Developers repeatedly log out to switch work and personal accounts
Developers, freelancers, and consultants use separate work, personal, or client accounts in tools such as Claude Code and Codex, but often have to log out and authenticate again to change identities. Others copy auth files, set environment variables, or write scripts, and some report that credentials or sessions are not cleanly isolated. The evidence spans CLI, editor, and desktop apps; a focused account manager could address the CLI workflows first, but app-specific credential handling makes broad support difficult.
For developers and consultants juggling multiple work and personal accounts. Mentioned from Jun 2018 to Jul 2026 on GitHub.
21 different people described this problem in 8 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 6.0/10
- Pain
- 6.5/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 4.4/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Users who need to juggle multiple ChatGPT/API accounts (for example, those with multiple accounts, multiple API keys, or who work for different clients) must manually swap CODEXHOME, copy auth files, or repeatedly log in and out. This is tedious, time-consuming, and not user-friendly
Feature Request: Support multiple account login and switching (like `gh auth switch`) +1 — daily pain point when juggling a Team plan and a personal plan on the same machine.
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