Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A comparison image claims the Codex lead replies to Chinese users in Chinese, while the Claude lead tries every way to ban Chinese users.

A reply warns that Claude will not allow Chinese users to use the service and will ban their accounts directly.

A user says todos.dev now supports all major coding agents, and that running Claude Code on a VPS and connecting through todos makes bans less likely.

A user says a single U card got three Claude accounts banned in three purchases, and that routing payment through Google Pay has kept the account alive so far, warning that refunds are no longer offered.

A user warns against opening a new Claude Max subscription now, saying their account was banned immediately after passing KYC, and shares a screenshot.

The author suggests users whose Claude Code accounts were banned switch to Antigravity, where Opus 5.5 is free and use may also help make Gemini stronger.

The poster found their Claude account banned again in the morning and vented in a video that GPT feels far friendlier by comparison.

The author says Claude's ban wave is driven by compute scarcity: the $20 tier gives out more tokens than GPT-6.1 Sol, so Anthropic purges low-quality, proxy and shared-account users.

The author says their Claude and Codex accounts were banned multiple times, so they stopped following model updates and moved into a paid e-commerce coaching business.

The author lost two Claude accounts in a few months and then a second Codex account, and now relies on domestic models, comparing Claude, Codex, Kimi and Doubao on real work.

A post claims a major Hangzhou company bought tens of thousands of $200 accounts to run Claude heavily and drew scrutiny, and that a friend was banned after opening Claude on a Hangzhou business trip.

A user says they cannot include Chinese in their reply because their Claude account would be banned.