Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user complains that OpenAI treats every paying user badly alike, while Anthropic targets users in China for bans, calling it regional discrimination.

A user who has been banned many times and reopened Claude accounts says the experience feels like a partner who could leave you at any moment.

A user who chose GPT says friends told them Claude is stronger, so they want to switch and would not regret it even if their Claude account gets banned.

The user says their Claude Pro account worked fine for over a year, but was banned just two hours after upgrading to 5x Max.

A user whose Claude account was suspended publicly asks whether they can still subscribe to Claude Max 5x and tags the official accounts for help.

A recommendation for a tool that checks whether your computer and account hit Claude's ban triggers, said to greatly lower the ban risk, noting a similar tool charges per use.

A user speculates that Claude bans are mainly triggered by browser environment detection, while Claude Code is used more for anti-distillation and only bans accounts when distillation or cracking is detected.

A user says their Claude account was banned after a week of use, just as they finished the $100 gift credit, and even a request to switch English replies to Chinese was singled out; the ban reason is unclear.

The user says that with Claude in the browser, writing long scripts and storyboards no longer requires switching pages, and they no longer worry about unexplained account bans.

The author shows a network environment with an unhandled WebRTC leak, says Claude has run for over half a month without a ban, and questions whether anti-ban detection sites are useful.

The author picks 10 practical anti-ban and appeal guides, with the core advice being to keep account, device, IP and payment region consistent, avoid opening the top plan on a new account, and subscribe via the App Store for easier refunds.

The author says a Claude account logged in through OpenAI's Dots cloud browser has survived almost a week without a ban, calling Claude's ban criteria unpredictable.