[Bug] Incorrectly Prompts for API Credits Despite Active Subscription Usage Limit

[syx-labs]

Bug Description
Saying I need "credit" for this model, but I've limit usage in my subscription yet.

Environment Info

• Platform: darwin
• Terminal: Maestri
• Version: 2.1.212
• Feedback ID: e611720d-6a36-4f1d-bef3-2b934082d6d2

Errors

[]

[ldideric]

same problem:
Usage credits are required for this model.
even though Fable is available in the normal subscription until the 19th without usage credits.

[christopher-buss]

yep mines just kicked me out mid conversation suddenly - I had even checked about 10 minutes ago and I was only at 45% fable usage.

[nexcrux]

same.. happened mid conversation!

[Rich5]

Same issue. Was working fine all morning and now it's gone.

[lukaszszczesniak]

Same!
but it's probably a backend failure and not the claude code, because Fable is also unavailable on the website (same error message)

[yxi8]

Same here. Fable 5 usage tracker disappeared. And I got the "Usage credits are required for this model." message.

[iam-liam]

Same here, just been kicked out of using fable even though I had 50% usage left until 19th. The fable meter had disappeared from the usage stats, which I thought was odd, then the prompt saying I'd used all my credits popped up

[mohamedessam2391-cpu]

Same issue on Windows desktop / Claude Code cloud sessions.

• Fable 5 was available under the active subscription and expected to remain available until July 19.
• The Fable usage meter disappeared unexpectedly.
• An active Fable session was interrupted mid-task.
• Subsequent attempts showed: Usage credits are required for this model.
• The account still had subscription usage remaining before the model disappeared.
• The failure affected both an existing running session and a newly resumed task.

This appears to be a backend entitlement/model-availability regression rather than normal quota exhaustion.

[powell-clark]

You're right to flag this — you caught the same thing several of us did today. Quick justification for the cross-link, so it doesn't read as me swiping your issue: it's the same root cause, and the team will move faster on one clear consolidated thread than on a scatter of "usage credits" reports.

My read is it isn't a billing glitch — Fable 5 looks to have been intentionally moved to API-only billing, so it returns "Usage credits are required for this model" even with subscription usage left.

I've written that up at #78613 with the case for keeping a subscription path (or at least publishing the rationale). If it'd help you, a 👍 and a note on your use case there would concentrate the signal — full credit to you for reporting it first.