New code strings in Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code v2.1.190 hint at the return of the export-control-suspended model Claude Fable 5, apparently bundled into subscriptions with a weekly usage limit. No official relaunch has been confirmed.
June 24-25, 2026 · Anthropic / Claude Code
Code Strings Hint at the Return of Suspended "Fable 5" — Now Bundled With a Weekly Cap
New strings in Claude Code v2.1.190 drop "purchased separately" and add weekly-quota language — suggesting the export-control-suspended Claude Fable 5 may return inside subscriptions. No official relaunch has been confirmed.
<5%
of sessions trigger safety refusals
3 days
from launch (Jun 9) to suspension (Jun 12)
Migrating Stripe's 50M-line Ruby codebase
Time to complete — before vs. with Fable 5 (vertical blocks ≈ duration)
The string change: a billing shift in the code
Removed
"purchased separately from your plan"
→
Added
"weekly usage limit" · "included usage" · "Run /usage-credits to keep using Fable 5"
Read as a sign Fable 5 may move from a separate purchase to subscription-included (e.g. Max plan), capped by a weekly quota. Also reappeared in the Amazon Bedrock catalog.
Praised
Top scores on CursorBench & FrontierCode
Strong on long, complex agentic tasks
SOTA-class in SWE, vision & long-horizon work
Criticized
Frequent refusals, especially on cybersecurity
Slow responses, high cost, tight rate limits
Reliability felt slipped vs. Opus 4.8
Class
Mythos-class (above Opus)
Pricing
$10 in / $50 out per M tokens
API model ID
claude-fable-5
No formal relaunch announcement exists — the code string changes should be treated only as a sign.
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