Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user asks Anthropic whether running a Claude Code subscription through the Hermes Agent DirectSDK plugin violates ToS and risks a ban.

The poster says a US national's Claude account was banned immediately after traveling to China, arguing location rather than nationality is the real gate.

A user says their Claude account was banned and worries they can't work without it and may soon lose their job.

A user says Claude banned them even with a US Mac, matching IP, country and timezone, suspecting detection of Chinese usage in conversations.

A user says their Claude account was banned even while using UU remote desktop to a Mac in the US, mocking Anthropic's ban tactics.

An unverified claim that Claude now lists China as a region, supports UnionPay, and lets permanently banned Chinese users appeal, with some reportedly succeeding.

A user complains that Claude Code accounts get banned even after paying, and the money is not refunded.

A reply warns that both Claude and GPT risk controls favor residential IPs; free ones can get flagged as datacenter ranges, so self-hosted IPs need regular purity checks before a ban hits.

A user says DMIT LA plus a Hong Kong card is now a ban combo, since Anthropic cross-checks payment region, IP location and billing info and bans fast when one mismatches.

A video on dividing work among Codex, Claude, Grok Bot and local models to save tokens, including a section on avoiding account bans with an overseas Mac mini and IP-KVM.

A site called Claude Code Radar lets people memorialize banned Claude accounts with dates, plan, appeal outcome and epitaph, and browse others' ban stories.

A user says they use Claude normally and simply open a new account when banned, as long as they don't push usage to the limit.