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Anthropic is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, along with the 50% higher Claude Code weekly rate limits, through July 19.

Anthropic pushed back the cutoff date for Fable 5 availability on paid Claude plans, and kept the boosted Claude Code rate limits, until July 19. ✦ AI generated

Anthropic · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-12 · original ↗

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We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

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Anthropic restricted Fable access due to compute constraints, wanting clearer visibility into demand and compute availability before committing to keeping the new model cheap for subscribers.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 60%

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Anthropic should make Fable permanently available on paid plans instead of continuing to extend temporary cutoff dates.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 65%