Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A travel-advice reply says travelers in China can just ask GPT or Grok instead of local AI, but warns never to use Claude because accounts get suspended.

A user received a Claude email saying their account was banned again in under a month, suspecting it was because they ran several processes at once to use up quota before reset.

The poster says they only felt sympathy when friends had several Claude accounts banned, but now their own account is gone and they are devastated.

In a thread about Claude account bans, a user says there is a Claude setup that does not get banned, without explaining how.

Claims 11.4M accounts banned in the first half of the year with only 42K of 398K appeals restored, and says the new Usage Policy takes effect Nov 12 with more false bans expected.

A user says subscribing to Claude is too much hassle and worries the account could be banned at any time.

A friend's Claude account was banned and is under appeal; the author shares a developer-mode gateway billed per token that works without logging into claude.ai, listing differences from a subscription.

In a Claude ban discussion, the reply argues that having a Claude account banned for doing illegal things is not a problem.

A mainland China user asks for a workable way to use Claude, saying a small survey found accounts mostly get banned for unclear reasons.

The author complains Anthropic bans Chinese users on sight and now also restricts overseas firms with Chinese ownership, then lists three ways to decouple projects from Claude Code.

The poster shares a Claude proxy line used for a year that only fluctuates during crackdowns, and wonders why their account has never been banned.

The poster says the Claude Code ban wave is escalating, with a long-running account from 2024 banned for the first time, and asks others how many times they've been banned.