Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Users spotted China and UnionPay options at Claude checkout, and some banned accounts were restored after appeal, though mainland China is still not an officially supported region.

A user compares signup difficulty across services and says their Claude account has never been banned, offering a survival data point amid the ban wave.

The poster says three Claude accounts have been banned, one each on free, Pro and Max subscriptions, leaving one Pro in use and two free accounts as backup.

The poster says Codex plus Claude still isn't enough, wants Max but fears a ban, and has moved from Codex to Cursor and bots, trusting third-party access to Claude more.

The poster praises Claude Desktop's cleaner new UI, says they use Claude for Opus 5.5 and avoid other agents out of ban fears, and pushes back on criticism that the rebrand eases switching away.

The poster jokes that Anthropic employees get no bans, no limits and 1000 tok/s, while ordinary users must first figure out region, payment, then how to appeal a ban.

The poster asks users who had Claude accounts banned whether they re-registered with a new email or moved to Codex instead.

The poster shares an image saying their ten-month-old Claude account was banned anyway.

Community reports point to three common triggers for Claude account bans: new accounts going straight to Max, one account shared by several people, and logging in from multiple devices; a copyable self-check list is included.

The poster wants one or two Claude $200-tier accounts subscribed with an overseas credit card for personal use, offering $50/month extra plus a $30 bonus if the account gets banned.

The author's Claude account was banned, so they moved to deepseek-4.1-flash for quant strategy research and find it sufficient; they also note ChatGPT Plus limits kick in after a few dozen minutes.

The post aggregates V2EX, X and Reddit complaints about Codex quota cuts and Claude ban and quality fears, then promotes separate API tokens, Muse dedicated accounts and compliant top-up services.