Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A self-described longtime Claude fan says that after being banned they moved most work to Grok Bot, which reproduced a video with music from the same prompt and covers 70-80% of Claude Code.

The author recalls being banned right after uploading a reverse-engineering analysis repo during the Claude Code source leak, and says he now understands why.

The author, whose Claude account was banned and who cancelled Codex, handed Grok Bot tasks they had not dared give it before, saying results were close to Opus 5.5 and the experience far better than Codex.

A commenter says Claude almost instantly bans IPs from China, reflecting a common view that account bans are closely tied to region.

Anthropic published research saying it is cracking down on model distillation at scale, has banned tens of thousands of related accounts and deployed three layers of defenses, which may explain the recent wave of Claude bans.

A post jokes that when Claude ban waves hit, people who call ChatGPT slow quickly switch to the backup, because what they want is not loyalty but an uninterrupted supply.

Anthropic says its new defenses cut reasoning content extracted by distillation from Claude by about 90%–99%, using reasoning restrictions, classifiers and rate limits, and that tens of thousands of accounts have been banned.

A user who travels abroad often complains that subscribing to Claude is hard and bans are severe, saying Anthropic has banned 11 of their accounts so far.

A user warns against helping others with reverse-engineering attacks, saying the other party's account may be banned and your own home IP could be blocked from Claude.

A user shares their experience signing up for Claude and avoiding bans: clean IPs, buying ready-made accounts, registering on a US iPhone without a phone number, keeping devices on one IP, and topping up with Apple Store gift cards.

A user asks Justin Sun how he queries Claude without getting banned, and whether he uses English only.

The author argues ban insurance makes no sense since ban risk depends on whether you do bad things, and notes Anthropic announced bans on tens of thousands of distillation accounts that day.