Nineteen days after it went dark, Claude Fable 5 is back — everywhere, for everyone. Anthropic restored the model globally today across the Claude Platform (the API), claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, one day after the Commerce Department lifted the export controls that forced the June 12 suspension. AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry are re-enabling the model now, so cloud availability may lag direct access by a beat (VentureBeat has the enterprise rundown; The Hacker News and Tom's Hardware cover the restoration).
Nothing to change in your config
The detail that matters most to builders: the model id is still claude-fable-5, and API pricing is still $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output. If you left the id in a setting, an environment variable, or an agent config when the model went dark, that config works again today with zero changes. There is no new id, no migration, no re-integration — requests that failed yesterday succeed this morning.
The return window: July 1–7
Subscription access comes back with a make-good window. Through July 7, Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans include Fable 5 at 50% of weekly usage limits. After July 7, using Fable 5 on those plans requires usage credits — the same regime that took effect June 23, before the suspension interrupted it.
Enterprise splits by tier: standard Enterprise is credits-only with no included allowance, while premium Enterprise includes the model through July 7 and then moves to credits. API and consumption-based access has no window at all — just the unchanged per-token price.
Note what the window is and is not. The original launch promise was Fable 5 free on paid plans through June 22 — fourteen days, of which subscribers actually got three before the June 12 pullback. What returns today is seven days at half limits. Anthropic is calling that the restoration terms; a vocal slice of subscribers is calling it something less polite, and we cover that backlash — along with the new safety classifier that came back with the model — in a separate story today.
What came back different
The model itself returns with a new safety classifier targeting the cyber jailbreak that triggered the suspension — Anthropic says it blocks the technique in more than 99% of cases, and admits the wider net catches some legitimate coding work. Mythos 5 remains US-organizations-only for now, expanding through Project Glasswing. The platform documentation is current again, and yesterday's Sonnet 5 launch means the returning flagship sits atop a refreshed lineup.
What to do about it
If you subscribe to Pro, Max, or Team, the clock is running: you have through July 7 at half limits, so queue your hardest real task now — the long agentic run, the gnarly migration, the thing Opus couldn't finish — and find out whether post-window credits will be worth it to you. If you build on the API, resume where you left off; nothing about your integration changed. And if you run on Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Foundry, check your console before assuming an error — re-enablement is in progress, not necessarily finished.