Anthropic slashes Claude Fable 5 limits in Max and Team Premium and pushes Pro users toward API pricing

Anthropic acknowledged that Fable demand has been hard to manage and frustrating for users, and that it’s continuing to invest in more capacity. The company originally planned to pull Fable from subscription plans entirely.

The reversal likely has to do with competition: OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, a model with similar performance at a third of the cost. There’s also massive pricing pressure from China for everything below the frontier tier. Follow The Decoder for AI news, background stories and expert analyses.