Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

In an argument with another user, the person says they were banned from Claude three months ago and so have no stake in the matter.

The author shares a setup that runs Claude Code on a US cloud host with a US timezone and no local proxy, connecting via Tailscale and Orca so tasks can be dispatched remotely through Grok Bot.

The author says a surge of new users after Opus 5.5 brought stricter risk controls and bans, even for accounts two or three years old, and decides not to subscribe because guarding against bans daily is too draining.

The poster says their Claude account was banned after they topped up $20 and made only two videos, and that they have filed an appeal; it was their sixth account.

A user explains that Claude bans accounts when an exit IP is flagged as located in mainland China, often triggered by neighbors on the same subnet, and suggests disabling location permissions and using less popular or cloud-provider VPS IPs.

The poster jokes about joining the banned-account crowd, says anti-ban tips can't be trusted, and claims Chinese users' Claude accounts fall into two groups: already banned and banned in a few days.

A developer says their Claude account was banned for using it too much during two straight days of intense brainstorming and development for their company, and that they are still working on a context-switching app.

In a reply, a user says two people they know were banned because Claude thought they were children.

A user replies that they were also suspended for using Claude Code for work, echoing a recent wave of account bans.

According to The Decoder, Anthropic updated its terms of service so that users who repeatedly and egregiously mistreat Claude may have their accounts suspended.

The user says their first account worked fine in the app until Claude Code asked them to log in again, after which it was banned immediately, and they now avoid logging in.

A user says every email from Claude Team makes them panic, thinking their free Claude account has been banned, reflecting wider anxiety over account bans.