Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster shared a token usage of 30 billion last month and said their Claude account was banned, but by that volume they figure they already broke even and will keep going next month.

A founder warned that Claude bans accounts when it detects suspicious activity, saying their GitHub was suspended and their Claude account appears to have been hit too, and asked what similar cases exist.

One user argues that Claude adding a Chinese interface and a selectable China billing region is not an opening but a way to profile users and tighten risk controls, and advises backing up data and preparing alternatives.

A commenter said Claude is comfortable for long-text work but its bans are too random, noting they were banned too and hoping the other person's new account lasts longer.

A warning says the tip that chatting with Claude about suicide prevents account bans is harmful, since it actually flags the account and greatly raises the chance of being banned, with real cases cited.

A user whose Claude account stayed unbanned for 60 days shares anti-ban practices covering phone number, email, network, leftover config and payment, and says a third-party top-up got an earlier account banned in two days.

A developer who only uses the Claude Code CLI on a remote server says their own software called the local Claude Code during automated tests, and fears this could be why they get banned again.

The user says their Claude accounts were always getting banned and that the platform is not open, so they stopped using it entirely.

PCM reports that Anthropic has started checking IP and connection characteristics, and a large number of Hong Kong Claude accounts using VPNs have been banned without warning.

A joke post: a boss asks why the app crash rate spiked, and the developer answers that their Claude Code account was banned, so they have been developing with Codex this week.

The poster says their Claude account was banned twice, registered once with a Google account and once with an Apple account, and feels a shared misfortune after seeing the other person was also banned twice.

The author's Claude account was banned and they switched to Grok Build, Google Antigravity and DeepSeek as stopgaps, but say that after trying everything they still like Claude best.