Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says their Claude account was banned half a month ago, blocking plans to hold two subscriptions at once.

An open-source skill distilled from 80+ banned Claude accounts plugs into Claude Code and other agents to check IPv6 leaks and DNS leaks and suggest fixes.

A warning that paying for Claude and then traveling to or working from an unsupported region can get the account suspended — a real, not hypothetical, risk.

A developer reportedly lost over 80 Claude accounts and turned the lessons into an open-source agent skill called Claude-Guardian, framed as a survival guide for Chinese devs facing repeated bans.

Claude's payment page now offers mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan options plus UnionPay, yet the supported-region list still excludes mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, so paying users may still be banned.

After a Claude account ban, gift-card subscriptions only refund to Apple ID balance; the author suggests linking a US Apple ID to PayPal backed by a personal card so refunds return to the card.

A user reports their Claude account was banned and could not be unbanned, so they moved to a third-party relay service.

The author says they dropped Claude for Cursor and Grok, advises against making Claude the primary tool, and lists a self-check flow: verify the account, appeal via official support, and map out billing and refund paths.

A user asks whether a Google account used to sign up for Claude becomes unusable for future Claude registrations once the Claude account is banned.

A user says their first Claude purchase, a Max 20x plan, ended in a ban with no refund, and regrets not testing with a shared account first.

A user says four Claude accounts were banned while they were out over the weekend, and their appeals have gone unanswered while others report successful reinstatements.

After Opus 5.5, Anthropic's 7-day average call volume on OpenRouter rose to 3.6x, but commenters say unpredictable subscription bans push users toward APIs and backup providers.