Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says they dropped 3.8 for Opus 5.5, but after their Claude account was banned they fell back to Gemini, GLM and DeepSeek, finding Opus still better.

A user says they've subscribed to Claude Pro for nearly a year without a ban, while the student Gemini channel's eligibility review has been a nightmare.

A replier who also got banned right after paying for membership suggests splitting spec-writing and rendering across models, using Cursor with GPT/Codex and Gemini for long prompts so one failure doesn't stop the pipeline.

The user says that since their Claude account was banned, they now mainly use Gemini, DeepSeek and GLM.

A user says their main Claude account hit its quota and their alt account was banned, so they exhausted Antigravity's Gemini quota instead.

The user's Claude account was banned earlier this month; after switching to a Gemini subscription, pages stopped loading after a proxy change, and they ask whether it's a ban or a network issue.

A comparison post says Claude bans Chinese users instantly, Gemini is relatively friendly, and DeepSeek counts as one of their own.

The author says their detailed Claude ban-prevention guide has been indexed by Gemini, and it ends with an unban tutorial so readers don't regret waiting until a ban.

One user says they want Gemini 4 not for the conversation experience but because their Claude account has been banned.

A user whose Claude account was banned says Anthropic doesn't care about consumer customers, and plans to try Gemini 4, which is said to write well.

The author's Claude account was banned and they switched to Grok Build, Google Antigravity and DeepSeek as stopgaps, but say that after trying everything they still like Claude best.

A user says Claude subscription bans are routine and GPT occasionally bans accounts too, but asks whether anyone has seen a paid Gemini membership banned.