Claude Fable 5 status: live — in-plan on Max, credits on Pro

Quick summary

• Live now (since July 20): Fable 5 stays in-plan on Max and Team Premium (up to 50% of weekly limits), while Pro and Team Standard run on usage credits with a one-time $100 credit.
• From July 20 the plans split: Max and Team Premium keep Fable 5 in-plan (up to 50% of weekly limits — Anthropic now calls the restoration permanent), while Pro and Team Standard move to usage credits at $10 / $50 per million tokens, softened by a one-time $100 credit.
• The $100 credit for Pro and Team Standard is one-time and applies automatically; once spent, Fable 5 bills at $10 / $50 per million tokens.
• Mythos 5 — the less-restricted sibling — remains limited to a set of vetted US organizations, not the general public.

Latest: Fable 5 is back worldwide

On June 30, 2026 the US government lifted the export controls it had placed on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and on July 1 Anthropic restored Fable 5 globally — on the Claude platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic says it is re-enabling access on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry as quickly as possible. Mythos 5, the less-restricted sibling, remains limited to a set of vetted US organizations. Anthropic also launched Claude Sonnet 5 — a cheaper model for running agents — at the same time.

The extensions: the window keeps moving

Fable 5's plan-included window was scheduled to end July 7. Anthropic has extended the window twice — to July 12 on July 8, then to July 19 on July 12. Fable 5 stayed included on all paid plans through July 19, capped at 50% of the weekly usage limit, with each change applying automatically. On July 18 Anthropic settled the question, in effect since July 20: Max and Team Premium keep Fable 5 in-plan permanently (up to 50% of limits), while Pro and Team Standard move to usage credits at $10/$50 per million — with a one-time $100 credit to soften the switch. There is no separate 'free Fable 5.'

How the shutdown happened

The freeze began on June 12, when the US government applied export controls — rules limiting which foreign nationals can access a technology — to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The trigger was a cybersecurity finding: Amazon researchers reported a jailbreak that got Fable 5 to identify software vulnerabilities and, in one case, produce exploit code. Because access couldn't be restricted by nationality in real time, Anthropic suspended both models for everyone. The episode pushed Anthropic and US agencies into closer collaboration on model testing and jailbreak-risk standards.

How to get Fable 5 now

If you have a Max or Team Premium plan, Fable 5 is selectable in Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork and included in-plan (up to 50% of your weekly limit); on Pro and Team Standard it runs on usage credits since July 20 (one-time $100 credit). Cloud access (AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry) has been re-enabled in stages. If you switched to another model during the outage, you don't have to switch back: the open-weight GLM-5.2 is still far cheaper and close on coding, and the new Sonnet 5 is a cheaper agentic option covered by your plan.

What to watch next

The next signals worth tracking: when (and whether) Anthropic restores Fable 5 to subscription plans — the company says it aims to, as capacity allows — any change to the $10 / $50 credit rate, and how Sonnet 5 and the still-gated GPT-5.6 change the value math. We update this page the day anything lands.

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