Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A newly registered Claude account was banned after running a single task, a $20 refund review was rejected, and Codex was used to trace device-linking signals including cookies and persistent CLI identifiers.

The user says they barely open the Claude client after their main account was banned, yet the local cache has still grown to 900M.

The user jokes that Claude's biggest selling point is paying through the Apple Store, since a banned account can still get a full refund.

After looking into how to avoid Claude bans and how refunds work after a ban, the author finds the process extremely troublesome and calls on other model makers to beat Anthropic.

The author sums up Claude ban patterns: normal Pro use is rarely banned, most bans hit 5X/20X accounts reselling quota as API or bought secondhand, proxy choice is irrelevant, and HK card or Google Pay payments tend to get flagged.

A user says they have run Claude through the NewMax client for half a year without being banned, suspects the official client uploads account markers, and suggests using third-party clients instead.

A user says their Claude account of more than a year was banned today after they occasionally opened Claude without a VPN, and they will switch accounts and move to GPT Pro.

After their old Claude account was banned for logging in while traveling, the author hit a string of obstacles subscribing to Claude Code: an Apple subscription tied to the old account, a government ID request on web signup, and a declined card on a new Apple ID, leaving the money unspent.

A commenter says they have registered four Claude accounts and received Apple refunds after two were banned, reassuring the original poster that using an account long enough already makes it worthwhile.

After seeing strong reviews of Opus 5.5, a user wants to risk a Claude account ban to try it once and asks if anyone will talk them out of it.

After watching a comparison of GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5, a user wants to switch to Claude but is unsure how to avoid getting banned.

A user says the Claude account registered yesterday was banned today, so they bought API access to use Sonnet 5.5, which they note costs half as much.