Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user runs three Claude accounts across a Mac mini, MacBook Air and phone with no phone binding or KYC prompts, arguing clean, stable IPs decide KYC and bans, and shares a Surge global-proxy plus pf firewall setup that blocks direct connections.

A user reports seeing mainland China and UnionPay options on Claude's payment page but won't change their setup before an official announcement, having been banned once before.

The author notes OpenRouter's daily Claude token usage has quadrupled since late September to nearly 3.0T, partly driven by Chinese users who moved to relay APIs after Anthropic account bans.

An author who says they've had over 80 Claude accounts banned packaged network setup, check scripts and troubleshooting into an open-source, skill-based guide for keeping accounts alive.

The poster asks whether any Claude users in mainland China have accounts that have never been banned, or whether a ban is just a matter of time.

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.