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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.

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Included in subscription Standard From July 20, Fable 5 is included as standard on all Max and Team Premium plans, at up to 50% of usage limits - now a permanent part of the plan, not a temporary extension.

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

Pro & Team Standard Usage credits Pro and Team Standard keep Fable 5 access through usage credits, plus a one-time $100 credit.

Included access is now standard on Max and Team Premium - no cutoff. Confirmed Jul 18

The earlier July 19 end date for included access has been dropped. From July 20, Fable 5 is a standard part of Max and Team Premium at 50% of limits; Pro and Team Standard use usage credits (one-time $100 credit). API access ($10 / $50 per million tokens) is unaffected.

Fable 5 news

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DateSourceTitle

Jul 18, 2026 x.com/claudeai
Fable 5 becomes standard on Max and Team Premium
Beginning July 20, Fable 5 is included at 50% of limits on all Max and Team Premium plans - no longer a temporary extension. Pro and Team Standard keep access via usage credits and receive a one-time $100 credit. Anthropic cites hard-to-predict demand and newly secured capacity.
Jul 12, 2026 x.com/claudeai
Paid-plan access extended through July 19
Anthropic extends Fable 5 access on all paid plans, and keeps Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19. Up to half of weekly usage can go to Fable 5; usage credits apply after that.
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.