Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user shares a Claude Code workaround: register free accounts across multiple nodes and relay tasks between them, noting free accounts rarely get banned after IP changes.

A seller offers Claude Max 5x and 20x top-ups or ready-made accounts at 699 and 849 yuan, with a one-time replacement guarantee if the account is banned.

A user says an account opened with a US friend's real identity, a dedicated VPS node and English-only chats was permanently banned after 9 days and only 4 messages.

A user says their $100 Claude subscription was banned after 9 days, despite using a US credit card, address, phone number and a clean VPS node, and only editing their portal and directing Codex.

A user complains that their Claude account was banned and that GPT, which they switched to, has poor aesthetics, leaving them unhappy with both.

A user says their Claude Pro account was banned after only a few web questions, without using Claude Code, despite a fingerprint browser and a stable US static residential IP.

The user says their Claude account has never been banned, noting they only use it to learn about LLMs and analyze stocks rather than for vibe coding, and guesses low token usage may be why.

A user reports that their Claude account, on the 20x Max subscription tier, has been banned.

A user's attempt to subscribe to Claude Pro with an Apple gift card failed despite sufficient balance; Apple asked for a written explanation pending review, and the user suspects their account was banned.

A user says they consumed 3.4 billion tokens over 7 days and was banned by Anthropic again before getting going, marking their sixth account.

A user asks heavy Hermes users whether calling Claude through Hermes' Claude subscription direct SDK still carries a major risk of a Claude Code account ban.

A user whose Claude account was banned says they haven't decided whether to switch to a domestic model, Codex or a relayed Claude, and asks for advice.