Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user in Singapore who subscribed to the $20 Claude plan and tried Claude Code says it works better than Codex for coding, but the biggest issue is account bans.

A commenter says the community keeps coming up with new tricks to prevent Claude accounts from being banned, and Anthropic's bans are pushing users to keep improving their methods.

Replying to another user, they say their Claude account was also banned today, in an angry tone.

A user says that days before their Claude account was banned, they found the static residential IP they had bought was being detected as a datacenter IP, and wonders whether the provider disguised it.

After repeated attempts blocked by phone and manual verification, the user says changing their computer's timezone and system language let them register Claude, and hopes the account survives longer this time.

The poster says the $200 GPT tier has fallen to 950 yuan but still isn't as good as Claude, so they will buy a $200 Claude plan despite the risk of a ban.

A user thought their Claude CLI authorization failure meant a ban, but it was only an expired login token; they say their account has stayed stable for years with just one ban, possibly tied to chat content.

After their Claude account was banned, the user switched to Codex and says the quota drops so quickly that two hours used 20% and two reset cards are already gone.

A user asks whether others feel the same loss after a Claude account ban, saying the Codex alternative has been underperforming lately.

An image post claims to list the quickest actions that trigger a Claude account ban, with details only visible in the attached image.

The author argues that using a US IP and US bank card makes bans more likely because US-timezone activity looks like all-night work, while Singapore, Japan and other IPs are less likely to be banned.

The author says a banned Claude account was restored about six days after emailing Anthropic's user safety address and filing an appeal on the official site, and shares the email template.