Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user warns others not to click so-called Claude "claim benefits/credits" links, saying their one-year-old account was banned right after claiming.

A heavy Claude user replies that they have never been banned since they started using it, even while using proxy nodes, and does not understand why so many people get banned.

A user complains to @claudeai that their account was banned after sending roughly 5 prompts in Claude Code, and shares a screenshot.

A user says they want to subscribe to a Claude plan but keeps holding off because they do not want the hassle and fear of getting banned.

Replying to Anthropic's official account, a user says they envy people who can use Claude without being banned, reflecting widespread anxiety over account bans.

A poster says someone has already used a particular method to successfully unban a Claude account and suggests other banned users try it.

A user jokes that OpenAI claims 40 million users, while the number of accounts Claude has banned is probably more than 40 million.

Some users ship Mac minis to Bali or Singapore, connect them to local home broadband for a real overseas IP, and control them remotely from China just to use Claude, though the author notes this still doesn't guarantee the account won't be banned.

The poster says their company's Claude Team account was banned, yet a colleague who kept using Claude on the company network was unaffected and is now the company's most productive person.

The user says their Claude account was banned and they subscribed to GPT, but complains that GPT's frequent resets come with heavy usage, with $20 lasting about as long as a small amount of Claude usage, and warns similar users will leave.

In a reply, the user again says they moved to GPT after their Claude account was banned, argues GPT consumes far more quota than Claude, and calls for improvements.

The post explains the difference between ordinary networks, VPNs and proxy IPs, saying shared data-center VPN IPs easily trigger Claude's risk controls and bans, and recommends dedicated proxy IPs.