Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author notes Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores close to Opus 5.5 but says Anthropic has banned three of their accounts, so they ask others to share their experience.

The user asks how resubscribing to Claude with a gift card could charge a previously banned account, since login and payment both happen on a new account in the new app.

After their Claude account was banned, the user finds the official export button only returns account info and that desktop records are stored on the server, and asks how to export chat history.

The user wants to try Opus 5.5 but worries buying an account will get it banned, while resellers are expensive and watered down, and complains Anthropic makes it hard.

A user says they asked Muse how to prevent a Claude ban, Muse then asked Claude, and their Claude account was banned.

The author says switching a China-market Samsung to the US Google Play store and registering a US Apple ID both failed, so they never even started registering for Claude, and buying a ready-made account is expensive and risks an instant ban.

A user posts a screenshot and says their Claude account, which had lasted six months, was finally banned.

A user says their brother's Claude account and then their own were suspended without any reason, both on $200 Max subscriptions, with a 10-day review.

A user says their Claude account and their brother's were both suspended without a stated reason, both on the $200 Max plan, with a 10-day review wait.

A user mocks someone who topped up Claude and claimed everywhere to know anti-ban secrets, only to be banned days later and quietly buy another account.

A user's long-used Claude account, run on a native home broadband IP and upgraded from $20 to $200, was suddenly banned, and their own checks found three local network issues: Claude Code not supporting SOCKS, split IPv4/IPv6 routing, and inconsistent client egress.

A user shares an anti-ban setup: English Linux Mint in Hyper-V with a San Francisco timezone, a Raspberry Pi OpenClash routing the VM to a US IP, and a Gmail alias, used only in the evening with typed English.