Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says they use a Canada VPS paid with AWS credits as their Claude network egress, and the account has not been banned for over half a month.

An analysis of how OpenAI and Anthropic anti-distillation measures raise API costs for distillation 5-10x, with Anthropic banning accounts that push follow-up questions too far.

The post says Claude banned 11.4 million accounts in six months, nearly 8x the previous period, with only 42,000 of 398,000 appeals restored, and that users in unsupported regions will be cut off from November 12.

The poster says their Claude account was banned, finds Codex's models mediocre, and has no idea which AI subscription to choose next.

A step-by-step guide covering IP checks, avoiding account sharing, payment and billing review, and tool session cleanup, plus an appeal process for users banned shortly after subscribing to Claude.

A tutorial for someone whose $20 Claude subscription was banned after two days, covering IP checks, avoiding sharing, verifying payment, clearing tool sessions, and an appeal template.

The author compares ban experiences with a friend on Anthropic accounts: an old account paying for Pro intermittently was fine, while the friend was banned half a month after paying for 20x, suggesting accounts are banned after being fattened up.

The author says their Claude account was unbanned and believes the ban was unrelated to chat content, since account memory stating they live in Shanghai and work at a company Anthropic dislikes did not prevent reinstatement after an appeal review.

The author registered 5 Claude accounts in bulk using Google Workspace business emails and residential IPs, and plans to warm them up to see whether they get banned.

A post claims that under Anthropic's new terms of service, being rude or insulting to Claude can now lead to account suspension.

The author mocks someone running a Claude datacenter operation in the US and says datacenter IPs are the most likely to be banned, recommending residential IPs, a fixed node, and matching card region and IP instead.

The poster says they are back on Claude using their oldest Google account, which had previously been banned once.