Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

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.

Anthropic's API platform now lets resellers scope enforcement actions to a single end customer via user profiles, though requests without a profile still risk org-wide bans.

Damon Chen says his Claude annual Team plan was renewed while he was in China and his whole account was gone two days later; the poster notes China isn't a supported region and urges backing up chats and projects.