Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A developer says several Claude accounts were banned before they could pay, so they have kept using Codex and never made a deep comparison.

A user set up a VPS proxy, ran tasks overnight on a second Claude account, and said that despite a past ban, Claude still beats ChatGPT.

A user says their Claude account of several years was banned for the first time with a suspected region-restriction notice, and suspects a proxy switching issue.

A short post in which the author says they hear about many Claude accounts being banned every day, reflecting a sense that bans are widespread.

The author claims Claude Code is far more efficient than Codex and lays out a ban-avoidance signup flow: a new Apple ID, a self-built VPS exit IP, Taipei time zone, and an overseas card for subscription.

A user says mentioning a 100 sqm home with only 65 sqm usable, a China-specific detail, got their Claude account banned, which they read as Anthropic's risk-control logic at work.

A company boss posted that Claude had not hallucinated once, and hours later the whole company's Claude enterprise account was banned.

Amid talk of Claude account bans, a user jokes that their account surviving so far must mean Claude is planning to screw them over badly.

A user posts a screenshot joking that working on Sunday exposed them, and asks who exactly is using Claude without getting banned.

A user asks who in China can still use Claude Code, saying even company shared accounts were banned, and wants to know how to avoid it.

The user says two Claude accounts were banned, one within 10 minutes, and that a method found afterward has kept an account working for three days.

A reply claims Anthropic may not understand its own ban mechanism, with backend AI review banning accounts at will.