Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A viral ban screenshot says a user was suspended just for asking Claude to recommend open-weight models, with the reason listed as "cruelty and abuse"; the author notes it looks like a joke but reflects community concern over closed-source limits on open-source topics.

A Chinese user says their third Claude account was banned and questions whether Anthropic uses AI to analyze behavior and target individual users, adding that banned accounts are not refunded.

A user complains that their feed keeps showing Claude ban posts full of speculative analysis, says the theories aren't credible, and tells people to just go back to GPT.

Shares a Claude account ban appeal template with three tips: deny any unknown violation and ask for a recheck of that day's logs, stress that the account was always used in supported regions, and stay firm rather than begging.

The poster wonders what banned Claude users actually said to the model and asks why none of them post the usage records that may have triggered the ban.

Anthropic's transparency data shows about 11.4 million accounts banned in the first half of 2026, roughly a 10% appeal success rate, and mainland China and Hong Kong outside supported regions.

The author says wiping leftover ID information from the Claude CLI on a machine tied to a banned account and restoring a clean state finally made the account stable.

A user asks whether linking a Claude account to GitHub leads to a ban, and whether the claim is true.

A user whose Claude account was banned submitted a quick appeal, then realized afterward that the appeal was written in Chinese.

Citing Anthropic figures, the post says 11.4 million accounts were banned in the first half of 2026, with a 10.5% appeal success rate and an overall reinstatement rate of just 0.37%.

A user says their Claude account keeps getting banned despite long use of a proxy setup, citing reports that many Webshare IPs have been flagged.

The author notes that Claude accounts and the API are separate entry points, and shows in four images how to connect relai to Cherry Studio to keep working after an account ban.