Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Citing Anthropic's own figures, the poster says 11.4 million accounts were banned in the first half of the year and only 42,000 of 398,000 appeals were reinstated, then asks which agents people use as primary and backup.

The poster doubts that clearing cache, changing fingerprints, time zones and language meaningfully prevent bans, noting their DMIT self-hosted proxy has gone nearly 4 months without a ban and guessing payment channel and account history matter more.

A user says changing timezone and language settings did nothing, but using a self-built DMIT proxy across mobile, web and desktop kept their Claude account unbanned for nearly four months, and believes the payment channel is the key factor.

A user upgraded to Claude Max 5x through an Apple subscription and was banned less than four days after logging in, with both Apple refund attempts and a support escalation failing to get the money back.

The magpie author says the tool doesn't use tokens to request Anthropic directly, but since Anthropic sets its own ban rules, users should only use Claude accounts they own and pay for themselves.

A user whose Claude account was banned for the second time, describing it as like a breakup, asks whether there is a stable way to use the service with mainland China or Hong Kong KYC.

A user says people worried about their Claude Opus 5.5 account being banned can just use the Opus 5.5 built into Microsoft Word to write articles.

A user complains that Anthropic has banned a large number of accounts and publicly asks, tagging @elonmusk, for the reasons and background behind the wave of bans.

A user says ban-prevention guides are mostly useless, noting that with a data-center IP, Chinese-language settings and Shanghai timezone, all three of their accounts (two registered three years ago) remain active, though they expect a ban email eventually.

The author says they tested on their own account that using a Claude subscription via Claude -p is officially allowed by Anthropic and magpie is just a unified gateway; the only risky path is Cursor's forged requests, which has not led to a ban so far.

A user jokes that their core competitiveness at work has become owning an old Claude account that has stayed unbanned through long-term use.

People whose Claude accounts were banned can turn to Notion, whose AI now includes Opus 5.5, and the author says a 3-month Business plan can be had for ¥23 on Xianyu.