Anthropic Extends Free Fable 5 to July 19, Then Flips Paid Users to Prepaid Credits at $10/$50 per Million Tokens

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Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access for paid subscribers to July 19 with a 50% rate-limit boost, but after that deadline all Fable 5 usage runs on prepaid credits at $10 per million input / $50 per million output tokens until compute frees up. Subscribers are frustrated that repeated extensions don't reset already-exhausted allowances. This is the concrete economics builders relying on Fable 5 need to plan around — the free window is closing and the token math changes materially next week.