Artificial intelligence company Anthropic recently announced that it has decided to continue to extend access to its Claude Fable 5 flagship model in all paid subscription plans. The deadline for this policy has been postponed from July 12 to July 19. Meanwhile, Claude Code's weekly rate cap will also continue to be capped at 50% above the regular rate until the same date.
During this extension, users' use of Fable 5 will still count toward half of their weekly subscription limit at no additional cost. When the user's quota is exhausted, or the extension window is officially closed, the system will automatically switch to the regular usage quota within the subscription plan.
Analysts pointed out that Anthropic’s move is one of the strategies adopted to retain developers in the context of increasingly fierce competition in the AI industry. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series of models were officially opened to the public last week, and early test data shows that it performs well in programming and logical reasoning tasks, even tying or surpassing Fable 5 in some dimensions.
The industry generally believes that this postponement also includes Anthropic’s consideration of trying to repair its brand image. The Fable 5 model was released with the company's new "Mythos" level plan on June 9, but was suspended by government authorities for security compliance reasons just three days later, and service was interrupted for 19 days. Access to the model was not restored until July 1 after the relevant control measures were lifted, and Anthropic has since extended the free access limit several times. At this time, Anthropic has not given a clear timeline for returning Fable 5 to a standard subscription feature.