Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

After his main Claude account was banned and Codex degraded, the author moved two content pipelines to DeepSeek and was surprised by its search, no-setup skills and low cost.

Post suspects Claude keeps doubling prices and bans accounts more aggressively than anyone, while wondering whether free DeepSeek really intends to make no money.

The author's Claude account was banned, so they moved to deepseek-4.1-flash for quant strategy research and find it sufficient; they also note ChatGPT Plus limits kick in after a few dozen minutes.

The user says repeated Claude Max account bans pushed them to try DeepSeek with a jailbreak project, which found their router password, and they plan to switch workflows.

A user who cancelled Kimi and GLM subscriptions says they now rely on DeepSeek flash after their Claude account was banned.

A user jokes that Claude's theoretical 3B tokens become zero once the account is banned, while DeepSeek's 2.2B remain usable.

The poster says their Claude account was banned 17 minutes after paying for membership, compares DeepSeek's escalating bans, and laments that surviving to month-end is now the scarce AI resource.

Contrasts Claude's rapid banning of Chinese users' accounts with DeepSeek banning American users, claiming detection works regardless of input language.

A user suggests DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 for reverse-engineering and cybersecurity work for those worried about OpenAI or Anthropic account bans.

The user argues the Claude ban wave stems from big companies distilling via 20x accounts, causing many normal Chinese users to be banned, and says critics are blaming the wrong target.

The poster lists DeepSeek's MIT/Apache-licensed weights and inference stack, contrasting OpenAI and Anthropic's subscriptions, shrinking limits, and unexplained account bans.

The user says Claude bans accounts so aggressively that they now rely on DeepSeek for decompiled-code analysis.