I really enjoyed Claude Code. I was using it on some side projects for about a month with API credits, and I signed up for the Max subscription shortly after it started working with Code. Overnight, my account was banned, and I have no idea why.
It sucks getting banned from such a cool and helpful tool :(
I had two accounts banned - one for Claude and one for the API. I tried to appeal both asking for more information. The response from Anthropic was non-specific and only that it violates usage. One account had only been minimally used. One never used. The accounts used email addresses using a domain I control - e.g., anthropic-claude@domain.xyz for example. I think that might have something to do with it.
I have a new account now using a Google account and it hasn’t been banned.
The comparison here should clearly be with the other frontier model providers: Anthropic, Google, and potentially Deepseek and xAI.
Comparing them gives the exact opposite conclusion - OpenAI is the only model provider that gates API access to their frontier models behind draconic identity verification (also, Worldcoin anyone?). Anthropic and Google do not do this.
OpenAI hides their model's CoT (inference-time compute, thinking). Anthropic to this day shows their CoT on all of their models.
Making it pretty obvious this is just someone patting themselves on the back and doing some marketing.