Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After trying a tool that calls Codex from inside Claude Code, the author's long-held Max account was banned, concluding no method guarantees safety.

The author sorts Claude ban causes into cross-timezone IPs, non-service-region bank cards, and a TOS semantic layer, arguing users should check the TOS instead of guessing from experience.

Pushback on a claim: Claude doesn't ban US, Korean or Japanese users, and questioning how banning Chinese users would multiply compute capacity.

The author complains that Claude's aggressive ban controls wiped out a paid Pro account and chat history overnight, then pitches Kimi K3.1 Pro as a ban-free alternative with domestic phone login.

A reseller says Claude Max 5X/20X can be delivered within an hour with zero bans on web under their setup, but Desktop and Claude Code carry higher ban risk and no guarantee.

The author answers doubts about their ban claims, saying they already tested it for others and stressing that the banned account wasn't their own.

A user who pays for Claude with Apple gift cards and uses Claude Code reports no ban, and asks banned users what triggered theirs.

A user in mainland China says they used their own Claude account for over two years, once subscribed, then moved to codex, and was never banned.

The author lists signals Claude could use to detect Chinese users and ban them, from git commit timezones to QQ emails, domestic mirrors, and Chinese text in test fixtures.

The author says Anthropic's risk control targets shared dirty IPs and protocol leaks, and shares a setup using a dedicated VPS, TUN mode with IPv6 disabled, and whoer.net checks that IP, DNS and WebRTC all match.

Advice says subscribing to Claude through Apple in-app purchase lets banned users get refunds from Apple, with one user reporting six banned accounts fully refunded and $37.50 back on Max 5x.

The author says they have used Claude normally with normal payments since 2023 without a ban, and questions whether the widely reported ban wave on X is real.