Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says the many Claude Code anti-ban posts are mostly superstition, since accounts get banned within days to months, making it like a short-term labor contract with a god who may quit anytime.

A user says Gemini's AI Studio redirected them to the Available regions page and blocked the voice model, unlike Claude which bans accounts after signup.

Anthropic says it has banned tens of thousands of accounts tied to distillation and that new defenses cut extracted reasoning data by about 90% to 99%, naming Zhipu and Moonshot.

A commenter says Claude account bans are normal when users repeatedly discuss illegal activity or violate terms, comparing it to account sharing across regions.

A user says they have hit every pitfall the internet warns will get a Claude account banned, yet their account remains active.

A user posted a photo of a gun on a laptop joking that Claude had stopped hallucinating, and their company's entire Claude Enterprise workspace was suspended, with the email explicitly citing the photo.

A user asks whether it is safe to put a Claude subscription in Grok Bot's hands, saying they were banned once before and do not want it to happen again.

Anthropic published a follow-up post naming Zhipu and Moonshot again, saying it banned tens of thousands of accounts tied to distillation attacks and estimating new defenses cut extracted reasoning data by about 90% to 99%.

The author says they registered a Claude account in early 2024, returned to China from the US and have used poor-quality shared VPNs for over two and a half years without ever being banned.

A Claude Pro user says Opus 5.5 gives a 500M-token weekly quota and a 70M-token 5-hour quota, and that this account survived heavy use and a full 5-hour limit while earlier accounts were banned before half that.

A user argues Claude's account bans are a commercial trade-off, noting Anthropic's new Singapore office partly serves Chinese developers and that the usage data behind it comes from users it bans.

A user shares the prompt behind a 14.5-second 3D fly-over video of a landing page that Claude produced in 15 minutes at no cost, made entirely with code.