Fable 5 is Back • Hacker News Board

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by rvz » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:50 PM UTC

They also announced a promotional offer in here: [0]

> For a limited time, you can use our newest model—Claude Fable 5—at no extra cost as part of your subscription plan.

> During the promotional period, you can use up to 50% of your weekly subscription limits on Claude Fable 5 at no extra cost.

So it lasts for a week until July 7, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT. Then they will pull the plug on that.

So it sounds like a great time to roll the dice, pull that lever, spin that roulette wheel and spend as many tokens as possible, at no extra cost at the Anthropic casino's latest upgraded slot machine called Fable 5.

Available to gamblers while capacity and availability lasts. Most importantly have fun and don't blow up your budget.

[0] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable...

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by recursive » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:50 PM UTC

cevn wrote: post #9

recursive wrote: post #7

This is getting served with a certificate Firefox says was created by an unknown issuer. It's possible I'm getting hit by a corporate middle-box, but then I'd expect to get this on every single host name.

twitter? are u sure it's not ur corporate?

Update: It is my company's middleware box. I'm not sure why I'm not seeing this flagged on other sites.

Update2: They're blocking all (not HN!) social media now because someone got catfished on whatsapp or something.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by bushido » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:50 PM UTC

The loss of trust in using US based model's is unlikely to come back though.

Anthropic with it's hyped doomsday messaging, and the administration falling for it (at best), has eroded a lot of trust and has triggered an arms race of sorts.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by hagbarth » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

aliasxneo wrote: post #6

> Until July 7, you can use up to 50% of your plan's weekly usage limit on Fable 5. If you hit your limit, you can continue on Fable 5 with usage credits. Fable 5 draws down usage faster than Opus 4.8. This is what I see in my Claude Code terminal. I don't feel like that 50% rule was there before?

It was not.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by himata4113 » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

I believe they will keep fable available, but either reduce the usage to 25% or even 10% otherwise I don't think they would have put that much effort into flushing out a system like that.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by mccoyb » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

By the gods! The next 20 minutes will be the most consequential of my life ...

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by recursive » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #8

Was confused, thinking I somehow missed the release of the game Fable 4, only to be disappointed when I saw this is about Claude LLM crap.

It's kind of like that time "crypto" changed it's meaning to cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by JoshGlazebrook » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

I really hope they reconsider adding Fable access back to the subscription plans, at least the 20x plan. I know it was the original intention when the 14 day (I think) time frame was originally announced, and they were working to keep it on subscription plans. But no word if thats even a thing anymore?

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by coneonthefloor » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

mlitwiniuk wrote: post #10

I have to admit that when it was blocked, I canceled my max plan and asked for a refund. It felt like someone took away my previous toy. So I'm happy it's back again; I upgraded to max again. Coding aside, but Claude Design is phenomenal - for both new designs and redesigning existing UIs. So my customers will face a new wave of refreshed screens all over the place in coming days ;)

> So my customers will face a new wave of refreshed screens all over the place in coming days

How do you determine the changes to make?

Do you A/B test?

How do you measure success?

What is your product?

How many customers do you have?

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

I really hope they reconsider adding Fable access back to the subscription plans, at least the 20x plan. I know it was the original intention when the 14 day (I think) time frame was originally announced, and they were working to keep it on subscription plans. But no word if thats even a thing anymore?

Only for the next week.

> Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits.