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Anthropic Delays Fable 5 Metered Billing Again, Now Through July 19

Anthropic pushed back the cutoff for free, plan-included Claude Fable 5 access for the second time in six days, citing compute capacity. Paid subscribers keep using the model at no extra cost through July 19 at 11:59:59 PM PT.


Anthropic has extended plan-included access to Claude Fable 5 for the second time in less than a week, moving the cutoff from July 12 to July 19 and delaying the shift to metered billing once again.

  • New cutoff: July 19, 2026, 11:59:59 PM PT, up from the July 12 deadline set a week earlier
  • Original cutoff was July 7; this is the second extension in six days
  • Applies to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and premium-seat Enterprise plans, up to 50% of weekly usage limits at no extra cost
  • Claude Code's 50% higher weekly rate limits are extended on the same schedule
  • After July 19, continued Fable 5 use requires prepaid credits at $10/$50 per million tokens (input/output)
We've extended this promotion through July 19, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT. - Anthropic
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