diff --git a/crates/bitwarden-c/src/c.rs b/crates/bitwarden-c/src/c.rs
index 32abe3dc0..bd10f7d88 100644
--- a/crates/bitwarden-c/src/c.rs
+++ b/crates/bitwarden-c/src/c.rs
@@ -4,17 +4,24 @@ use bitwarden_json::client::Client;
 
 use crate::{box_ptr, ffi_ref};
 
+#[repr(C)]
+pub struct CClient {
+    /// Associates the tokio runtime to the `Client`, ensuring the runtime has the same lifecycle
+    /// as the `Client`.
+    runtime: tokio::runtime::Runtime,
+    client: Client,
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
-#[tokio::main]
-pub async extern "C" fn run_command(
-    c_str_ptr: *const c_char,
-    client_ptr: *const Client,
-) -> *mut c_char {
+pub extern "C" fn run_command(c_str_ptr: *const c_char, client_ptr: *const CClient) -> *mut c_char {
     let client = unsafe { ffi_ref!(client_ptr) };
     let input_str = str::from_utf8(unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(c_str_ptr) }.to_bytes())
         .expect("Input should be a valid string");
 
-    let result = client.run_command(input_str).await;
+    let result = client
+        .runtime
+        .block_on(client.client.run_command(input_str));
+
     match std::ffi::CString::new(result) {
         Ok(cstr) => cstr.into_raw(),
         Err(_) => panic!("failed to return command result: null encountered"),
@@ -23,17 +30,25 @@ pub async extern "C" fn run_command(
 
 // Init client, potential leak! You need to call free_mem after this!
 #[no_mangle]
-pub extern "C" fn init(c_str_ptr: *const c_char) -> *mut Client {
+pub extern "C" fn init(c_str_ptr: *const c_char) -> *mut CClient {
     // This will only fail if another logger was already initialized, so we can ignore the result
     let _ = env_logger::try_init();
-    if c_str_ptr.is_null() {
-        box_ptr!(Client::new(None))
+
+    let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .expect("Failed to build tokio runtime");
+
+    let client = if c_str_ptr.is_null() {
+        Client::new(None)
     } else {
         let input_string = str::from_utf8(unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(c_str_ptr) }.to_bytes())
             .expect("Input should be a valid string")
             .to_owned();
-        box_ptr!(Client::new(Some(input_string)))
-    }
+        Client::new(Some(input_string))
+    };
+
+    box_ptr!(CClient { runtime, client })
 }
 
 // Free mem
diff --git a/crates/bitwarden-py/src/client.rs b/crates/bitwarden-py/src/client.rs
index 510de1db4..9c12a624d 100644
--- a/crates/bitwarden-py/src/client.rs
+++ b/crates/bitwarden-py/src/client.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use bitwarden_json::client::Client as JsonClient;
 use pyo3::prelude::*;
 
 #[pyclass]
-pub struct BitwardenClient(JsonClient);
+pub struct BitwardenClient(tokio::runtime::Runtime, JsonClient);
 
 #[pymethods]
 impl BitwardenClient {
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ impl BitwardenClient {
         // result
         let _ = pyo3_log::try_init();
 
-        Self(JsonClient::new(settings_string))
+        let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+            .enable_all()
+            .build()
+            .expect("Failed to build tokio runtime");
+
+        Self(runtime, JsonClient::new(settings_string))
     }
 
     #[pyo3(text_signature = "($self, command_input)")]
     fn run_command(&self, command_input: String) -> String {
-        run_command(&self.0, &command_input)
+        self.0.block_on(self.1.run_command(&command_input))
     }
 }
-
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn run_command(client: &JsonClient, input_str: &str) -> String {
-    client.run_command(input_str).await
-}
diff --git a/languages/go/bitwarden_client.go b/languages/go/bitwarden_client.go
index c6c9e09b4..5e951ecd1 100644
--- a/languages/go/bitwarden_client.go
+++ b/languages/go/bitwarden_client.go
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func NewBitwardenClient(apiURL *string, identityURL *string) (BitwardenClientInt
 
 func (c *BitwardenClient) AccessTokenLogin(accessToken string, stateFile *string) error {
 	req := AccessTokenLoginRequest{AccessToken: accessToken, StateFile: stateFile}
-	command := Command{AccessTokenLogin: &req}
+	command := Command{LoginAccessToken: &req}
 
 	responseStr, err := c.commandRunner.RunCommand(command)
 	if err != nil {