Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Advice for gift-card Claude subscriptions: after a ban, appeal to Apple for a prorated refund instead of waiting on Claude's appeal, which can waste half a month.

The author links three source posts on a tutorial, a discussion, and a Claude account suspension refund follow-up, plus a homemade ban-themed mini game.

A user posts a video saying Anthropic suspended their account, describing the experience as feeling like hell.

A user asks in a thread whether using Claude in a particular way makes account bans less likely.

A user recounts losing all accounts overnight, endorses tips like aged accounts, avoiding Claude, and home broadband, says there's no safe zone, and has moved to a Gemini reverse proxy.

A user says their Claude account was fine for a year on a clean datacenter IP, then got banned after switching to a Japan DMIT node; they are unsure of the cause and hesitant to resubscribe.

A user argues stable Claude use does not exist: bans mainly track payment method and abnormal usage, and iOS plus PayPal plus a CMB card only delays the inevitable.

The author says Claude and Duo are now integrated, but jokes that one account is banned and the other is unaffordable, so neither is usable.

A user whose Claude account was banned tried Grok bot on a friend's recommendation and says it feels like a different species from coding agents, closer to AGI.

In a reply, a user says at least Kimi does not ban accounts and accuses Claude of treating Chinese users unfairly, a complaint about Claude's ban policy.

The poster says a US employee topping up Claude for his team during a mainland China business trip led to the whole company account being banned the next day, with the balance unwithdrawable.

Indie developer Damon Chen, a US green card holder running a US company, had his Claude Team account banned two days after renewing when he traveled to China; Anthropic cited regional policy and said it cannot be reversed.