Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says coworkers using Claude Code were banned while a year of personal use never triggered one, and shares their usage scenarios and habits to explain the difference.

A user says they were banned an hour after buying a Claude subscription, after letting Codex and Claude discuss an app's design on their private machine, and plans to stick with Codex.

The author plans to broadcast through their US company's own IP to test whether Claude bans it, while believing bans are tied more to usage behavior, and says the IP exit is also needed for legitimate business.

After a three-year-old account was banned in July and three new registrations all died, the author switched to a self-built CN2 GIA network and the new account has survived over two months; the post ends with a BandwagonHost affiliate link.

The author says a shared Claude Pro account was banned, appealed with only "Personal Use" written in an angry American style, and was unbanned the next day with a $10 credit.

The author argues the recent Claude ban wave is not a platform glitch but many users triggering top-level anti-fraud audits when claiming official cloud/API free credits.

A reply-style joke: "POV when you're about to get your Anthropic account banned," riffing on the Claude ban wave.

The poster says many Chinese-region users were banned after retrying Claude in recent days, and enterprise accounts with AWS commercial contracts were also banned without reason; he is waiting for the $500 Pro Max instead.

The poster says Anthropic seems big-picture enough not to ban his account for using Claude to advertise its competitors.

A user asks whether using a Claude Max subscription in non-official harnesses still leads to a ban or is now allowed.