Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says a project wraps Claude in a VM and sends programmatically faked telemetry, arguing a ban is inevitable.

A user says their 1.5-year-old Claude Code account was banned today and is asking for overseas Mac mini rental options.

Anthropic's S-1 filed Oct 26 shows roughly 5–7% of first-nine-month 2026 revenue came from customers later found to violate its policies.

After a stable six-month Pro run, the user's Max 5 account was banned in two days for region reasons; the appeal failed and they moved to backup tools.

A reply tells a friend that Claude usage is metered as you go and account bans are random, so you just wait to see when yours hits.

The post claims Anthropic's prospectus discloses about $2.3B in revenue from banned violating users in the first nine months of 2026, 5–7% of total, joking that banned users helped fund the IPO.

The post claims Anthropic's IPO filing shows 5–7% of revenue came from later-banned users, with about 11.4M accounts banned in H1 and only 42K of 398K appeals restored.

A US-region Claude Pro paid via Apple subscription on a static-IP VPS was banned in under two weeks; the notice cited supported countries, the appeal cited usage policy.

The author argues ten $20 Claude accounts beat one $200 plan because losing a few still leaves access, and session-resume tooling hides the account switching.

The post claims Anthropic's S-1 shows up to 7% of revenue from non-refunded banned accounts and that Anthropic admits stepping up bans in August and September.

Anthropic's prospectus estimates 5–7% of revenue in the first nine months came from users violating usage policies, and says detection and bans were stepped up in August and September.

A user says their Claude account was just banned and they will use Codex as a stopgap before trying Claude again.