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563563## Where it works
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565Fallback credit is in beta on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Refusals in [Message Batches](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/batch-processing) don't mint credit tokens, and redemption applies only to direct Messages API requests: a token passed on a batch request is accepted but ignored.
565Fallback credit is in beta on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Refusals in [Message Batches](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/batch-processing) don't mint credit tokens, and redemption applies only to direct Messages API requests: a token passed on a batch request is accepted but ignored. A Claude Haiku 5.5 refusal carries no fallback credit, so a retry after one pays the full cost of writing the fallback model's prompt cache.
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567The retry model must be one of the refused model's permitted fallback targets. For Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Fable 5, those are Claude Opus 4.8 (`claude-opus-4-8`) and Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`).
567The retry model must be one of the refused model's permitted fallback targets. For Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5.5, those are Claude Opus 4.8 (`claude-opus-4-8`) and Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`). For Claude Opus 5, it is Claude Opus 4.8. For Claude Sonnet 5.5, it is Claude Sonnet 5 (`claude-sonnet-5`).
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569569<Accordion title="Looking up permitted fallback targets programmatically">
570570 On the Claude API and Claude Platform on AWS, the target list is published as `allowed_fallback_models` on each model's entry in the [Models API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/models/list) when the `server-side-fallback-2026-07-01` beta header is set. The list is not yet visible under the `fallback-credit-*` header alone. It is not exposed on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Foundry.
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