Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author tested repeated sign-ups and attributes instant bans to three causes: an unrecognized fingerprint browser kernel version, cheap reused IPs, and Proton not receiving verification email, with a fix for each.

A user jokes about paying for Claude Pro only to receive a notification saying the account was suspended because they made the neural network cry.

A developer says they had Claude rebuild a project and get it running, and 12 hours later the Claude account they had kept for half a year was banned.

A user says a Claude Pro account used for half a year with a fixed IP and Gmail login was banned less than 24 hours after upgrading to Max.

Citing Anthropic's own data, the post says 11.4 million accounts were banned in the first half of the year, and of 398,000 appeals only 42,000 were reinstated, with abuse accounts driving KYC checks for new sign-ups.

A user says their long-standing, never-banned Claude account was banned during the National Day holiday while they were changing preference settings, after the system suspected they were a minor.

The author says they have had 7 Claude accounts banned and concludes there is no anti-ban technique, only luck, and that long-term AI use requires going the legitimate route.

The author says they find it hard to imagine the experience of overseas users running full-power GPT alongside a Claude they don't have to worry will suddenly be banned.

A user who says they used Claude heavily for six months without a ban lists the traits common to banned accounts and offers advice on email, phone number, network, payment and account warm-up pacing.

A user says their old Claude account was banned during the National Day holiday and that after switching to GPT they find it slow, getting little heavy work done in an afternoon.

Anthropic data shows 11.4 million Claude accounts banned in the first half of the year with a very low appeal success rate, and a new region policy taking effect Nov 12 will look through to company registration, headquarters and ownership.

A user argues that GrokBot's dynamically changing egress IP can look abnormal to Claude Code and lead to bans, and suggests using a cloud server with a fixed IP instead.