Anthropic announced revised Claude Fable 5 access plans on X, stating that Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but with sharply reduced limits. The bonus usage phase ends the same day, cutting regular limits by 33 percent, and Fable 5 will only be available at 50 percent of those already reduced limits. Pro and Team Standard subscribers effectively lose access, receiving a one-time $100 usage credit before having to pay API prices. Anthropic acknowledged that Fable demand has been hard to manage and frustrating for users, and that it is continuing to invest in more capacity. The company originally planned to pull Fable from subscription plans entirely, a reversal likely due to competition: OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, a model with similar performance at a third of the cost, and there is massive pricing pressure from China for everything below the frontier tier.