Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A long-time Claude user says their account was finally banned and they are appealing, while complaining Codex runs out of quota in a day.

The author argues Anthropic should silently route flagged accounts to a 7B model rather than ban them, collecting subscription fees while making black-market registrants eat sunk costs.

A user shares someone else's Claude Pro account being banned just 17 minutes after subscribing, while their own Google Play–billed account remains active.

A user says their three-year-old Anthropic account, subscribed for nearly a year, was banned in late September; the appeal failed and the Google Play payment wasn't refunded.

A user says the only reason they still keep ChatGPT is the fear that Claude might suddenly ban their account one day.

A user says Claude Pro handles Opus 5.5 well at moderate-to-heavy use with fast speed, and is a tolerable loss if the account gets banned.

A user says they still prefer Claude because Opus 5.5 is irreplaceable, and their company doesn't offer Anthropic models because its account was banned.

In a reply, a user bluntly complains that Claude's account banning practices are too harsh.

A developer jokes that they thought they could do anything in software development until their Claude account was banned, with a screenshot attached.

A user whose Claude account was banned once now keeps a fixed egress IP and cuts the network the moment the proxy drops, preferring failed tasks over leaking a real IP.

A post relays a friend's tip: when a Claude account is banned and can't log in, create ~/.claude/.claude.json with hasCompletedOnboarding set, then use DeepSeek v4.1 flash instead.

A user says Claude saw a US location via an anti-detect browser and a DMIT direct connection instead of home broadband; after two normal weeks, asking it to make a bilingual PPT got the account banned in under half an hour.