Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Rather than trying to avoid a ban, one poster suggests buying daily Claude accounts from a relay's upstream so a ban costs little, though it is expensive.

A user says their four-year Claude account was banned, apparently flagged by automated detection as a distillation model, and finds Codex weaker for writing, video scripts and UI aesthetics.

A user shares a screenshot claiming their Claude Pro account used 6.5 billion Opus 5.5 tokens in 12 days and has not been banned.

A user says they have used Claude through an institutional IP for two years without a ban and measured its purity at over 70%.

A user asks whether a Claude account registered on a computer with a clean IP will be banned if logged in from a computer using a shared VPN.

The author says Claude Code saw another severe ban wave around National Day 2026, so they register and run Claude Code on a Grok Bot US cloud computer so the environment itself is in the US.

A commenter says three of their Claude accounts have been banned and they no longer want to try registering again.

A list of trending AI topics ranks Claude being banned, avoiding bans and getting unbanned as the second biggest traffic driver.

A user speculates that Anthropic's mass bans of Chinese accounts are meant to legally claim the large amounts of conversation data left behind by banned users.

The poster says whether Claude bans accounts no longer matters; the real annoyance is having to use a VPN for everything now.

A Claude Pro user on their third day says they paid with an Apple gift card and will use a method shared by others if their account gets banned.

A user says two Claude Max accounts were banned again despite doing nothing wrong, and announces they will switch to other tools and never use Anthropic again.