Anthropic Reverses Course: Fable 5 Becomes Permanent on Max and Team Premium at 50% of Usage Limits, Pro Drops to API Billing July 20

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Anthropic published 'Redeploying Fable 5' on July 18, making the model a permanent subscription feature for Max and Team Premium — but metered at 50% of standard weekly limits, and those standard limits themselves shrink July 20 as a Claude Code promotion expires. Pro and Team Standard lose subscription access entirely: a one-time $100 usage credit, then API rates of $10/M input and $50/M output. The original plan was to drop Fable 5 from subscriptions altogether; the reversal follows GPT-5.6 Sol reaching GA July 9 at $5/M input and $30/M output — half the input cost and 60% of the output cost.