Profiles overview

A profile is an isolated browser identity. Each profile runs as its own self-contained browser with its own fingerprint, proxy, cookies, open tabs and history, so the sites you visit in one profile cannot connect it to any other profile on your account.

What a profile contains

When you launch a profile, Santiago opens a dedicated browser instance built from everything you configured for that profile. Nothing is shared between profiles unless you explicitly share it with a teammate.

Part	What it is	Where to configure
Fingerprint	The device identity sites see: operating system, User-Agent, screen size, language, timezone and more	Create and edit a profile, How fingerprints work
Proxy	The network connection the profile uses, so each identity can browse from its own IP and location	Configure a proxy
Cookies and session	Logins, tokens and site data — this is what keeps you signed in across launches	Cookies, Session sync
Open tabs	The tabs that were open when you last closed the browser, reopened on the next launch	Session sync
History and local storage	Browsing history, cache and per-site storage, kept inside the profile	—

Profiles are independent

Every profile is a fully separate identity:

A login in one profile does not carry over to another — sign in to each profile separately.
Each profile can use a different proxy, so two profiles can appear to browse from two different countries at the same time.
Each profile has its own fingerprint, so sites see two unrelated devices.
You can run several profiles at the same time, side by side. The number of profiles you can keep, and how many you can run at once, depends on your plan — see Plans.

This independence is the whole point of using profiles: it lets you keep separate accounts and identities cleanly apart on a single computer.

Profile status

At any moment a profile is in one of a few states. Santiago shows the current status on each profile card and updates it in real time.

Status	Meaning
`idle`	No browser is running and the profile is not in use anywhere — ready to launch
`launching`	The browser is starting up
`running`	The browser is open on this device
`stopping`	The browser is shutting down and saving its session
`locked`	The profile is in use on another device

Where your profile state lives

Your profiles and their state are stored in the cloud and tied to your account, not just to one computer.

Settings (name, notes, tags, fingerprint, proxy, geolocation) are saved as soon as you create or edit a profile.
Session state (cookies and open tabs) is downloaded when you launch a profile and uploaded again when you stop it.

Because everything is synced, you can sign in on another computer and pick up the same profiles, with the same logins, right where you left off. While a profile is running, it is locked so another device cannot overwrite the session at the same time.

To learn how session capture and restore works in detail, see Session sync.

What you can do with profiles

Create and edit a profile — set up a name, fingerprint, proxy and geolocation.
Organize profiles — tag, search, filter and sort to keep large lists manageable.
Bulk actions — act on many profiles at once.
Session sync and Cookies — manage logins, import and export cookies.