Claude Fable 5 Comes Off Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise Plans June 23 — Now Usage-Credit Only After Just ~4-5 Effective Free Days
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As of June 23 Claude Fable 5 is no longer bundled at no extra cost in Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans; continued use now draws on usage credits. The wrinkle: Fable 5 was offline June 12 to ~June 18 under the US export-control directive, so subscribers effectively got roughly 4-5 of the advertised 13 free days. For daily Claude Code users this is a concrete cost change — the top SWE-bench Verified model (95%) is now metered again, pushing builders to weigh credit burn against Opus 4.8 or open-weight alternatives.