Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says a past Claude ban made them stop running long tasks on it and wary of always-on personal assistants.

With 2 Pro and 10 Max accounts all alive, the poster distills lessons from 20+ past bans: no insults, clean IPs, no batch runs, no sharing.

A user says leaving a Claude Code window open while returning to China triggered a ban notice on screen, and repeated appeals failed to restore the account.

The poster says Claude bans are unsurprising and is surprised nobody reported being banned to them, suggesting most are using it fine.

A guide collects the Claude appeal portal, an unban email template, and full steps, with the poster claiming some appeals succeeded.

Recommends genuine residential IPs for social media and US financial services, and cleaner IPs for Claude to reduce the chance of being banned.

The poster, a US permanent resident running a US company but temporarily in China, says their Claude account was banned right after paying over $1,500 for an annual plan.

A user was banned right after renewing an annual Claude plan; the poster cites SemiAnalysis figures that subscriptions bring ~10% of revenue but consume over 40% of inference compute, plus China-login compliance and anti-distillation risk controls, so Anthropic would rather over-ban.

A post claims the moshi author, a US permanent resident running a startup in China, had his Claude team plan banned right after renewal with no refund.

A user asks whether a Claude subscription bought again after a prior Apple refund can still be refunded if the account gets banned a second time.

A user says an early Claude account registered with a temporary SMS code was suddenly banned, while logging in via Google has never led to a ban.

The poster says a friend spent a day provoking Claude, admitted being in mainland China, exposed their IP and kept switching proxies, yet the account was not instantly banned and only hit KYC.