Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Three days after his Claude account was banned, the author ran DeepSeek on top of Claude Code for two days for only $5 and found the execution quality was not much different, suggesting he mainly needs Claude Code's ideas.

After Claude banned five of his accounts yesterday, a developer built a weekend project that turns any URL into a destructible game level and picked Claude's own website as the target.

A reply states that the person was banned by Anthropic, without giving a reason or any appeal outcome.

After trying Claude Code's Opus 5.5 in Cursor and finding it easier to work with than Codex, the author paid $24 for a subscription and, hearing that accounts get banned easily, wants to see how long they last.

The author says Claude permanently banned their account while they were making videos with Opus 5.5, wiping over three years of data, and that switching to another tool gives noticeably worse results.

In a reply, a user states plainly that they want to use Claude without being banned, reflecting the ongoing account-ban concerns among users.

A user in San Francisco believes Anthropic bans accounts based on IP and org rather than nationality or language, and says they have chatted with Claude in Chinese for years without a ban.

The author asks banned Claude users to report in and suggests checking exit IP, DNS leaks, WebRTC/UDP and IPv6 anomalies first, offering a Shadowrocket routing config while noting DNS leaks don't necessarily cause bans.

Someone used Cue's free cloud PC, a shared machine with an Argentine exit IP, to register Claude, and the account was banned within 22 minutes.

The poster says Cue's cloud PC is actually a shared machine with an Argentine exit IP, and a community member who used it to register Claude was banned in 22 minutes.

A user asks whether there is a safe way to use their Claude subscription in the third-party tool pidotdev without triggering a ban.

The author says their three-year-old Claude account and another long-time user's account were both banned, and vows to never use Claude again.