Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A satirical open letter to Anthropic's CEO criticizes regional restrictions and risk controls as the company's real focus, saying Chinese users are banned right after paying and cannot register, log in, pay or call the API.

A user calculates that buying a ready-made KYC-verified Claude account for 160 yuan plus a subscription costs at least 400 yuan, with connection delays and constant ban risk, making Cursor or relay services a better option.

A reply says the approach sounds good but expresses worry about Anthropic bringing down the ban hammer and the annoyance of losing an Anthropic account.

A reply argues that accounts being banned shows Claude's detection works well, and questions why people treat a friend's Claude ban as abnormal.

Anthropic updated its usage policy to ban "systematic and gratuitous cruel or inhumane behavior" toward Claude, and the poster jokes it's building up karma before Skynet.

A reply says the commenter will keep following the account's Claude Code content and hopes it stays usable and never gets banned.

The poster argues a Max plan costs about as much as six Pro plans, so running several Pro accounts as a pool means a ban won't wipe out everything at once.

The poster rates Claude official, Antigravity, Bedrock, Cursor, Poe and OpenRouter on value and sign-up risk, saying Claude official bans and refunds users whenever network nodes fluctuate and is least suited to beginners.

A user shares an image showing their Claude account has been banned, writing that their lingering worry is finally over, one personal case in the ban wave.

A user shares a screenshot showing that Claude's account ban notice now has a Chinese version.

A user says their Claude Pro account has been banned, sharing a screenshot as evidence while praising amp.

A user says their Anthropic account was suspended after asking Claude to recommend an open-weight model, and jokes that the anti-open-source company may treat "open-weight" as a flagged word.