{"slug": "claude-make-fable-5-permanent", "title": "Claude make Fable 5 permanent", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "`@claudeai`\n\naccount on Twitter:\nBeginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits.\n\nPro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit.\n\nAs I was saying [last week](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/), the competition from [GPT-5.6 Sol](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/gpt-5-6/) (and maybe to a lesser extent [Kimi 3](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/)) made untenable Anthropic's plan to remove Fable 5 from their subscription accounts and make it available exclusively through API pricing.\n\nWhy pay $100 or $200/month for a subscription plan that *doesn't* include Anthropic's best model?\n\nTheir 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the model.\n\nA lot of people were losing sleep over trying to make the most of Fable 5 before subscriber access was withdrawn.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.\n\nTags: [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [anthropic](https://simonwillison.net/tags/anthropic), [claude](https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude), [llm-pricing](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-pricing), [claude-mythos-fable](https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-mythos-fable)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-make-fable-5-permanent", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/18/claude-make-fable-5-permanent/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-07-18 06:00:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-18 06:08:05.778889+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Fable 5", "GPT-5.6 Sol", "Kimi 3", "Max", "Team Premium", "Pro", "Team Standard"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-make-fable-5-permanent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-make-fable-5-permanent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-make-fable-5-permanent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-make-fable-5-permanent.jsonld"}}