Fable 5 is live again, not locked out for good. Anthropic pulled the model offline worldwide on June 13, 2026, under a US export control order, then redeployed it globally on July 1 after the Commerce Department lifted the controls on June 30. It has been reachable for a week now, still priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. The per-token price did not move during any of this; what disappears tomorrow is the subscription overlap that had been making part of that price invisible. What changes today is narrower and more concrete: the free ride subscribers have had since the relaunch runs out on July 7, and usage credits take over tomorrow, July 8.
What happened between June 13 and July 1
The shutdown followed a US export control order and took Fable 5 offline everywhere at once on June 13, 2026. The Commerce Department lifted those controls on June 30, and Anthropic redeployed the model worldwide the next day, July 1, running an improved safety classifier. Anthropic reports that the update blocks the original jailbreak technique in over 99% of cases. The full sequence, sourced, is in ( today's Fable 5 update ).
Today is the last free day
Since the July 1 redeployment, Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans have had Fable 5 usage included at no extra cost, up to 50% of each plan's weekly limit. That inclusion runs out today, July 7, 2026. From tomorrow, July 8, none of that usage counts against the subscription limit anymore. Every input and output token on Fable 5 has to come from usage credits bought on top of the plan, at the same $10 and $50 per million tokens the model has carried since June.
What $100 actually buys
The math is one division and one multiplication: take $100, divide by the price per million tokens, multiply by a million, and that is the token count. On Fable 5's post-freebie rate:
$100 spent entirely on input: 100 divided by 10, times 1,000,000, equals 10,000,000 input tokens.
$100 spent entirely on output: 100 divided by 50, times 1,000,000, equals 2,000,000 output tokens.
Sonnet 5 became the default model on Free and Pro plans on June 30, 2026, at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, running through August 31, 2026 ( our Sonnet 5 coverage ). Run the same $100 through that rate:
$100 spent entirely on input: 100 divided by 2, times 1,000,000, equals 50,000,000 input tokens.
$100 spent entirely on output: 100 divided by 10, times 1,000,000, equals 10,000,000 output tokens.
Line the two up and the ratio holds exactly: $10 against $2 on input, $50 against $10 on output, a factor of five either way. A hundred dollars in usage credits buys five times as many tokens on Sonnet 5's intro price as it buys on Fable 5, on the input side and on the output side.
Picking a model starting tomorrow
None of this makes Fable 5 the wrong model. It makes it the metered one. What changed on July 1 was the safety classifier and the model's availability, not its price, and what changes today is that a subscription no longer offsets any of it. For anything that does not need Fable 5 specifically, routing the work to Sonnet 5 while the intro price holds is the cheaper path by a clean 5x, and that price has its own deadline: it runs through August 31, 2026, then moves to the regular $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
For a Fable 5 budget starting July 8, the calculation above is the whole exercise: take the usage credit amount, divide by $10 for input or $50 for output, multiply by a million, and that is what is actually available to spend. There is no subscription cushion left to absorb it. That math holds whether the $100 lands as a one-time top-up or a recurring monthly credit purchase: the per-token rate does not change with how the credits are bought, only with which model spends them. For the current lineup and pricing across every Claude model, see ( the Fable 5 hub ).