Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Drawing on personal experience and others' reports, the author compiles seven usage habits to help avoid Claude account bans.

A short complaint that Claude banned the user's account, leaving them unable to use the service and frustrated with Anthropic.

The author finds Muse signups harder now: Gmail requires a QR scan and SMS, Apple ID requires contacting support, and Claude registration failed outright with a ban and phone and email verification.

A user reports that both Google accounts they used to register for Claude were banned right away, saying Claude accounts can no longer be farmed.

The author warns that Claude bans are very strict lately and that registering via Muse leaves the signup IP different from the usage IP, advising a two-week warm-up and starting on Pro before Max.

Opinion: Claude connections are built on UDP/QUIC, so a network that cannot route this traffic correctly is very likely to trigger an account ban.

A roundup of Claude ban triggers (shared proxy IPs, temp email, virtual cards, account sharing, constant high usage) claims Anthropic banned 1.45 million accounts in six months with only a 3.3% appeal success rate.

A user warns that if a conversation about Tor-related automation gets cut off, don't push it, since the realistic outcome is being banned from Claude.

A user says a banned Claude account is most likely gone for good and advises copying documents and generated videos to local storage in advance.

Amid a wave of Claude bans, the author shares three practices behind two accounts used across multiple regions for over a year without being banned: subscribing via Google Play, discussing professional topics, and avoiding shared IPs.

The author reviewed 40 banned Claude cases: 57.5% lasted under a day, 12.5% were banned instantly, the longest survived three years, and only 0.37% of the 11.4 million accounts banned in the first half of the year were restored on appeal.

A Chinese user says Claude is the only product where people get banned often yet still find ways to pay, while praising Opus 5.5 as extremely strong.