Is claude-fable-5 back yet?

Yes — Fable 5 is back. FableWatch's monitor confirmed claude-fable-5 answering on July 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM ET and alerted the watch. Per Anthropic, it returned with a new safety classifier that routes some cybersecurity-adjacent requests to Opus 4.8. The live status at the top of this page tracks it continuously — and FableWatch now watches for the next Mythos-class model.

Why was claude-fable-5 suspended?

Anthropic suspended access to claude-fable-5 on June 12, 2026, reportedly after a US Commerce Department export-control directive — described in reporting as a letter from Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The specifics are attributed to news outlets and remain partly unconfirmed; FableWatch is not affiliated with Anthropic and does not have inside information.

What is FableWatch watching now?

The next Mythos-class model. Fable 5 was the first Mythos-class release, and the next one — Fable 6, or a 5.1 — is the drop worth being first to. FableWatch pings the claude-fable-5 endpoint every 60 seconds and watches Anthropic's model lineup for new Mythos-class ids; the moment a new state-of-the-art model is live, subscribers are alerted. Our guarantee still stands: if you bought a paid tier and its alert never fired within 90 days of purchase, email us and we'll refund you in full. You're paying for the window, not a gamble.

Is this affiliated with Anthropic?

No. FableWatch isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Anthropic. We built the independent monitor that caught claude-fable-5's July 1 return the minute it happened — and now we watch for the next drop.

Is it a subscription?

No. Every paid tier is a single one-time charge — The Signal and The Swarm both. Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel.

What exactly do I get for paying?

The Signal: you're alerted first — email and push fire instantly the minute a new state-of-the-art model answers, ahead of the free list, with SMS and an automated call to your verified number the same minute. The Swarm: all of that, plus a dedicated VPS that runs a 400+ question set in parallel on the new model on your own Anthropic key, plus GitHub fix suggestions — the Swarm drafts a suggested fix as a comment on your connected repos — with every answer appearing on your dashboard as it's captured (refresh to update).

When do SMS and calls actually fire?

Email and push are instant. SMS and an automated call are live too — US carrier registration (A2P 10DLC) has cleared, so once you verify your number, texts and calls fire the same minute Fable answers. And per our guarantee, if a paid tier never reaches you we refund it in full — you're never out money for a channel that couldn't deliver.

✳ model status

Is it down? We asked the model.

Every model we track, checked by sending it a real request — not by reading someone else's status page. Each lab's official page is linked alongside, because when a provider declares an incident, that is the primary source and this is not.

31online

0degraded

4not answering

20unknown

snapshot 5m ago

AlibabaOnline

Alibaba Cloud status ↗

Qwen 3.8 MaxOnline0.8s · checked 52m ago
Qwen 3.8 FlashOnline4.6s · checked 52m ago
Wan 3.0Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 2h ago

AmazonOnline

AWS health ↗

Nova PremierOnline0.3s · checked 36m ago

Ant GroupOnline

Ling 3.0 FlashOnline0.6s · checked 2h ago
Ring 2.6Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 2h ago

AnthropicOnline

status.claude.com ↗

Fable 5.1Online4.0s · checked 36m ago
Mythos 5Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 1h ago
Mythos 5.1Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 35m ago
Claude Opus 5Unknownour side (400) — not a model fault · checked 1h ago
Fable 5Unknownour side (400) — not a model fault · checked 20m ago
Claude Sonnet 5Online1.9s · checked 20m ago
Claude Opus 4.8Online0.9s · checked 20m ago

Black Forest LabsUnknown

FLUX 3Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 2h ago

DeepReinforceUnknown

Ornith 1.5Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 53m ago

DeepSeekOnline

status.deepseek.com ↗

DeepSeek V4Online0.9s · checked 2h ago

GoogleNot answering

Google AI status ↗

Gemini 3.5 ProUnknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 1h ago
Gemini 3.5 FlashNot answeringprovider returned not-found for this model · checked 1h ago
Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteOnline0.5s · checked 53m ago
Gemini 3.5 TranscribeNot answeringprovider returned not-found for this model · checked 53m ago
Gemini 3.6 FlashOnline0.7s · checked 53m ago
Gemini 3.7 FlashNot answeringprovider returned not-found for this model · checked 2h ago
Gemini 3.8 FlashNot answeringprovider returned not-found for this model · checked 2h ago
Gemma 4Online1.0s · checked 20m ago
Gemini 3.1 ProOnline0.5s · checked 2h ago

IBMOnline

Granite 4.2Online0.1s · checked 5m ago

IFMUnknown

K2 HorizonUnknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 35m ago

InceptionOnline

Mercury 2Online0.1s · checked 5m ago
Mercury 2.5Online0.1s · checked 5m ago

MetaOnline

metastatus.com ↗

Muse Glimmer 30BOnline0.3s · checked 2h ago
Muse Spark 1.2Unknownrouter HTTP 403 — our side, not the model · checked 1h ago
Muse Spark 1.3Unknownrouter HTTP 403 — our side, not the model · checked 52m ago
Muse CodeUnknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 53m ago
Muse ImageUnknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 52m ago
Muse Spark 1.1Unknownrouter HTTP 403 — our side, not the model · checked 2h ago

MiniMaxOnline

minimax.io ↗

MiniMax M3Online0.3s · checked 1h ago
MiniMax-H3Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 1h ago

MoonshotOnline

platform.kimi.ai ↗

Kimi K3Online0.7s · checked 36m ago

NEX AGIUnknown

Nex-N2Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 35m ago
Nex-N2.5Unknownno first-party probe for this id shape · checked 35m ago

OpenAIOnline

status.openai.com ↗

ChatGPT-5.6Online0.3s · checked 1h ago
GPT-6 AstraOnline0.4s · checked 20m ago
GPT-Image-2.5Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 35m ago
GPT-5.5Online0.4s · checked 2h ago

TencentOnline

Hy4Online1.6s · checked 5m ago

Thinking MachinesOnline

thinkingmachines.ai ↗

Inkling-SmallOnline0.3s · checked 36m ago
InklingOnline0.1s · checked 1h ago

Zhipu AIOnline

docs.z.ai ↗

GLM-5.3Online0.2s · checked 5m ago
GLM-5.3 FlashOnline0.2s · checked 36m ago
GLM-5.2Online0.3s · checked 1h ago

xAIOnline

status.x.ai ↗

Grok 4.5Online0.2s · checked 52m ago
Grok 4.6Online0.3s · checked 2h ago
Grok 4.20Online0.6s · checked 2h ago
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0Unknownno callable id in the router catalog · checked 2h ago
Grok 4Online0.2s · checked 2h ago

What the colours mean

Onlineanswered a real request on the last check
Degradedanswering slowly, recovering, or one failed check so far
Not answeringthe provider says this model is not servable right now
Unknownno reading — our key, quota or network, not the model

Grey is deliberate. A model we cannot reach because of our own key, quota or network is not a model that is down, and saying otherwise would be the most damaging thing this page could do — it has happened before, on this codebase, for four days. Red means the provider itself told us the model is not servable, and it takes two consecutive confirmations.

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