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Claude Fable 5

Availability on Claude subscription plans and extra usage credits. News and system status are monitored continuously by Firecrawl /monitor.

Included in subscription Live Available on Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans for up to 50% of weekly usage limits.

Claude system status Operational No known incidents affecting Fable 5, per status.claude.com.

Extra usage credits only From Jul 8 From July 8, subscription-included access ends and Fable 5 is available on paid plans only via usage credits.

Included-in-subscription access ends July 7, 2026.

From July 8, Fable 5 is billed through usage credits on paid Claude plans. API access ($10 / $50 per million tokens) is unaffected.

Fable 5 news

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DateSourceTitle

Jul 1, 2026 anthropic.com
Fable 5 redeployed and available globally
Access restored on the Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork after US export controls were lifted on June 30. Cloud availability (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry) to follow.
Jun 30, 2026 anthropic.com
New safety classifier ships with the redeploy
An improved classifier blocks the reported safeguard bypass in over 99% of cases; blocked requests fall back to Claude Opus 4.8, with users notified.
Jun 12, 2026 anthropic.com
Access suspended under US export controls
Export controls applied after a reported safeguard bypass forced Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users while nationality-verification requirements could not be met.
Jun 9, 2026 anthropic.com
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 launch
A Mythos-class model made safe for general use: state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks, 1M-token context, priced at $10 / $50 per million input/output tokens.
Jun 9, 2026 simonwillison.net
Simon Willison: initial impressions
"Something of a beast" - slow and expensive, but happily churning through everything thrown at it; 1M context, 128K max output, January 2026 knowledge cutoff. Willison notes the challenge is finding tasks it cannot do.