Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster says creator Damon was banned by Claude for temporarily working in China with no refund, and that two of their own accounts were also banned.

The poster says their Claude account was banned 17 minutes after paying for membership, compares DeepSeek's escalating bans, and laments that surviving to month-end is now the scarce AI resource.

A user who just subscribed to Claude Max at $100 worries after reading that someone was banned the day after upgrading, hoping their location in Bali keeps them safe.

A developer whose main stack is Cursor paid for a $100 Claude plan to try video work and had a year-old account banned.

The poster says their 18 Claude accounts survive, warns against one proxy client for unstable connections, and notes they were banned after asking Claude to fix it.

A user replies that they would have switched to Claude already if it weren't so prone to account bans, treating ban risk as the main blocker.

An xAI-first user who used Claude for only about 5% of work upgraded to Team and paid a year of Max, then had the whole account banned.

A user jokes that activation and suspension come almost simultaneously, and recalls being stunned when Claude accounts at their company got banned.

A US green-card holder and company founder lost their Claude account two days after renewing Team annually; another Max 5x user was banned within an hour and recovered funds via a chargeback.

The poster recalls clients helping find channels during a severe Claude ban wave, using it to stress they sell genuine access at fair margins.

A developer says months of ordinary proxy use was fine, but dozens of sub-agents burning a five-hour quota in minutes got the account permanently banned, with appeals unanswered.

Damon Chen's Claude Team account was banned two days after renewing the annual fee, with Anthropic citing an unsupported region and no refunds; contrasted with DHH's trouble-free Tailscale use in China.