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Where is Claude banned?

Anthropic’s AI assistant · claude.ai

Claude’s gaps are mostly Anthropic’s own: it doesn’t offer Claude in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Belarus or Iran, or to companies controlled from there. China’s censors also interfere with claude.ai.

By the vpnAlert team · Background checked on 10 Oct 2026 · Tested every day since 29 Sep 2026 · How we test · Report a wrong result

Every day we open Claude from inside 24 countries, mostly over home broadband, and record where it’s blocked, since when and how.

0 of 24tested countries with a confirmed block of Claude

No confirmed blocks in the 24 countries with current results. Claude itself turns away visitors from China and Russia. 24 of 24 results confirmed in the last 48 hours.

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Country by country

Claude in each country we test

Blocked means the networks we test there failed to open claude.ai, twice, while it opened elsewhere. “Turned away by the site” means Claude itself refused visitors from that country.

Claude in each country we test
CountryResultIn our tests sinceHow it fails
ChinaChina Unicom and China MobileTurned away by the site30 Sep 2026 (our first test)the site sends visitors to a “not available here” page on China Unicom and China Mobile
RussiaRostelecom and MTSTurned away by the site6 Nov 2026the site sends visitors to a “not available here” page on Rostelecom and MTS
AustraliaTelstra and OptusOpens
BelarusBeltelecom and MTS BelarusOpens
BrazilClaro and VivoOpens
EgyptSeveral networks, mostly data centersOpens
FranceOrange and FreeOpens
GermanyDeutsche Telekom and VodafoneOpens
IndiaJio and AirtelOpens
IndonesiaTelkom Indonesia and XL AxiataOpens
IranSeveral networks, mostly data centersOpens
ItalyTIM and FastwebOpens
MalaysiaTM Unifi and MaxisOpens
NetherlandsKPN and ZiggoOpens
PakistanPTCL and NayatelOpens
Saudi ArabiaSeveral networks, mostly data centersOpens
South KoreaKT and SK BroadbandOpens
SpainMovistar and OrangeOpens
ThailandAIS Fibre and TOTOpens
TurkeyTürk Telekom and Turkcell SuperonlineOpens
UAEEtisalatOpens
UKBT and Virgin MediaOpens
USComcast Xfinity and AT&TOpens
VietnamViettel and FPT TelecomOpens

“In our tests since” is when our own tests first showed the result, not when a ban began: where it reads “our first test”, the block may be older. Older results are excluded from current totals.

Background

Where Claude is restricted, and why

Most limits on Claude come from Anthropic, not from governments. Its Supported Regions Policy, which covers the Claude apps, Claude Code and its developer platform, leaves out mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, Russia, Belarus and Iran, as well as Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar and Yemen. Anthropic says using Claude while physically in an unsupported region isn’t supported, even for staff of a company it does serve.

Since September 2025 the rules follow ownership too. Anthropic said companies from restricted regions, “including adversarial nations like China”, had kept reaching its services through subsidiaries abroad, so it now refuses any company more than 50% owned, directly or indirectly, by firms headquartered in unsupported regions, wherever it operates. Companies incorporated or headquartered in those regions are excluded along with their staff abroad.

In mainland China, Anthropic’s exclusion is compounded by the censors: GreatFire, which tests websites from inside the mainland, has recorded interference with claude.ai since September 2023 and found interference in most of its tests in the three months to October 2026. The wider rollout was Anthropic’s own pacing: claude.ai opened to anyone in the US and UK in July 2023 and reached Europe in May 2024.

Key dates

  1. Anthropic bars companies more than 50% owned by firms headquartered in unsupported regions such as China, wherever they operate.
  2. Claude.ai and Claude’s iPhone app become available to people and businesses across Europe.
  3. GreatFire’s tests from inside mainland China start recording interference with claude.ai.
  4. Anthropic launches Claude 2 and opens its claude.ai chat to anyone in the US and UK.

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History

Changes for Claude

  1. Claude now turns away visitors from Russia

  2. Claude is now blocked in Russia

  3. Claude now turns away visitors from Russia

Method

How we test

  • Test machines on the two biggest home-internet providers in most countries open the homepage every day.
  • A failure counts only when it happens twice on the same network, while the site opens from other countries.
  • A change is published only after re-checks a few hours later and again the next day, on several machines per provider, confirm it. It’s dated from the first sighting.
  • Test machines caught getting around blocks, through a VPN or a filter-dodging tool, are set aside.
  • We test websites, mostly over home broadband. Apps, calls and mobile networks can behave differently.

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Questions

Claude blocks: questions

Which Countries Is Claude Not Available In?

Anthropic’s list of supported regions leaves out mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Belarus and Iran, along with Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar and Yemen. Anthropic says using Claude while physically in an unsupported region isn’t supported, even for staff of companies it serves elsewhere.

Can Chinese Companies Use Claude?

Not if they’re controlled from China. Since September 2025 Anthropic has barred companies more than 50% owned, directly or indirectly, by firms headquartered in unsupported regions such as China, wherever they operate. Companies incorporated or headquartered in those regions are excluded too, along with their staff abroad.

Is Claude Blocked in China?

Anthropic doesn’t offer Claude in mainland China in the first place, and China’s censors interfere with it too. GreatFire, which tests websites from inside the mainland, has recorded interference with claude.ai since September 2023, and found interference in most of its tests in the three months to October 2026.

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As of 13 Nov 2026, claude.ai isn’t blocked in any of the 24 countries in the vpnAlert Censorship Monitor’s daily test.

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