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Outage in Anthropic

Fable 5 requiring usage credits on Max plans

Resolved Minor
July 20, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 8 hours
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Summary AI Generated

A bug caused some Claude Code Max plan users to be incorrectly prompted to spend usage credits to access Claude 4.5, despite it being included in their plan. The issue lasted approximately 8 hours before being resolved. Affected users were advised to restart Claude Code as the fix.

Some Claude Code Max plan users were incorrectly prompted to use usage credits to access Fable 5, which is included in their plan. If you were affected, please restart Claude Code.

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RESOLVED 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 03:35PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 07/20/2026 07:35AM

Some Claude Code Max plan users were incorrectly prompted to use usage credits to access Fable 5, which is included in their plan. If you were affected, please restart Claude Code.

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