Anthropic cuts Claude Fable 5 limits, pushes Pro users to API pricing

Anthropic will add Claude Fable 5 to Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but at only half of regular usage limits, which are themselves being cut by a third the same day. Pro plan subscribers get a one-time $100 credit before shifting to pay-per-use API rates.

Why it matters: This reverses Anthropic's earlier plan to keep Fable out of subscription plans entirely, likely a response to competitive pressure from OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 Sol. It signals that serving frontier models at flat subscription prices is getting harder to sustain economically, a tension other labs will likely face too.