Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After a device-level ban, the author cleaned Claude traces, switched to a US residential IP with DNS/WebRTC leak protection and a Taipei timezone, then re-registered and paid for Pro via Apple gift cards; two days of web, desktop and mobile use went fine.

The poster says their account has stayed stable, argues bans are largely luck, notes an AI blogger reportedly lost a dozen accounts, and feels Pro subscribers rarely get banned.

The author warns that using Codex or Claude for reverse engineering can get accounts banned, especially costly subscriptions or accounts holding many credits.

An open-source project called claude-switcher adds 11 environment fingerprint checks, 10-second network monitoring with forced process kill on anomalies, and multi-account config isolation for Claude Code, though it cannot guarantee against bans.

A user reports that Claude bans are flooding the timeline, taking down two-year-old accounts and top-tier subscriptions, including a blogger who wrote ban-avoidance guides; one cloud-registered account lasted 22 minutes.

A Reddit poster says their Claude account was banned after genealogy research; the cause isn't stated in the thread and Anthropic hasn't responded, so it's the user's own account.

The poster argues Claude runs mass ban sweeps every few months when compute is tight before a new model launch, so anti-ban guides just haven't hit a sweep yet.

The poster asks whether Claude's bans target only mainland China users or also affect people in Taiwan, and wants local users to share their experience.

The poster notices almost no new Claude ban reports in recent days, speculates Anthropic paused bans due to its IPO, and asks recently banned users how long their accounts survived.

The author lost a Max 5x and three more Claude accounts in October, had two appeals rejected, then rebuilt with a dedicated VPS exit and clean Chrome profile before paying for Pro via a Singapore card — plus five lessons on IP, WebRTC, split-tunnel logs and kill-switch checks.

The poster says they live in daily anxiety over Claude accounts getting banned and Codex quota draining too fast — the tool they want most feels unsafe, the safest one isn't enough — and asks who else feels the same.

A user jokes that their Claude account survives because their questions are so silly that the model decides banning isn't worth it.