How ruthless is Claude's account banning? Anthropic bans 11.4 million accounts in half a year, with only 42,000 of 398,000 appeals overturned.

Beating AI News Flash: Anthropic's transparency report updated on July 23 shows that 11.4 million accounts were banned in the first half of 2026. In the second half of 2025, the figure was 1.45 million, making the new period approximately 7.9 times the previous one. The statistics cover Anthropic's products and services and do not separately distinguish between Claude chat and developer products.

During the same period, 398,000 ban appeals were received, of which 42,000 overturned the original ban decisions. Based on the two sets of data from the same period, the number of reversals accounted for approximately 10.6% of appeals.

Anthropic stated that accounts may be banned for violating usage policies, terms of service, or supported region policies.