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Command reference

claude auth login

Signs you in to your Anthropic account from the terminal.

Terminal commandsAccount and appscurrent

What the documentation does not say

--console signs in with Anthropic Console for API billing instead of a Claude subscription. Those are two separate accounts, and signing in to the wrong one is the usual reason a session bills where you did not expect it. --sso forces SSO, --email pre-fills the address.