Anthropic's free Fable 5 window closes July 19, then paid usage flips to prepaid credits.

BleepingComputer reports Anthropic extended free Fable 5 for paid subscribers to July 19 with a 50% rate-limit boost, but after that all Fable 5 usage runs on prepaid credits at $10/M input and $50/M output until compute frees up. Subscribers are annoyed that repeated extensions don't reset already-exhausted allowances. If you've built anything on Fable 5, the token math changes materially next week. Plan the migration or the budget now, not on the 20th.