Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

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.

An author claims to have lost 80+ Claude accounts and packaged the lessons into a free Codex Skill that audits runtime environment, network egress, signup and subscription pacing, and proxy rules, with no guarantee against bans.

The author says Persona only verifies document authenticity while Anthropic bans direct mainland connections, but warns that passing verification does not protect against egress-node changes or risk-control flags.

A reply questions claims that Claude accounts get banned easily, saying a friend opened an official account behind a local proxy and remains active, suggesting the ban talk is exaggerated.

The author shares a Claude survival setup: a self-hosted US data-center node as primary, a static-IP provider as backup, US App Store gift cards for subscription, and no API abuse — never banned since Claude launched.

The poster has heard Claude recently relaxed its ban policy and restored several accounts, and asks whether it is true.

The author says their Claude account was banned, then restored after a successful appeal in which they only stated they had not distilled data.

The user says Claude banned them multiple times simply for living in China and kept their money without refunding, expressing strong anger at Anthropic.

A reply argues that paying members having to learn how to avoid bans shows the problem lies in Anthropic's own risk-control system rather than in users.