Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says their Claude account was banned on October 4 and that two replacement DMIT VPS IPs were blocked on consecutive days, which they attribute to a friend insulting Claude and to sharing an SS node over WeChat.

A developer posted that Claude suspended their account, which they take as a sign to switch to OpenAI.

A user says their Claude account was banned and the appeal failed, and that an API balance of over $80 was pushed into the negative, asking whether the debt has to be repaid.

A user recounts that someone placed a Mac mini in a US friend's home and used it remotely with a US IP and US bank card, yet their Claude account was still banned yesterday.

The author says using Claude through the Orca orchestrator on a US cloud host makes bans very unlikely, since there is no local login and no IP issues.

Someone posted a template for appealing a banned Claude account, tried it expecting nothing, and says the appeal was approved, with screenshots attached.

Replying to another user, one person says Claude is genuinely pleasant to use but has too many restrictions and frequently bans accounts.

A user says Claude bans are baffling: they used proxy nodes for half a year without issue and were only banned after switching devices, forgetting the proxy, and exposing a mainland IP.

A user has opened a Memoh account to try running Claude Code and worries there will be no fallback if the account gets banned again.

A developer says his account was banned after he applied to Claude's startup support program, joking that helping people prepare for AI engineering interviews made him look like a competitor.

A poster says even Claude on a remote Mac mini in the US was banned, arguing the issue goes beyond networking and suspecting the ban wave mainly targets Chinese-speaking users to create a chilling effect.

A user who called Claude a "f*cking moron" for merging to production without approval found that Anthropic had suspended his account for being mean to the AI.