[Bug] Fable 5 model unavailable in Claude Code CLI despite active Claude Max subscription
Status Fixed / completed
Reported on v2.1.216
Maintainer reply None cached
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in thread ↓
Activity 6 comments · opened Jul 21, 2026 · closed Jul 23, 2026
Bug Description
Fable 5 on Claude Code CLI return this message: Switch to Fable 5?
Fable 5 runs on usage credits, purchased separately from your plan.
You don't have usage credits yet.
1. Set up usage credits on claude.ai
❯ 2. No, keep my current model
On Claude Desktop Fable 5 is open normally, only claude CLI i'm reporting this bug. My plan is Claude Max 20x, version system on CLI v2.1.216
Environment Info
- Platform: win32
- Terminal: windows-terminal
- Version: 2.1.216
- Feedback ID: 859d859d-c2cc-4bbb-b09f-9a263c69b94e
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6 Comments
Sorry but did you even bother to search the open issues. There are at least half a dozen
do you have
DISABLE_TELEMETRYturned on? switch it off and restart claude, eventually re-loginFiling a report with full environment details is exactly what issue trackers are for. If maintainers consider it a duplicate, they'll mark it as such — that's their call, not ours. In the meantime, the repro info here stands on its own.
I guess you didn't bother to even read the instructions:
p.s. your report is nowhere close to "full" details (the instructions of what to include are quite clear)
Sorry, but, if helping isn't the goal here, I'd invite you to go deliver this same lecture on the remaining half-dozen duplicates you cited — they're presumably just as deserving, and you clearly know where they are. Thanks for the help, :)
I managed to fix it using the following method:
I signed out of and back into my account on Claude Desktop and used the Fable 5 model to perform a task without any CLI terminal open; when I opened the CLI again, the model was available.