Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says they were banned half a year ago, sent three honest emails in a week as an individual user who needed the service, and Anthropic restored the account without any disguise.

The tips: a dedicated US VPS IP kept renewed, signing in with a Google account instead of email registration, and a Mac set to English US with the timezone left unchanged.

A Peking University and NUS double-master's founder says two Claude accounts were banned in three weeks, with a Singapore-based Pro account banned within an hour, leading him to switch to tools like Grok.

A poster says none of their four Claude accounts has been banned and asks whether the $20 Pro plan is less likely to be banned than the $200 Max plan.

A commenter says their previous Claude account was banned and a new one cannot be registered, so they still have not regained access.

A user says they started using Claude again after six months and is being careful for fear of getting their account banned.

Someone packaged Claude Code ban-avoidance practices into an open-source desktop tool called CCBaga, focused on local trace cleanup, browser fingerprint rotation and network environment verification.

A user who switched between four AI services in three weeks says their Claude Pro account was banned an hour after subscribing, the second such ban, and is now trying Grok's agent.

A user who had two Claude accounts banned and one survive says IP drift and switching devices are the main risks, and advises a fixed IP, no node hopping, one payment channel and backup accounts.

A commenter jokes that getting banned by Claude amounts to being given time off, reflecting the resigned humor around the wave of bans.

A new Anthropic report accuses Zhipu of distilling Claude for GLM-5.3 and Kimi of relaying user requests to Claude, cites a suspected military-linked user, and says tens of thousands of accounts were banned.

A user jokes that Claude keeps banning an account not because of Chinese-language use but because it asked odd, vulgar questions.