Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The blogger says several banned friends' supposedly clean IPs were revealed as proxies by network geospatial mapping, and suspects Anthropic buys data from such providers.

A user says their two-year-old free account was working fine, but after paying $20 to try Claude's coding ability, the account was banned within a day.

TOAPIs cites a user's Claude account ban and ten-day appeal wait to pitch its pay-as-you-go multi-model API as a backup calling channel.

A user who paid for the $100 ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions says Claude is stronger in both usage and quality, but their Claude account was banned because they are in China.

Someone suggests opening a poll to tally whether Claude, GPT and other AI accounts have ever been banned, as a self-organized count of account survival.

A friend who used Claude in the US for a year without issue was banned the morning after arriving in Shenzhen, where he had been coding with Opus 5.5 the night before.

A post asking readers whether their Claude account has ever been banned, to collect ban experiences.

Drawing on a Claude account ban, the post argues that in an agent architecture of model, tools and files, only files stored locally persist, so work continues after switching models.

Anthropic has banned over 11 million accounts, and one company's enterprise account was banned after its owner posted a photo showing a handgun on a laptop running Claude.

After reading Claude ban-avoidance guides, the author says the key is regional compliance, real identity, a legitimate subscription and avoiding third-party relays, and worries most about losing an account mid-project.

After reading ban-avoidance guides, the author concludes the essentials are regional compliance, real identity, a legitimate subscription and no third-party relays, and fears an account vanishing mid-project.

In a model-choice discussion, the user says Claude is too easy to get banned and therefore prefers ChatGPT, while joking about Gemini and Doubao.