Shared account vs your own account: what you actually get

The cheap option is not a cheaper subscription. It is a different product with a different failure mode.

A shared account — sometimes sold as "carpool" or "family" — is one vendor account divided between several people. It is usually a quarter of the price and it is not the same product. Understanding why matters more than the discount.

How sharing is implemented

There are two designs, and both fail differently.

• One login, many people. Everyone gets the same email and password. The selling point is simplicity; the problem is that every message, project and uploaded file is visible to anyone who logs in. Conversation history is not per-user — it belongs to the account.
• A proxy with quotas. A gateway sits in front of the account and gives each buyer a key with a token budget. Your conversations are isolated, but there is a middleman reading the traffic, and the quota rarely matches what was advertised.

The three failure modes

Detection. Vendors look for patterns that are hard to explain any other way: concurrent sessions from different networks, impossible travel between requests, browsers that do not match the account's history. A shared account is the most legible version of that pattern there is, and when it is caught, everyone on it loses access at once. We cannot promise any specific outcome and we do not know how the vendor decides — we can describe the structure you are buying.

Data. With a shared login, the other people on the account can read your prompts. If you paste code, logs, keys or client data into that account, you have disclosed it to strangers. This is the part buyers underestimate most.

Continuity. The operator can vanish. Prepaying six months to a month-old shop is how people lose money — not through a ban, but through the shop simply stopping.

What a personal account actually includes

What the discount is really paying for

Do the subtraction honestly. Claude Pro here is 105 CNY for one month, about 14 euro, and the same plan activated on a shared login might cost a third of that. What the difference buys you is not a cheaper subscription but a shorter expected lifetime, and a privacy promise nobody can enforce. For a chat-only workflow with nothing sensitive, that can be a reasonable trade. For anything you are paid for, it is not.

When sharing is defensible

There is one honest case: you want to evaluate whether a plan is worth it for a few days, with no sensitive input, and you accept losing it. Test the product, then buy properly. Using a shared account for work you are paid for is a false economy — the first leak or termination costs more than the year of subscription you saved.

The rule we use

If the account will contain anything you would not paste into a public chat, it cannot be shared. That single question resolves most of the decision.

What this shop does instead

Every subscription sold here is applied to an account you already own and already sign in to. The only thing we need is the Claude Organization ID, from Settings, then Account, starting with org_; for ChatGPT it is the session token from the account's own sign-in session. No password, no 2FA code, no recovery codes, and no shared login handed to you at any point. Payment is crypto only, an order is one month, and a refund is the order amount times the unused days divided by the total days, with a replacement offered first.

All plans on this site are activated on your own account — see the current price list, and read why accounts get restricted before you decide that the discount is worth it.

Common questions

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