Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After another ban on what they call their last account, a user says they will stop working with Anthropic and shift most tasks to local open-source models, arguing closed models create an unequal relationship.

A user notes a Taiwan friend was never banned despite similar usage patterns and suspects Claude flags simplified Chinese or mismatched timezone, language and IP signals.

One user says Claude's weekly tokens should be used up as soon as possible, since you never know when your account will be banned.

A user argues that long-used Claude accounts are being banned because occasional direct connections to Claude accumulate as risk signals, even when normal split-tunnel access works fine.

A user who was unbanned after appealing says their account has survived nearly a year of VPN IP switching, and credits an unbanned account, no API calls, chat-only use and no Max subscription.

A user who lost access to Claude says the experience convinced them to subscribe to multiple providers and avoid vendor lock-in, and apologizes to others banned at the same time.

A user laments that before using Claude they must manage VPN, IP region and timezone, fixed nodes, a fixed device and payment method just to avoid being banned.

A user says none of their ten-plus Claude accounts have been banned, the oldest running two and a half years, and questions why banned users assume it is a scam.

After a main Claude Max account was banned, a user says the replacement has run 24 hours without a second ban, warning that logging out leaves the old machineID in ~/.claude.json and that resuming old sessions carries the banned fingerprint.

A user whose Claude account was banned says they had purchased the x20 subscription with KYC already completed.

A user says they will insult Dario once a day from a free Claude account on mobile to see when it gets banned, and will try the $20 plan via the App Store if it lasts a month.

A user argues that every Claude ban wave creates a major event in the Chinese AI community and speculates that Anthropic has hashed all Chinese-region accounts into its dashboard, with bans coming down to probability.