Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user satirizes Anthropic's ban logic with a /loop prompt: with limited compute, ban first and send appeals to human review later.

The author contrasts GPT, which needs a VPN and SMS verification, with Claude, which requires static IPs, KYC, fingerprint browsers and ban avoidance, saying anyone who runs Claude reliably is tough.

Someone recommends the REA library and warns that it's best to practice with local open-source models, since the community has already seen Codex and Claude accounts banned.

A user based in Japan says they used Claude for a year without a ban, but was banned shortly after returning home and accessing it via VPN for about a week.

Users discussing Claude bans in China say most come from VPN nodes being detected, with cheap proxy services getting many accounts banned at once, and paying more doesn't guarantee safety.

A user posts that their Claude account has been banned, with an image that appears to be a ban notice, one personal case in the current wave of bans.

Anthropic says people used hundreds of thousands of fake accounts to harvest Claude's full reasoning for training models, and has banned tens of thousands of accounts while tightening API context and rate limits.

The user says one of their Claude accounts has been banned and they don't plan to fight to restore it, preferring not to use the service in constant fear of a ban.

A reply post asks how many people have been banned by Anthropic, to gauge the scale of the current Claude ban wave.

A parody song written, composed and performed under the name Codex jokes that Claude bans users it identifies as Chinese, and urges people to cherish every second with it.

A video says many Claude accounts are banned for being flagged as distillation accounts and offers three tips to avoid false bans: don't extract full reasoning, avoid unknown relay or shared accounts, and stop retrying after a block.

A short reply in which the user says the cause of their problem was a Claude account ban, with a crying emoji.