Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user's Claude alt account, unused for months, was found frozen on login; a brief appeal was rejected and the account was permanently banned.

A reply argues Claude bans are not necessarily triggered by being a Chinese user, but by the terms of service barring minors, so saying you are a student can cause a ban.

A user says there is no need to place a computer in the US: with a proper setup and normal coding, Claude does not ban accounts, and they do not understand how others got banned.

A user says their Claude account has been restored and they also received half a year of Gemini Ultra, so they plan to stop paying for ChatGPT unless Claude gets banned again.

A blogger says a Hong Kong friend who is American came to Shenzhen for the Rust conference and woke up to find his Claude account banned.

A user says Anthropic bans accounts based on the country the account is located in, not because it detects Chinese language or identifies the user as Chinese.

People are paying overseas Chinese to keep a Mac mini running 24/7 so users in China can access Claude, which the author says violates Anthropic's terms and risks account bans, service termination, and contract claims.

A user says a free, unsubscribed web Claude account was banned after asking a few ComfyUI-related questions, and they then deleted the account.

A tip shared online: after a Claude account is banned, users can ask Anthropic for a refund prorated to the remaining subscription time.

The user says Claude is genuinely capable, but accounts get banned without warning, they have been banned more than once, and they do not dare buy a Max subscription.

The user says they now use only Claude and top up only Claude despite GPT and Gemini hype, and after one account was banned they kept opening new accounts to buy membership.

The user says four Claude accounts were banned in a row, so they will not use it again until they move to Tokyo, except through relay services.