Let’s say you’re an agency and your team needs to use ChatGPT a lot, so you buy a subscription. But a ChatGPT subscription can only be used by one person at a time. If another team member tries to log in to that ChatGPT account, the account gets logged out of other devices.
So, how do you make your entire team share the same subscription without buying a business or enterprise plan, which costs pretty pennies?
The answer is browsers with built-in session management. These browsers let businesses collaborate over expensive tools without needing to buy multiple subscriptions.
But what’s session management to begin with? And what other purposes does it serve for companies other than sharing expensive subscriptions? You’ll read about both in this article. We’ll also introduce you to the top multi session browsers out there. So let’s start.
What Are Browser Sessions & Session Management?
When you open a browser and visit any website (and log in to it), you’ve started a session. A session is basically the browser’s way of remembering you on a website. Browsers keep track of sessions by storing a small piece of data called a session cookie. The session cookie of all websites is stored in one shared space.
That’s why most websites allow you to have only one session on a browser. You can start a new session on a website by logging out of the current account and logging in to another. The new login just replaces the old session cookie.
However, there are a few services, such as Gmail, that allow you to log into multiple Gmail accounts simultaneously on a single browser.
On other websites, you’ll have to log out and log back in with the other account to use multiple accounts.
Or you can open an incognito window and log in to the second account there.
But that’s pretty much where your options end with regular browsers because they can only handle one session per website at a time, unless the website itself allows logging into multiple accounts.
How Do Session Management Browsers Work?
So then, how do you open multiple sessions of a website using a browser? Using special browsers with built-in session management.
These browsers let you create browser profiles, each one of which functions as a completely isolated browsing environment. You can use one profile for your personal Amazon account, another for a client’s Amazon account, another for another client, and so on. In short, it’s like having multiple browsers within a single browser.
These browsers make this possible by creating separate cookie jars for each profile. That’s why the websites you visit have no idea you’re running multiple profiles from a single browser.
These profiles are also safe from a security point of view. They are completely sandboxed from each other. Even if you accidentally log into a sketchy website in one profile, your banking website cookies in another profile will be fully safe.
Why Companies Need Browser Session Management?
A large chunk of users who need browsers with session management are businesses.
That’s because once a business grows past a certain point, it has to manage several accounts. There could be client accounts, vendor portals, multiple social media profiles, different ad platforms, analytics dashboards, and a bunch of other logins.
But sometimes the need for session management arises from within. Businesses have teams that could need access to the same accounts.
All the reasons why companies need browser session management can be summed up in the following:
- Safety: In a regular browser where all cookies are stored in a shared space, if a website manages to steal session data or plant malicious code, other logged-in accounts also come under threat. But if the same thing happens in a multi-session browser, the threat stays contained in one session only.
- Delegating work: Let’s say you need your assistant to post on your company’s Instagram, but you don’t want to hand over the password because that can risk losing ownership. You can do this with session management. Make a browser profile using browsers with session management built in, like Gologin, log in to Instagram there, and simply add the assistant to the profile or share the session link. You can remove their access when the work is done or when they leave the company.
- Corporate management: Session management is a big need for agencies with loads of clients. Browsers with session management enable them to create a browser profile for each client and run their Google Ads, Facebook page, email accounts, and other platforms from there without constantly logging out one client’s accounts to accommodate another’s.
- Bypass cross-tracking: All websites track your activity and behavior across the internet using cookies in order to target you with relevant ads. But this can become a problem if, let’s say, you run your work and personal accounts or different client accounts from the same browser because the websites will confuse multiple personas as one and end up serving irrelevant ads. The only fix to this is session management best practices, which let you isolate accounts.
Top Browsers for Browser Session Management
We researched and listed the top four browsers with the best browser session management in the space. Below are their details.
1. Gologin
Gologin is one of the established browsers with built-in session management. It is for the users who manage multiple accounts and don’t want the hassle of constantly logging in and out of browser profiles.
How Gologin Maintains an Active Browser Session
Let’s understand this with a simple analogy. Let’s say you’re a business owner and manage your company’s social media accounts. But you have more important work on your plate, so you outsource social media management to a freelancer.
But to do that, you worry that you’ll have to share your account passwords. Well, not with Gologin!
You simply have to just create a browser profile on Gologin, log in to your social media account using that profile, and share that profile link with your freelancer.
When your freelance social media manager opens that same profile from their computer, they will already be logged in since you both are using the same browser profiles. Literally no password sharing or logging out and logging back in is required. The session just picks up where you left off.
How? Well, Gologin saves your session data within each profile. You can hand off work to team members, switch between devices, or come back days later, and your accounts stay logged in and ready to go.
Gologin’s Pricing and Proxies
Gologin’s starter plan, called Professional, lets you create up to 100 unique browser profiles. If you go for bigger plans, you can have as many as 100,000 browser profiles. That’s 100,000 browser sessions.
The profile sharing options are also all there. You can also control the level of access you want to give to each user. (Read further for a demonstration of how the profile sharing works on Gologin).
All Gologin plans also come with 2 GB of residential proxies renewed monthly. You can assign a unique IP address to each of your profiles to make them even more distinct in the eyes of the websites you visit.
There’s also a free plan, which gives you 3 browser profiles, 500MB of datacenter proxies every month for free, and about 10 locations to choose from for your proxies. Gologin integrates with a large number of popular proxy providers, so if you need more locations or different types of proxies, you can plug your own proxies too.
You can run the Gologin browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux. We also have an app for Android users and a web app.
Pricing (Annual)
- Professional: $4/month (10 profiles), $24/month (50 profiles), $39/month (100 profiles)
- Business: $59/month (300 profiles), $89/month (500 profiles)
- Enterprise: $149/month (1000 profiles)
- Custom: Starts from $244/month (starts at 2000 profiles)
Gologin also offers 14 days of free returns on all plans.
2. 1Browser
1Browser provides you with simpler session management than other dedicated multisession browsers.
It has an eerily similar vibe to Google Chrome. When you want to create newer profiles, you get those familiar colored profile circles like in Chrome, just with added fingerprint protection.
1Browser’s fingerprint masking is automatic. You cannot customize fingerprint parameters. The browser provides you with a random fingerprint by itself in the background.
On 1Browser’s free plan, you get 10 profiles and 5 free proxies from popular countries, including the US, Canada, Germany, France, and India. With paid plans, you can get 20 to 100 profiles at max.
Lastly, 1Browser is also available on Windows, Mac (including the newer ARM-based models), and Linux.
Pricing
As mentioned above, 1Browser has a forever-free plan, which lets you make 10 profiles and offers 5 free proxies from popular countries.
Other than this, there are 2 paid plans:
- $9/month (20 profiles, proxies from 100+ countries)
- $29/month (100 profiles, their best speed)
3. Multilogin
Multilogin has been around since 2015, which makes it one of the oldest multi-session browsers.
Being old means they have had almost a decade to perfect their product. This explains why Multilogin has custom browser engines. Its original browser engine was Stealthfox, which was based on Firefox, as the name suggests. Multilogin eventually retired this engine in favor of its modern Chromium-based engine called Mimic.
This new browser engine has native Android support. You can create mobile-only profiles and pretend to be running accounts from real mobile devices without buying a phone.
Multilogin doesn’t have a free trial or plan. Instead, there is a 3-day paid trial, which lets you run 5 browser profiles. When the trial ends, you can upgrade to paid plans and create as few as 10 and as many as 10,000 profiles.
Mulilogin also offers a large residential and mobile IP pool of over 30 million proxies.
Pricing
Multilogin has no free option. It only offers paid plans.
There’s a 3-day trial, which is also paid.
Here’s the pricing for the trial and paid plans:
- 3-day trial: €1.99 (5 browser profiles)
- Pro: starts from €9/month (starting from 10 browser profiles)
- Business: Starts from €159/month (starting from 300 profiles)
4. Incogniton
Incogniton is a Chromium-based multi-session browser with a dated interface.
You’ll require some time to adjust to the browser if you’re used to modern interfaces.
Just like Gologin and Multilogin, Incogniton generates a fingerprint for your profiles automatically, but you also have the control to customize its parameters.
Incogniton is only compatible with Windows and Mac. There’s no mobile or web app either.
When it comes to session management, Incogniton lets you run 10 browser profiles in its 2-month trial. With paid plans, you can extend that limit to 5000 profiles.
Incogniton also recently added built-in proxies with a few locations. These proxies are shared and not suitable for account management. You can use them to access blocked sites, though. You can shop for better third-party proxies in its proxy store.
Pricing
- Starter Plus: $19.99/month (10 profiles)
- Entrepreneur: $29.99/month (50 profiles)
- Professional: $79.99/month (150 profiles)
- Custom Package: $149.99/month (500 profiles)
Guide: How to Safely Share Fully Isolated Browser Session with Gologin
As promised, here’s how to set up profiles in Gologin and share them with others.
1. Download Gologin: Create a free account on Gologin’s website, then download and install the browser for your operating system. Once installation is complete, launch the browser and log in to the account you just created.
2. Create your first profile: In the top left of the Gologin screen, click the + icon to create a new browser profile. Give a suitable name to your profile based on what it’ll be used for. Then, assign an IP to your profile in the Location column.It’s better and more convenient to use Gologin’s built-in proxies: you’ll only have to select a country. To plug in your own proxies, there’s a small manual procedure.
3. Log in to whatever services you need: Launch the profile by pressing the Run button next to the profile’s name. A browser window will open – this is your isolated browser session. Head to any website and log in with your credentials. Could be ChatGPT, Google Ads, Claude, Semrush, a client’s Instagram account.
4. Share the session with others: Click the three dots next to the profile you want to share and select Share. A pop-up window will appear asking you for your teammate’s Gologin email address. Type it in. To share a profile with multiple users, type in the email addresses of all of them.
5. Next, choose what level of access they should get and click the Share button. There are 3 permission levels:
- Can run: Users can view and launch profiles only.
- Can edit: Users can view, run, edit, and clone profiles.
- Full access: Everything in edit + ability to share profile with other people.
We also have a video of this process showing how to share a ChatGPT account.
The shared profile will immediately appear in your colleague’s profile list when they install and open Gologin. It’s best to have Gologin app installed, but they can also run the shared profile from Gologin’s safe web app.
So get Gologin today and sign in to as many accounts of a website as possible, or collaborate with your team over any platform without buying extra subscriptions.
