2:48pm EDT, the status page contained another update which said that a fix has been applied, and services are expected to be back up for all soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">&ldquo;We have applied a fix to resolve the erroneous requirement for usage credits on Fable 5, and are monitoring to ensure no further issues,&rdquo; the update read. &ldquo;You may need to relaunch Claude.ai or Claude Code to restore access as expected.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Hundreds of users also reported issues with Claude Fable 5 on Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users&rsquo; reports. More than 400 users reported the issue at the peak of the outage on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"content \"><i>This story is being updated.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Is Claude&rsquo;s Fable 5 down? Anthropic responds as users report &lsquo;usage credits are required&rsquo; error<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Anthropic AI-chatbot Claude reported issues with Fable, flagship AI model. Users complained about receiving a &ldquo;usage credits are required&rdquo; error. They said Fable 5 vanished from Claude Code and selecting it would prompt the &ldquo;usage credits are required&rdquo; message. Representational. (REUTERS\/Representational) Claude acknowledged the issue with Fable, which, according to its website, is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/is-claudes-fable-5-down-anthropic-responds-as-users-report-usage-credits-are-required-error\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Is Claude&#8217;s Fable 5 down? Anthropic responds as users report \u2018usage credits are required\u2019 error&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}