Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A commenter argues Anthropic bans accounts based on behavior like abnormal usage, shared resale and region jumps, so changing fingerprints or time zones doesn't help, and the safest approach is a compliant account rather than a shared subscription.

A user says their newly subscribed Claude was banned less than two hours into writing a script, and was unbanned the next day after an appeal, calling the ban baffling.

A commenter says reverse engineering, intrusion and paywall bypass violate OpenAI and Anthropic usage policies, that old accounts get no exemption, and that users should avoid main accounts and paid keys since appeals rarely succeed.

A reply says Claude is still usable without xhigh enabled, but the user's own account has been banned, one personal case in a wave of bans.

A user says using Claude felt like taking off, then the ban hit like a fallen genius, and notes banned users can get a prorated refund.

A user says they can accept their Claude account being banned, but doesn't understand why their WeChat was also restricted.

The author is building a Windows skill that clears Claude leftovers after an account ban, so a newly registered account is not linked to the old one and banned again.

The article uses Anthropic's published ban and appeal figures as background to discuss whether Chinese users can keep using Claude amid the current wave of account bans.

Asked how they always have Claude access, a user replies that they go through four or five banned accounts a month, highlighting how often accounts get suspended.

The user says his 5x Claude account was banned and he is temporarily back on the $20 subscription, adding that Claude subscription quotas are actually generous.

One suggestion says users whose Claude accounts were banned can buy a three-month Notion membership on Xianyu and select Opus 5.5 in Notion AI to keep working.

A user advises running reverse engineering tasks on domestic models first, citing cases of accounts being banned for doing Rea reverse engineering in Codex and Claude Code.