Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Kimi K3.1 Pro nears Opus 5.5 on benchmarks and grants 25% extra quota, contrasted with Claude banning 11.4 million accounts and unstable quotas.

A satirical post framing home-broadband and overseas Mac Mini setups as a 'Double 11 promotion', joking that banned accounts are pure profit for Anthropic.

Poster claims Anthropic's filing shows revenue from violating accounts was recognized before suspension, at 5–7% of first-nine-month revenue, joking banned accounts helped fund the IPO.

A video argues Dario Amodei's year at Baidu shaped his views on privacy and AI risk, which it says led to Anthropic's strict risk controls and ongoing bans of China-related users.

Poster cites Anthropic's first-half revenue of $16.29B and a $80.75B loss, joking that the company still needs to keep banning accounts.

A user says their Claude account has been banned so often that they now use Opus through Kiro, which is expensive so they ration usage.

After Anthropic filed for IPO, the poster says the top comment-section concern was whether account bans will continue, since losing an account is scarier than the price.

A comment jokes that users banned by Claude are really Anthropic's founding shareholders who just never got shares, reflecting sentiment during the ban wave.

The author relays a US developer banned from Claude without reason, whose appeal via a Google form went unanswered and whose new account was revoked for suspicious signals, and asks how to back up chats.

The author sarcastically argues Anthropic's strong product makes users repeatedly sign up and pay only to be banned for violations with forfeited funds, costing $100 to $1000.

A roundup of top Chinese AI posts from Oct 26, including one user whose Claude Max account was banned and who switched to three Pro accounts.

The author reads Anthropic's S-1 as saying customers later banned for violations made up roughly 5–7% of revenue, with revenue recognized before access was cut and enforcement peaking in August and September 2026.