Can you share a Claude subscription? How to safely share Claude Code with friends and team (no password, revoke anytime)

Here’s the short answer: Yes, you can share it, and you don’t need to give your account password to anyone.

A Claude Max subscription isn’t cheap, so many teams, friends, and family members want to share one plan: one person subscribes, and everyone else can also run Claude Code. To share a Claude subscription, the traditional options were both bad:

• Give your account password directly to someone — Anthropic’s terms of service require the account to be used only by its owner, and sharing credentials alone carries a ban risk. Plus, the other person can change your password and see all your conversations, and you can’t revoke access for just one person—you’d have to change your password and kick everyone out.
• Each person subscribes separately — Everyone pays full price. Expensive.

PandaNpc offers a third way: share one of your Claude Code connections. The other person gets a link and can remotely use the Claude Code on your machine from their own account. It consumes your subscription quota, but your account password is never exposed, and you can precisely revoke it at any time.

What exactly is shared?

You install pandapaw on your dev machine and create a relay connection (the same connection you normally use to remotely connect back to your dev machine from your phone / another computer / browser). Sharing a connection does the following:

• Generates an independent, revocable share code/link;
• The other person uses that link to add the connection to their own PandaNpc account;
• After that, the other person can remotely control the Claude Code on your dev machine—view sessions, send commands, approve tool calls, see code changes. All of it runs on your machine, using the Claude Code under your subscription.

Key point: the other person does not get your real credentials; they get an independent token generated specifically for this share. So revoking it is thorough.

How to share a Claude Code account (owner side, two steps)

In the connection list on the left side of the PandaNpc desktop or web app (pandanpc.com/agent):

1. Right-click the connection you want to share → “Share Connection” (only relay connections can be shared; local connections on this machine have no bridge and cannot be shared).
2. In the popup dialog, choose an expiration (1 day / 7 days / 30 days / forever) → click “Generate share link” → copy the link and send it to the other person.

After it’s generated, a green “Shared” badge appears next to the connection name, and the right-click menu also adds “Revoke Share”. You can come back and revoke it anytime.

How the other person claims it (redeemer side)

Once the other person gets the link, they can do either of the following:

• Open the link directly: Open https://pandanpc.com/agent?connect=xxxx in PandaNpc (web or desktop), and a “New Connection” dialog will automatically appear with the share code prefilled. Confirm to import.
• Paste to import: In the Connection Link field of “New Connection”, paste the link (or just the share code), and it will be recognized and claimed automatically.

After claiming, the connection appears in their own account and works just like their own connections—but it runs the Claude Code on your machine.

Why this is much safer than directly sharing your Claude account

The core design of this sharing method is control:

	Directly giving account password	PandaNpc shared connection
What the other person gets	Your account password (full access)	An independent share token (can only connect to this one connection)
Validity	Forever, until you change your password	Can be set to 1/7/30 days or forever
Revoke one person	Impossible—can only change password to kick everyone	One-click revoke, the other person disconnects immediately and can’t reconnect
Does revoking affect you?	Changing password means you have to log in again	Doesn’t affect your own connections at all
Sessions/history	The other person can see everything	Can only use this one connection

Because each share is an independent token, when you revoke one share, only the person who used that code to connect is kicked out. You and everyone else you’ve shared with are unaffected.

Before you share: important safety notes

Sharing a connection means letting the other person do a lot of things on your machine. The dialog also shows a prominent warning at the top when generating a share:

• The other person can run Claude Code, execute commands and tools, and read/write your project files on your machine.
• The other person consumes your Claude subscription / quota on your machine.
• Revocable at any time: after revoking, anyone already connected via that code is immediately disconnected and can’t reconnect; this doesn’t affect you.

So: only share with people you trust, give it a reasonable expiration, and revoke promptly when done. For extra safety, you can create a dedicated connection for sharing that runs in an isolated directory / environment.

Manage all the shares you’ve sent out

On your Personal Center page there is a “Connections I shared” card listing all your active shares:

• Each share’s connection name, how many people have claimed it, and expiration;
• One-click copy link and one-click revoke.

Revoke whichever you want to take back—it’s all clear at a glance.

Typical use cases: share Claude with family and friends

• Team shares one subscription: One person subscribes to Claude Max and shares the dev machine connection with teammates. Everyone uses that one subscription remotely to run Claude Code.
• Share with family / friends: Give family or friends a link. They don’t need to sign up for Claude or touch your password; they can use Claude Code on your machine.
• Temporary help for a friend/colleague: Give a 7-day link so they can use your Claude Code temporarily; it expires automatically.
• Show a collaborator/client a project: Create a separate connection for that project, share it, and revoke it when done—no loose ends.

FAQ

Can you share a Claude subscription with others?

Yes. You don’t need to give out your account password: use PandaNpc to generate a share link from the Claude Code connection on your machine and send it to the other person. After they claim it in their own PandaNpc account, they can remotely use the Claude Code running on your machine under your subscription. Each share is an independent token, can have an expiration, and can be revoked with one click at any time.

Can you share Claude with family?

You don’t need to share an account. Giving your account password to family is sharing credentials, which Anthropic’s terms don’t allow and isn’t safe. A better approach is to share a connection: your family can use the link to remotely use Claude Code on your machine, without ever seeing your account password, email, or payment info, and you can revoke access at any time.

Can Claude Max be shared by multiple people?

Claude Max quotas are counted per account. With shared connections, teammates or friends all use the one Claude Code on your machine and consume your single Max quota—this works well for light sharing (for example, one heavy user plus a few occasional users). If many people use it heavily at the same time, the quota will run out faster; in that case, consider separate subscriptions or staggered usage.

What are the risks of directly sharing your Claude account password?

Four serious problems: the other person has full access to the account (can change your password, see all your conversations and data); Anthropic’s terms prohibit sharing credentials, so there’s a ban risk; you can’t revoke just one person—to take it back you’d have to change your password and kick everyone out; and if anything goes wrong, the responsibility is entirely on you. Shared connections avoid all four: no credentials are handed over, revoke per person, and expiration is automatic.

Can the other person still use it after you revoke the share?

No. Revoking is thorough: anyone connected through that share code will be disconnected immediately and cannot reconnect, because that token becomes invalid at once. Your own connection and the shares you’ve sent to other people are completely unaffected.

Whose quota is used when the other person uses it?

It consumes your subscription quota—Claude Code runs on your machine and is logged in with your subscription. So only share with people you trust, set a reasonable expiration, and check/revoke it anytime in the “Connections I shared” section of your Personal Center.

Summary

	What it solves
Sidebar “Share Connection”	No need to give your account password—share a link so others can use your Claude Code
Expiration (1/7/30 days/forever)	Expires automatically, no need to remember to revoke manually
Independent revocable token	One-click revoke—the other person disconnects immediately and can’t reconnect, without affecting you
“Connections I shared” management page	See who claimed it, how long it lasts, revoke anytime—all at a glance

One sentence: One subscription, safely shared with people you trust—and revoked with one click anytime.

Try it now: on pandanpc.com, open the connection list in the desktop or web app, right-click any relay connection, and select “Share Connection”. If you haven’t installed it yet, first install pandapaw on your dev machine (curl -fsSL https://cos.pandanpc.com/pandapaw/install.sh | sh), create a remote connection, then share it with others.