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Claude make Fable 5 permanent

Anthropic reversed its plan to remove Claude Fable 5 from subscription plans, instead making it permanent in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, after competition from GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi 3 made the original removal untenable. Pro and Team Standard users retain access via usage credits with a one-time $100 credit.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 18, 2026

@claudeai

account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits.

Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit.

As I was saying last week, the competition from GPT-5.6 Sol (and maybe to a lesser extent Kimi 3) made untenable Anthropic's plan to remove Fable 5 from their subscription accounts and make it available exclusively through API pricing.

Why pay $100 or $200/month for a subscription plan that doesn't include Anthropic's best model?

Their original plan was driven by concerns over compute capacity. I wonder if they'll have to dial back their training efforts in order to make more GPUs available to help serve the model.

A lot of people were losing sleep over trying to make the most of Fable 5 before subscriber access was withdrawn. It's nice not to have to worry about the Fablepocalypse any more.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, llm-pricing, claude-mythos-fable

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