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Anthropic has extended included access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers until July 19, marking the third extension since its June launch. While users welcomed the extra access, many criticised the company's repeated last-minute renewals instead of confirming a permanent place for the AI model in subscriptions.

Anthropic has extended included access to Claude Fable 5 on its paid subscription plans through July 19, the company announced. It is the second extension in a week, and the third overall since the model's rocky launch in June, with users increasingly frustrated by the pattern of short, last-minute renewals rather than a firm long-term commitment.

How Fable 5 got here?

Claude Fable 5 launched on June 9 with free access on paid plans originally promised through June 22. That window was cut short just three days in, when a US Department of Commerce export-control order forced Anthropic to suspend both Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 globally on June 12. Access stayed dark for roughly three weeks until the Commerce Department lifted the controls on June 30, after which Anthropic restored the models on July 1 under a new, more limited structure, capping included usage at 50 per cent of a subscriber's weekly limit rather than offering unrestricted access.

Under the July 1 terms, the 50 percent included allowance was due to run out on July 7. Hours before that deadline, Anthropic pushed it to July 12. Then, in the early hours of July 13, shortly after the July 12 cutoff had already passed, the company announced a further extension to July 19, stating in its support article, "We've extended this promotion through July 19, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT."