How to switch Claude accounts without signing out

First, check which situation you're in

How you switch depends on whether your accounts share an email address.

Same email: for example, your own Pro account and your company's Team seat both use you@company.com. Claude knows these belong together and offers a built-in switcher.
Different emails: for example, a personal Gmail account and a work account. Claude treats these as unrelated, so one app or browser session holds only one at a time.

Signing out and back in works in both cases, but it is slow. Claude doesn't use passwords. You sign in with Continue with Google or a login link sent by email, so every switch means a trip to your inbox or a Google prompt (Anthropic's login guide).

Same email: use Claude's account menu

As of October 2026, Anthropic documents this for people who have an individual Claude account and a Team or Enterprise account on the same email address:

Click your initials in the bottom left corner.
Select the account you want.
Look for the check mark that shows which account is active.

These steps come from Log in to your Claude account. The same idea applies when you join an organization and choose to keep your personal account: Anthropic says you then switch between the two from your account menu (find and join an organization).

If you use the Claude Console for the API, it has a similar menu for Console organizations on the same email (Console login guide).

Different emails on the web: browser profiles

A browser profile has its own cookies and sign-ins. Create one profile per Claude account, open claude.ai in each and sign in with the matching email. After that, switching is just switching windows.

Good for: people who use Claude in a browser and want something free that works today.
Watch out for: it only covers the web. The Claude Desktop app holds one account at a time, and it is easy to lose track of which window is which unless you name and color the profiles clearly.

A private or incognito window can hold a second sign-in temporarily, but it forgets the session when you close it, so you sign in again next time.

Different emails in Claude Desktop: separate profiles

Claude Desktop keeps one sign-in per copy of its data. To keep two accounts signed in, each needs its own data folder. Switch, a Mac app, does this for you: each profile opens Anthropic's own Claude Desktop, unmodified, pointed at its own data folder. Profiles stay signed in at the same time, and each has its own colored Dock icon.

To move between them you can click the Dock icon, use the Switch window, or press a global keyboard shortcut you set per profile, such as Control–Command–1. Shortcuts work from any app while Switch is running. One click also tiles every open profile side by side, each window outlined in its color.

One quirk to know: Claude finishes sign-in in your browser, and macOS hands the result to whichever Claude window it picks, often the one already open. When adding a new profile, quit the others first, then start and finish sign-in from the new profile's window.

See how to set up Switch and profile keyboard shortcuts.

Switching accounts doesn't change limits

Every method here only changes which account you are looking at. Each account keeps its own plan, chats and usage limits. Switching to another account to keep going after one hits its limit is not what these tools are for, and rotating accounts to avoid limits can conflict with Anthropic's Consumer Terms, which forbid bypassing its protective measures. Switch doesn't create, combine or share accounts and doesn't show or change usage.

For a side-by-side comparison of every method on a Mac, read two Claude accounts on one Mac.