Anthropic incident

Fable 5 requiring usage credits on Max plans

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Anthropic experienced a minor incident on July 20, 2026 affecting Claude Code, lasting 8h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 20, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC
Duration
8h
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC

Affected components

Claude Code

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Jul 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC

    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.

  2. resolved Jul 20, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.