TechTimes and other outlets reported that Anthropic's enhanced access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers ran out late on July 19 — the end of a promotional window the company had already extended three times in five weeks. From here, Fable 5 usage shifts onto Anthropic's prepaid credit system, with the highest tiers keeping a share of it inside their normal limits. Anthropic's own posts explain the backdrop: Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were pulled entirely in June under US export controls, then restored on July 1 once those controls were lifted. The repeated extensions suggest a company still working out how to price a frontier model that is expensive to serve. Worth watching: whether an Opus 5 launch resets the tiering again.