Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

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.

A user logged into an old Claude account registered via the 2023 waitlist and unused since, and found it still works and has not been banned.

A user describes making videos with Opus 5.5, covering ban-avoidance practices like US App Store billing, a stable IP and a UK phone number, plus how 5x subscription quota converts to video minutes.

A user deciding whether to renew ChatGPT before the next billing date is considering moving to Claude, with account bans as the only concern.

A user asks whether it is true that many accounts were banned after Chinese users worked with Claude on a make-up workday.

A user recounts a friend's reaction after two days of heavy Claude use: it is so strong that everyone should subscribe and try it, even at the risk of a ban.