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A lot of people were losing sleep over trying to make the most of Fable 5 before subscriber access was withdrawn.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

Update: Important to note that users on the $20/month plan will still not have access to Fable 5 on that subscription. The Max plans are $100 and $200/month.