Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says their free Claude account, registered around 2024 and working fine, was banned shortly after a relay service appeared, suspecting they were caught up in it.

A user says they want to buy one month of Claude but their first thought is hoping they won't get banned, or at least not so soon, and calls themselves a bit pathetic.

A user warns that CodexBar keeps contacting Claude to read quota, so without a proxy or a dedicated Claude node the real IP may be exposed, and shares a prompt for having an agent set up network blocking.

A user posted a screenshot joking that they meant to teach people how to use Claude reliably, but their own account was banned outright.

The author recalls two Claude account bans starting in 2024, still getting banned after switching to a home broadband line and an anti-detect browser, and eventually moving to OpenRouter, with a full refund at the time.

The author says a 120-yuan VPN still got them banned, while a 50-yuan self-built VPS has gone six months without a ban, and names third-party top-ups and shared IPs as the main ban causes.

A user asks whether Apple will refund another Claude subscription bought with the same Apple ID if that account is banned again, after already getting one refund.

A user who says three of their accounts were banned recommends a clean self-hosted IP, a fixed login environment, no mobile logins, and subscribing via iOS.

A user argues that since Claude Code can read and write the computer and report the gateway and outbound IP, common anti-ban measures may offer no real protection.

A joking post says that since Claude likes banning accounts, the user got revenge by permanently banning Claude's IP.

A user says cliproxy uses datacenter IPs with a high Cloudflare risk score, which got their Claude account banned.

After over a year of paying for GPT and Claude, a user says GPT often gets dumber while Claude often bans accounts, each with its own pitfalls.