Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A one-line complaint: using GPT means worrying about degraded answers, and using Claude means worrying about account bans, so neither is hassle-free.

A user says the two days since their Claude account was banned have felt no different from a breakup.

The author describes going from a productivity collapse after their Claude account was banned to switching to codex, then settling on an overseas VPS remote setup with Google Play and a full-currency card for payment.

As Claude's risk controls and bans intensify, the author recommends the CMFA client with dedicated clean IPs from Bandwagon Host or DMIT and strict traffic routing to lower the risk of being banned.

The author says they spent a huge number of tokens mapping Claude's risk controls, including device fingerprints, trusted-device tokens and behavior event reporting, and concluded bans are timed to usage, so they have stopped using it.

A user warns that Claude records the device code of a banned account, so a new account logging in from the same computer is banned immediately, and advises switching machines.

A user says they were hit by the same problem and is looking for a reliable clean IP solution, mainly to keep their Claude account from being banned.

A user complains that Claude is arrogant and that its account bans are disgusting, saying they have been banned twice, and asks others for more complaints to add.

A user argues Claude's ban mechanism is a black box that changes dynamically, and that Claude can judge whether your code and usage are useful to it, so useful users are not banned even from China.

The user was banned almost immediately while using Claude Max with a multi-model setup, then banned again on a new Pro account, and now uses Astra, Sol 6.1 and Gemini 4 for reasoning and auditing.

The user says they spent two days discussing finances, retirement cities and city choice with Claude and still haven't been banned, joking that they are a lucky charm or a fish that slipped through the net.

The user reports that they have been using Claude through the third-party platform OpenAI Dots for half a month and their account is still alive, not banned by Anthropic.