Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user shares anti-ban tips: use a residential IP, let a free account survive two or three days before upgrading to Pro, and don't change IPs while using it.

A user suggests testing whether communicating entirely in English sharply lowers the chance of a Claude ban, using a small model to translate each message before sending.

After a Claude ban, the author moved their workflows in 30 minutes by keeping the task list in a local folder, and recommends the alternative tool WorkBuddy.

After being banned by Claude, a user turned muse on Anthropic's email-handling agent and got it angry enough to escalate the case to a human.

A poster says the recent wave of Claude bans is not tied to the $250 cloud credit but to Anthropic reviewing accounts by language, with all-Chinese-prompt accounts banned first while older all-English accounts stay safe.

A user says they were reminded yesterday that it was the National Day holiday, and this morning their Claude account was banned.

A user says they got no reply to an appeal and lost $100 after being banned during a short Max sprint with Claude Code, so they are back to their usual Codex workflow.

The author argues that losing Claude or ChatGPT accounts won't bring disaster, but a banned Google account would, since so many important accounts are registered with Gmail.

A user says all three of their Claude Max accounts, including a two-year-old one, were banned within three days, and plans to buy an overseas computer and access it remotely as a workaround.

The author says the refund for a $200 Claude plan did not go through after the account was banned, that a first ban via Apple may be refunded to balance but a re-subscription ban may not, and that they plan to switch to local models with Codex in control.

A commenter sarcastically says Anthropic is speedrunning getting AI into trouble and banned, and asks why.

Theo made a video explaining how he runs six Claude subscriptions and three Codex subscriptions at the same time, joking that the setup might get you banned.