Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user observes that banned Claude accounts almost all ran Claude Code CLI or the desktop app locally, while their own account, used only in an anti-detect browser and later via remote SSH to a US VPS, has survived a week.

A short post imagining Anthropic one day unbanning all banned accounts, then admitting it is just wishful thinking.

A joke post claims Xu Jiayin ran Claude Code on a maxed-out MacBook and bought a new machine to register a new account whenever one was banned, supposedly to erase device fingerprints.

A user replies that their Claude account has been banned.

A user says they could not resist using Claude Opus 5.5 again despite the risk of a ban, wishing themselves luck and joking about how many minutes they will last.

A poster warns that people who can't get their network environment right should not use Claude, since a ban is basically only a matter of time.

The user says Astra only lasts about two days and admits Opus performs better, but won't subscribe to Claude for fear of having the account banned.

Amid another wave of Claude bans, the user asks whether only Max subscriptions get banned while Pro accounts survive, noting their own Pro account is still active.

The user asked Muse how to avoid a Claude ban; Muse went and asked Claude, and Claude banned the account after reading it.

Manus Cue's Philippine residential IP allows cheaper GPT subscriptions, but a Claude account registered in the same environment was banned within 20 minutes, showing residential IPs are no safeguard.

A user says they stopped using Claude after three accounts were banned in March, has since rebuilt three accounts via Muse, but is not yet willing to pay for a subscription.

A user complains that Claude no longer refunds top-up balances when an account is banned, so a 500 top-up lost to a ban is money gone.