Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user lists their Grok, Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus subscriptions, noting the App Store-paid Claude Pro used across devices has not been banned.

The poster claims Claude banned 11.4 million accounts in half a year with only about one in ten appeals restored, and asks readers how many accounts they've lost.

After losing 3 Claude accounts, the author lists six tips: residential IPs, US-region email, gift-card subscriptions, fixed device and timezone, staying quiet, and avoiding reverse proxies.

A reply asks whether the Claude account being discussed has already been banned.

A user asks why their Claude web account was banned just three days after registering, before ever subscribing.

The author says two Claude accounts were banned in a row and DeepSeek price hikes strained API bills, blaming bloated agent prompts, MCP tools and logs for rising token use.

A community-sourced guide to keeping Claude and Opus 5.5 accounts alive in China, covering clean environments, owned email/phone, residential IPs, timezone matching, payment methods and self-hosted proxy risks.

A user complains that Claude bans come without a stated reason and without a refund, calling it effectively taking the money.

The author argues chasing residential IPs is overrated since public Wi-Fi is often IDC-hosted, and Claude bans more likely trigger when a proxy switch briefly exposes a Chinese IP.

A user says they worried daily about a Claude ban, and once it happened felt relieved to stop guessing, calling it Schrödinger's Claude.

The author lost three more Claude accounts recently; though workarounds exist, the time cost is high, so they are considering GPT-6 and Grok as substitutes.

A user agrees Claude Code is currently the most usable tool but notes accounts are easily banned when used from China.