Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A post says Anthropic named Zhipu for copying Claude data to train GLM-5.3 and has banned tens of thousands of accounts, warning existing accounts may be affected.

An analysis of Anthropic restricting reasoning trace extraction, detecting distillation and banning tens of thousands of accounts, arguing reasoning data is becoming a core AI asset.

A user calls Claude Code the best AI coding tool but says using it in China carries a constant risk of account bans, and asks for a reliable workaround.

Anthropic says its new protections have reduced distilled data by 90%–99% and that it has banned more than 10,000 accounts, some within two hours of an attack.

A user says GPT is not that good to use and is looking for a way to use Claude that won't get their account banned.

A user posted that their account was banned after a week of chatting with Claude about suicide, and joked about it.

A comment says DMIT blocks even mainland China IPs, and Claude goes further, with datacenter IPs likely the first check in its ban logic.

Anthropic says anti-distillation cut extractable reasoning data by 90–99% and banned tens of thousands of accounts, often within 2 hours, at the cost of rejecting trillions of paid tokens and hitting legitimate developers.

A user jokes that people used to say Chinese users won't pay, and now Claude users come out to rebut it every time an account gets banned, reflecting how frequent the bans are.

The author's long-used Claude coding account was banned on October 9 under the supported-regions policy with no appeal response yet, and he suspects normal old accounts in unsupported regions are being mistaken for fake ones.

A user says Claude's web version is relatively stable when used only in an anti-detect browser, but accounts get banned after switching to Claude Code or VS Code.

A user says mainland Chinese users would use Claude if they could, but accounts are banned within days of registering, leaving GPT as the only option.