diff --git a/.changeset/wicked-chairs-own.md b/.changeset/wicked-chairs-own.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..db5b71a1c12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/wicked-chairs-own.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"thirdweb": patch
+---
+
+when explicitly passing `clientId` to `createThirdwebClient()` prefer it over computing the `clientId` from a passed `secretKey` option
diff --git a/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.test.ts b/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.test.ts
index 9f17c3412bc..fd83d4a1503 100644
--- a/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.test.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ describe("client", () => {
     expect(client.clientId).toBe(computeClientIdFromSecretKey("bar"));
     expect(client.secretKey).toBe("bar");
   });
-  it("should ignore clientId if secretKey is provided", () => {
+  it("should NOT ignore clientId if secretKey is provided", () => {
     const client = createThirdwebClient({ clientId: "foo", secretKey: "bar" });
-    expect(client.clientId).toBe(computeClientIdFromSecretKey("bar"));
+    expect(client.clientId).toBe("foo");
     expect(client.secretKey).toBe("bar");
   });
   it("should throw an error if neither clientId nor secretKey is provided", () => {
diff --git a/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.ts b/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.ts
index 796a350c5aa..a804210b8ed 100644
--- a/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.ts
+++ b/packages/thirdweb/src/client/client.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ export function createThirdwebClient(
         throw new Error("clientId must be provided when using a JWT secretKey");
       }
     } else {
-      realClientId = computeClientIdFromSecretKey(secretKey);
+      // always PREFER the clientId if provided, only compute it from the secretKey if we don't have a clientId passed explicitly
+      realClientId = clientId ?? computeClientIdFromSecretKey(secretKey);
     }
   }