Anthropic Banned 11.4 Million Accounts in the First Half of the Year, with an Appeal Success Rate of About 10.6%

Odaily News: Anthropic's transparency report updated on July 23 shows that in the first half of 2026, a total of 11.4 million accounts were banned, an increase of about 6.9 times compared with 1.45 million in the second half of 2025, and the total number of bans was about 7.9 times that of the previous period.

During the same period, Anthropic received a total of 398,000 ban appeals, of which about 42,000 overturned the original ban decisions, with an appeal success rate of about 10.6%.

Anthropic stated that reasons for account bans include violations of usage policies, terms of service, or supported regions policy. The relevant statistics cover all of its products and services and do not separately distinguish the Claude chat product from developer services.