Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says Claude bans accounts so fast that they suspect some accounts were banned before they were even registered.

A user asks whether an Apple ID previously banned for topping up a Claude account can safely be used again on a newly registered Claude account.

A user whose Claude account was banned says the appeal has gone unanswered for ten days, and is unsure whether to give up and switch accounts.

The author notes that even Americans traveling to China get their Claude accounts banned when using the service there.

Citing Anthropic's own figures of 11.4 million accounts banned in the first half of the year and only 42,000 appeals overturned, the post warns that workflows and agent configs stored in an account are lost when it is banned.

A user says that routing Magpie through a Claude proxy leads to an almost instant ban once Claude detects it.

The user jokes that having Claude calculate the calories in their food will probably get their account banned soon.

Replying to another user, they say Claude account bans are inevitable, and add that they can't use Claude after Anthropic banned their account.

The author suggests users who keep getting banned from Claude Code try Tencent's WorkBuddy, while joking that Tencent is doing what it does best: copying.

A user claims the way to avoid Claude Code bans is to keep the machine, registration and usage all overseas, connecting from a domestic machine only via SSH.

A post asks friends on X whether anyone has never had a Claude account banned.

The user calls the Claude subscription the best-value purchase on the planet and asks how many Claude accounts people have had banned.