Several accounts

Work and personal accounts, side by side on one Mac

A client's Claude Max account, your own, a ChatGPT account for Codex: each switch means /logout, /login, a browser that opens on the wrong profile, and a session that loses its context. Quotum keeps each Claude and Codex account in its own space — its own copy of the desktop app, its own Chrome profile, a terminal pinned to it — and shows how much each one has left before you pick it.

How the tools handle several accounts on their own

• Claude Code signs in one account at a time: /logout, then /login. Anthropic's documentation adds the way to stay signed in to several at once: give each account its own configuration directory, with the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.
• The Codex CLI works the same way: codex logout, then codex login; codex login status tells you which method is active. Its sign-in lives in ~/.codex/auth.json, under CODEX_HOME.
• The desktop apps keep one account per data folder, and the browser one per profile.

That works, and it is a lot of plumbing to remember at the moment you just want to get on with the job.

What Quotum does for each account

When you add a Claude or Codex account, Quotum creates a copy of the Claude or ChatGPT desktop app for it, in ~/Applications, with its own data folder, and opens it so you sign in once. From then on, open the account in the menu bar panel to:

• Switch to the app — that account's own copy, already signed in;
• Open claude.ai or chatgpt.com in the account's Chrome profile;
• Pin my terminal here — a new terminal window where Claude Code or the Codex CLI runs on that account's configuration and picks up the last conversation. Terminal, iTerm2, kitty, Alacritty and WezTerm are supported.

And above all of this, each account's usage: its five-hour and weekly windows, when each resets, and how old the figure is, so that you open the account that can still take the job. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) and Cursor accounts are listed side by side too; Warp, Codebuff, Augment, opencode and Grok show the account you are signed in to.

Two limits, said plainly. Opening a Chrome profile works with Google Chrome only, and not while Chrome is already running: Quotum then tells you so instead of opening the wrong profile. And Quotum does not change the account a tool is signed in to: it writes none of their credentials.

Free trial for fourteen days, on the first two lines of the panel. Launch price: €4.99, then €9.99.

What the providers' terms say

Several accounts raise the question of bans, so here is what the terms we read actually say, quoted, on October 2, 2026:

• Anthropic's Consumer Terms: you may not share your account login information or credentials “or make your Account available to anyone else”.
• Anthropic's Usage Policy forbids, among other things, coordinating activity “across multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails”, circumventing a ban “through the use of a different account”, and intentionally bypassing the restrictions set in its products.
• OpenAI's Terms of Use: you may not share your account credentials “or make your account available to anyone else”, nor circumvent rate limits or restrictions.

Neither text, in the versions we read, forbids holding several accounts of your own. Both forbid sharing an account with someone else, and Anthropic's policy targets the use of several accounts to get around its limits or a ban. Quotum does not change what these terms allow, and it promises nothing on their behalf. It also reads each provider's quota in a way they do not provide for, a risk that is yours: it is set out on the pricing page and in the legal notice.

Sources

Consulted on October 2, 2026.

1. Claude Code, Authentication: code.claude.com/docs/en/authentication
2. Claude Code, Commands: code.claude.com/docs/en/commands
3. OpenAI, Codex authentication: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/auth
4. Anthropic, Consumer Terms of Service: anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms
5. Anthropic, Usage Policy: anthropic.com/legal/aup
6. OpenAI, Terms of Use: openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use