Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user claims relay services hold pools of about 100,000 accounts, so Claude bans don't matter, and mocks online anti-ban guides.

The author asks whether paying Claude subscribers check every morning that their account still exists, fearing a ban would halt their work.

A user woke up to a banned Claude account, saying higher-tier subscriptions get banned more often and no refund is given, citing ~11.4M bans in H1 2026 and a ~10% appeal success rate.

The poster contrasts a delivery worker earning under 200 yuan a day with losing 1300 yuan to a Claude account banned within a day, framing it as trial-and-error cost.

The poster relays a rumor that a certain action gets Claude accounts banned immediately and warns account holders not to try it.

A user considering the $200 Claude Max 20x plan asks existing subscribers whether Claude bans are random luck or follow identifiable triggers.

An overseas user says they told Claude they are Chinese and remain unbanned, though Claude occasionally schedules things on China time by mistake.

A post lists common Claude ban pitfalls around payment: don't switch nodes while paying, match billing address to IP location, and avoid cards tied to previously banned accounts.

A user says their previous free Claude account was banned and they registered a new one with a fresh email and phone number, upgrading to Pro the same day.

Theo argues old Anthropic accounts are valuable because they face less scrutiny than new ones, letting buyers harvest API keys to generate distillation data.

Citing Anthropic's transparency report, the post says 11.4 million accounts were banned in the first half of the year with only about 42,000 appeals restored, and that paid Max users in Hong Kong and Russia were also swept in October.

The poster just learned that people are getting banned from Claude Code and wonders what users are building to trigger it.