Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Advice to register Claude yourself via a US node and Google account, pay for the $20 Pro with a US Apple ID gift card so a ban costs little, and request an App Store refund if suspended.

A user's first Claude account was banned after they let Claude Code use their session data; on a new account they refused the same request.

An open-source tool runs 14 checks before launching Claude, kills the client when the proxy drops, and isolates multiple accounts' login state and device info.

A user argues the AI ecosystem is truly mature only when people react to a Claude ban by simply switching to another provider and carrying on.

A user shares how their Claude accounts stay alive: mostly night use, one account per VM, and calling Claude through a self-written MCP bridge from a local Mac.

The author argues Claude bans come with no refunds and failed disputes, netting $100–200 per ban, and suspects cheap Pro tiers lure users into Max before being banned.

A user reports their two-year-old Claude account was banned three days after using the Chinese remote-desktop tool Sunflower, and advises avoiding domestic remote software.

The poster praises DHH for using a Tailscale network to avoid Anthropic banning Claude Code accounts used from China, calling it simple and practical.

The author breaks Claude ban avoidance into three camps — clean US/Singapore nodes, an overseas Mac mini, and multi-account setups like claude-swap and team — and warns against buying IPs from KOLs, which got accounts banned on signup.

A user says Claude's latest region-based mass bans are heavy-handed and make it increasingly hard for users in China to keep using the service.

The poster says a coworker's Claude account, used for over a year, was also banned and the coworker has moved to Codex.

A post relays a Claude user's account of the ban wave: after resubscribing to ChatGPT he returned to Claude Code partly because still having access while others were banned felt superior.