Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

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.

The author reviews Anthropic's foldable dual-screen Claude Code demo, with left-pane orchestration and right-pane diffs, while noting their own Claude account is banned.

The poster has seen several Claude unban posts, wonders whether enforcement has loosened or China-based users are being accepted, and asks others if their accounts were reinstated.

A reply jokes that the most important knowledge is how to subscribe to Claude without getting banned, reflecting user anxiety amid the ban wave.

The author argues shared, resold residential IPs are the biggest driver of Claude account bans, not datacenter IPs.

A joking post asking whether people who keep using Claude after repeated account bans are gluttons for punishment, with the author admitting to it too.