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.

@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 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. 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 A lot of people were losing sleep over trying to make the most of Fable 5 before subscriber access was withdrawn.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 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