Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Anthropic reports blocking 99% of distillation attacks through limits on reasoning content across accounts and models, blocking extraction requests, and rate-limiting or banning repeat offenders, which a user jokes is all down to bans and false positives.

A user told Anthropic that after calling Claude "my best friend" one day, their account was banned the next, despite never pressuring the model.

A user posted that their Claude Max account was banned less than a day after activation, with a screenshot attached.

A poster says many China-region Claude accounts have recently been unbanned and shares an English appeal template covering account use and two defenses: unauthorized foreign logins and access from a non-restricted region.

The user says they had several Claude accounts banned, switched to Codex and was never banned, and has recently returned to Claude without a ban so far.

A user who recovered two banned Claude accounts says email format and the Chinese UI are not main causes; avoid maxing out Max quota and keep IP, timezone and DNS consistent.

The poster calls Claude the undisputed number one but says their accounts have been banned so often they are numb to it.

The author gives step-by-step setup for using Claude Desktop with a third-party gateway to keep using Claude models after a Claude Code account is banned.

Amid a wave of bans, a user who just logged into Claude Code asks for help on whether Anthropic will ban their account.

Users whose Claude accounts were banned should clear leftover REA, third-party API relay, proxy, environment variable and Hook configs before registering a new account, and the post includes a cleanup prompt to hand to Codex.

The poster wonders why someone who said they were Chinese, praised Anthropic and used a VPN in their appeal was unbanned, and asks about recent automatic refunds.

After an unexplained Claude account ban, the author started studying IP proxies and lays out why Docker, VS Code remote environments and AI tools inside them may not route through a TUN proxy.