Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user who opened a Claude account was asked for KYC, passed with a Chinese passport and face scan, and has used it via VPN for two days without issue but worries it may be banned soon.

A poster whose two Claude accounts have already been banned asks publicly for ways to prevent further bans.

A developer says they used Opus 5.5 to build a Claude plugin that handles compression, background pre-compression and summaries written to a database, and was banned the same day, so they are asking a staff member for help.

The author says X has hundreds of Claude ban-avoidance tips but risk remains high, lists copilot, cursor, antigravity and relay services as relatively stable channels in China, and notes US users can also be banned.

A joking post speculates that one painful reason for a Claude ban could be that the platform doesn't think your data is worth using as pretraining data.

The author subscribed to Claude Code Pro and did two days of work with Opus, says it beat two weeks of Codex, calls it worth it even if banned, and notes an Apple subscription can likely be refunded.

A user shares a method for using Claude in China without bans for two months: logging in on a cloud computer in a clean environment, at the cost of occasional network instability and buying an extra server.

A user argues Claude bans come in stages rather than immediately, and that buying an account and using it directly without any home broadband setup lasted two weeks, as long as the work done exceeds the cost of a Pro subscription.

A user shares how their Claude account has survived long term: no reading emails, no clicking links, no app, just TUN mode with direct-connect rules and Claude Code.

A user recalls signing up for Claude in 2023 via an SMS-code platform and being banned the next day, then switching proxies and buying an account early this year only to be banned again, and has not used Claude since.

A user who set up five colleagues on Pro and upgraded themselves to the $100 Max plan without bans shares tips including self-built US VPNs, US system region settings, disabling location, forced routing, U-card top-ups and avoiding risk-control triggers.

A user says they will keep their Codex account and use Gemini for creative work, complaining that even a KYC-purchased Claude account still carries ban risk.