Open Gmail, Instagram or any site in several accounts side by side, in one window. Each container has its own cookies and page storage, kept on your computer.
Free for 2 containers. Pro $29 once.
Inbox
Signed in as sam@acme.example
Inbox
Signed in as sam.lee@post.example
Inbox
Signed in as sam@client-a.example
Pick a tab group: same site, another account
01Side by side
Each container has its own cookies, local storage and IndexedDB. Sign in to the same site as different people in tabs next to each other.
02Links follow
New tabs, popups and "Sign in with Google" windows opened from a container tab open in the same container, so sign-ins never land in the wrong account.
03Stays local
No account, no sync server, no analytics. BentoTabs never sends your cookies or browsing anywhere, and it works offline.
Servers of ours that your cookies or browsing go to. There are none.
| Containers, their names and colors | This computer |
|---|---|
| Cookies and site data from container tabs | This computer |
| Daily snapshots for undo | This computer |
| Backups | A file you keep |
| Analytics, tracking, remote config | None |
| Your licence key and a random install id, if you buy Pro | Polar, about weekly |
| A site report | Only if you send it |
04Keyboard
Alt+Shift+K opens the container list, type to filter and press Enter. Alt+Shift+X opens a temporary container.
Alt+Shift+K
Opens the container list. Type to filter, Enter to open.
1 2 3 … 9
In the list, opens the container with that number on its tab.
Alt+Shift+X
Opens a temporary container, deleted when its last tab closes.
Try them here: the caps press with your keys. On a Mac, Alt is Option.
05AI agents
An agent such as Claude in Chrome works in a container tab the same way as in a normal tab, and the tabs it opens stay in that container. You choose which containers it may open on its own.
06The details
Users of other container extensions complained most about lost sessions, sign-ins in the wrong account, and data sent to someone else's cloud.
Open a throwaway container for a quick check or a one-off sign-in. Everything in it is deleted when its last tab closes.
Container tabs sit in a tab group with the container's name and color, and the site icon gets a colored dot.
Undo a delete or a sign-out, roll back to a daily snapshot, and save a backup file you keep. Tabs return to their containers after a restart.
07Pricing
Free keeps 2 saved containers and unlimited temporary ones, for good. Pro is one payment, not a subscription.
$0Forever
No account, no card. The free plan does not expire.
Coming soon$29Once
No subscription. Refunds within 14 days of purchase.
Buy inside the extension, under Plan & licence. Pro unlocks at once and keeps working offline.
08Questions
Your browsing is not. Containers, their cookies and their site data are stored in the extension's storage on this computer. BentoTabs has no servers to send them to. Pro talks to Polar, our payment provider: when you activate, it sends your licence key, a label with the product name and the date, and a random id made for this install, then checks the key about once a week. Pro keeps working offline for 30 days between checks.
Yes, just like a normal browser: sites in one container can share a sign-in, for example Google and YouTube. Use different containers to keep accounts apart.
No. Chrome only allows one proxy for the whole browser, so every container uses your normal connection. We would rather say so than ship a proxy feature that half works.
No. BentoTabs keeps cookies and page storage apart. It does not hide your device, screen or IP, so a site can still tell that two accounts use the same computer. Please follow each site's rules on multiple accounts.
No. Chrome on Android and iOS does not run extensions. It works in Chrome on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.
No. A container keeps its sign-ins, including "session" cookies, until you sign it out or delete it. Real expiry dates set by sites are still honored.
They keep your normal Chrome cookies. Two things touch them, both once per site: the first time a container opens a site or gets a sign-in copied for it, normal tabs already open on it reload, so they cannot read the container's page data; and the site's service workers from normal browsing are removed, so they cannot answer container tabs with your normal account. The site registers them again when it needs them.
Yes. On a tab where you are signed in, choose Reopen in… and turn on Bring my sign-in: the site's cookies, local storage and IndexedDB are copied into the container you pick, in place of what it had for that site. Under Containers in the settings, you can copy the cookies of many sites at once. Normal browsing stays signed in. Chrome keeps each browser profile's data apart, so another profile takes two steps, with Pro: export its sign-ins there into a file encrypted with your passphrase, then import the file here. Only cookies come over from another profile.
No. BentoTabs cannot be allowed in incognito, so containers live in normal windows only and private browsing leaves no container data behind.
Nothing to set up for the basics: an agent working in a container tab keeps that container's sign-ins, and the tabs it opens from links or in its own tab group stay in the container. To let an agent open a container by itself, turn on AI agent support in the options and allow that container; it gets a private link that switches a tab into it. Links clicked on web pages are refused, so a website cannot push you into a container. Agents that read cookies through Chrome DevTools still see your normal cookies.
BentoTabs notices sign-in loops and offers to open the page normally or try again. Use "Report" in that prompt or on the compatibility page to tell us which site. A report contains the site's domain, the extension version and what you write, nothing else.
29 US dollars once, not a subscription, with a 14-day refund. The free plan keeps 2 saved containers and unlimited temporary ones, forever.
Chrome deletes the extension's storage, so every container and its sign-ins are removed. Export a backup from the options page first if you might come back.
Something missing? See the help page.