Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster jokes Claude bans accounts so fast they're suspended before registration, and asks why so many users keep topping up despite severe bans in China.

The author rebuts common Claude ban-prevention advice—new accounts can subscribe directly, using the full 5-hour quota isn't a violation, home broadband isn't a shield—and reports DNS leaks correlating with instant bans.

A post lists five ways to avoid Claude bans, including local client with VPS proxy, Claude on a VPS, renting an overseas Mac mini, and shipping a Mac to a friend abroad, with costs and tradeoffs.

A US citizen on a US company's Claude Team plan was banned three days after arriving in China, suggesting any China IP gets hit regardless of identity.

Needing more than one Pro plan, the poster opened a second Claude account that was banned within 3 hours, losing 140 yuan, and lists refund and VPS workarounds.

A user who spent over $1,500 on Claude last month had their whole account banned anyway; the poster asks whether it was a subscription or API account and whether appeals got a reply, and advises exporting chats and prompts regularly.

A US resident says their two-year paid Claude account was banned simply for being used during a stay in China, and questions Anthropic's policy and culture toward Chinese users.

The poster says chaining a US-IP router to the home router keeps a stable exit IP, and after three to four months of Claude use no account has been banned.

A reseller says Claude accounts were pulled earlier due to heavy bans, but relisted them after seeing fewer bans recently, warning buyers that ban risk is on them.

Banned by Claude, the author stopped storing sensitive data there and moved financial, health and emotional data to OpenAI, while worrying OpenAI might ban them too.

A user says his $125 Claude Max 5x subscription was banned an hour after purchase, Anthropic and Google refused refunds, and a chargeback through China Merchants Bank finally recovered the money.

A post jokes that only two groups still have unbanned Claude accounts: those with their own workaround tricks, and those who have no idea why they survived, asking X users which they are.