Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A widely shared document says Claude records device ID, git email, system environment and proxy status, and that switching accounts fails because the device ID follows the computer.

A line-by-line breakdown of a song mocking Anthropic's ban wave: accounts banned hours after paying, polite ban emails, no appeal path, and suspicion of Chinese users.

The author says Claude bans have made them wary, so coding work has moved to Codex plus model switching instead of tying everything to one account, and asks whether the other person will migrate fully.

The author says their Claude account was suddenly banned, and though unsure it was an IP issue, they began tinkering with VPS, relays and landing IPs, and explains why outbound and return routes mean latency does not equal speed.

Replying to another user, the author says they stopped running their project because their Claude account was banned, and attaches an image.

A user says Claude accounts are banned even for people physically in the US and Singapore, citing Anthropic's transparency report showing 11.4 million bans in the first half of 2026, 16.5 times the same period last year.

In a reply, a commenter asks in surprise how the other person managed to get banned on Claude.

A user says their account, registered on the first day of Claude's public beta and paid for ever since, has never been banned.

A commenter jokes that if Anthropic's ban system reached Chinese Americans, even Jensen Huang could be banned, after which he might cut off compute supply and Dario would not hold up.

After a Claude account ban, the author explains how IPv4 and IPv6 can take different routes and leak a real IP, and gives a four-step check and fix.

A user says their first account was banned and the second was banned the next day, suspects Claude leaves local traces that trigger instant bans, and now uses only the web app.

The poster asks whether logging into Claude Code on a Grok Bot machine is reliable, noting that Grok Bot mentioned people on X being banned right after signing up.