Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says they've subscribed to Claude Pro for nearly a year without a ban, while the student Gemini channel's eligibility review has been a nightmare.

After an email informed them their Claude account was banned, the poster's first instinct was to ask Claude what to do, and they lament unfinished ideas and small projects left behind.

A reply argues that even after Anthropic goes public, Claude Code will still ban accounts based on compliance red lines rather than stock ticker.

A breakdown of Anthropic's S-1: roughly 5–7% of revenue came from customers later deemed policy-violating, and the filing says customers, not accounts, with no mention of bans or resale.

A user says their IP node suddenly stopped connecting yesterday and then found their Claude account had been banned.

An AI-generated short skit: the account is banned 30 seconds after a $200 membership top-up, support says bans need no reason, and the chairman orders the backup account banned too.

A user says their Claude account, used for a year, was banned, forcing them to renew.

After Anthropic files for an IPO under ticker ANT, the author jokes that buying shares is a ban-proof alternative to paying $20 a month for Claude.

The post estimates banned users contributed roughly $2B of Anthropic's $32.2B nine-month revenue at the 5–7% share cited in its IPO filing.

The author says Claude accounts topped up via resellers die within two hours, while two accounts subscribed through the US App Store with gift cards and a U-card stayed stable for nearly a month.

A commenter argues Claude account bans stem from network environment problems that accumulate over time, and points to their own post on fixing such issues.

Reacting to Anthropic's filing showing an $80.7B first-half net loss, a Chinese commenter jokes that every banned account was booked on its ledger and suggests the ticker be BAN.