Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says being banned from Claude made them feel Anthropic's malice firsthand, warning the company will pay if its models lose their lead.

A user warns that four friends on residential broadband told them their Claude accounts were banned, advising others to understand the risks first.

A user says two years on Claude Pro with frequent IP changes was fine, but the account was banned two hours after upgrading to Max, suspecting a crackdown aimed at Max accounts.

A user says Claude Duet has near-zero Chinese users because people only ask whether applying will get them banned, since a ban wipes out their second brain.

A joking post cites an online rumor that Anthropic made 6 billion RMB in the first half of the year just from banning Chinese Claude accounts, questioning who is paying.

A short video turns Claude's instant account ban into a fighting-game skill, ending with a wish that nobody's Claude gets banned.

A user says they dropped 3.8 for Opus 5.5, but after their Claude account was banned they fell back to Gemini, GLM and DeepSeek, finding Opus still better.

A tip claims a US developer traveling from Hong Kong to Shenzhen for a Rust conference found their Claude account banned overnight; Anthropic's regional limits depend on where you actually use it, and no official cause is confirmed.

The author cites 5–7% banned-account revenue in Anthropic's filing, then lists local Claude traces — device_id in ~/.claude.json, telemetry retry queues, config backups, OAuth credentials — that cause new accounts to be banned instantly.

A user complains that Claude suspended the account immediately after payment, though the subscription fee was refunded quickly.

A user complains GitHub is dead under Microsoft, saying their account was suspended because of a Claude Opus 5.5 PR comment, leaving them unable to file a ticket.

An X user says people around them keep getting Claude accounts banned no matter what they try, leaving them nervous about using Claude.