The Internet Is Furious at Anthropic After Claude Fable 5 Release

Crypto Insight Summary: Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt](https://img.decrypt.co/insecure/rs:fit:3840:0:0:0/plain/https://cdn.decrypt.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/decrypt-style-angry-man-gID_7.png@webp) Someone on the internet is angry. * Claude Fable 5 burns through subscription limits roughly twice as fast as Opus 4.8—one test drained a $100 Max plan in under nine minutes. * Fable 5 and Mythos 5 come with mandatory 30-day data retention. But it launched with some heavy complaints attached: It burns tokens at a ruinous rate; it secretly self-sabbotages for certain research tasks; and it forces every user into a 30-day data retention policy with no exceptions. Fable 5 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens—double what Claude Opus 4.8 runs. Fable 5 counts double against usage limits compared to Opus, meaning the same work on Fable drains your plan allowance twice as fast before you've paid a cent in API fees. Bleeping Computer [also tested Fable](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-rolls-out-claude-fable-5-but-its-available-for-a-limited-time/) and found it drained a $100 Max subscription's daily allowance in just under nine minutes. It burned 1.3M tokens in 7 minutes. That's $160 per hour. Equivalent to a $333k/year salary," he [posted on X](https://twitter.com/perborgen/status/2064650839055052823). Crypto Insight Analysis: Direction: Bearish AI tokens Impact: Minor Impact Horizon: Short-term (1-3 days) Reasoning: High token burn rate raises concerns about AI model sustainability, potentially dampening sentiment.