Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster tested deleting a permanently banned Claude account and all its data before re-registering; it failed with a login error and no ban notice.

Post says Anthropic's prospectus shows 5–7% of 2026 first-three-quarter revenue came from customers later deemed non-compliant, mocking the 'bill them, then ban them' loop.

A community write-up on Claude Code Max 20 claims the author had roughly nine accounts banned and lists two precautions, framed as personal experience rather than official rules.

The poster says Anthropic's S-1 shows users later banned or restricted for violations accounted for roughly 5–7% of nine-month revenue, about $1B.

The author reads Anthropic's prospectus as showing 5–7% of first-nine-month revenue came from customers later deemed non-compliant, with revenue booked before bans, so the August–September crackdown is pre-IPO cleanup and will only tighten.

The author drops Codex for Claude Max 5x, citing Opus 5.5 quality, while warning that Anthropic bans accounts without warning and sharing how to claim API credits.

A user replies suggesting registering Claude through a muse they had never used, since previous sign-ups were banned the same evening.

A user who says they had used Claude Max for eight months reports their account has been banned for three days now.

The author says Claude desktop and CLI background heartbeats jump from datacenter ASN to a domestic direct connection when the proxy drops or switches nodes, triggering instant risk-control bans, and recommends keeping the account in a fixed US residential-IP container.

The author claims switching VPN nodes causes instant Claude account bans and pitches a one-account-per-IP sticky-session gateway as the fix, with a link to their profile.

A reply claims Claude's official docs state that once an email is banned, it cannot be used to register again even after account deletion.

Anthropic's IPO filing reportedly estimates 5–7% of revenue came from customers later deemed policy-violating, prompting jokes about banned paying Chinese users.