Publish and share a Claude Artifact

Turn a thing you built in a Claude chat — a calculator, a dashboard, a one-page tool — into a link anyone can open in their browser. No install, no account on their side, ~5 sec to view.

Time: ~2 min, once you've built it. The one step nobody can do for you is a single click: Publish. [estimate] Last verified: 2026-06-07 · button labels and plan rules come from Anthropic's Publishing and sharing artifacts help page. [confirmed]

Before you begin

A Claude account on a Free, Pro, or Max plan. Publishing a public link works on all three. Team and Enterprise are different — they get Share (org-only), not Publish; see the bottom of this page. [confirmed]
The thing itself, built as an artifact. That's the panel that opens to the right of the chat when you ask Claude to build something self-contained — a tool, a page, a chart. You don't toggle it on; Claude makes one whenever the output is substantial and standalone (roughly 15+ lines). [confirmed]
A browser. This whole flow lives in claude.ai — there's no terminal step.

Never made an artifact? Just open a chat and ask for one, e.g. "Build me a single-page tip calculator I can share." The panel appears on the right; everything below acts on that panel.

The one thing to say

In claude.ai, describe what you want and let Claude build it in the artifact panel:

Build this as a single self-contained artifact I can publish — no external files.

That keeps it to one shareable unit. The Publish click after is yours — an agent can't press it for you.

Steps

Build it, then land on the right version. Iterate until it's right ("make the button bigger", "fix the total"). Each change is a new version. Before you publish, use the version selector at the top of the artifact panel to land on the exact one you want public — Publish freezes that version. [confirmed]
Click Publish. Top-right of the artifact panel. This is the single un-delegable click. [confirmed]
Copy the public link. A link appears — copy it. That's what you send. Anyone who opens it sees and uses your tool, no Claude account needed, ~5 sec to load. [confirmed]
Send it. Paste the link into an email, Slack, a doc — wherever your recipient is.
Optional — embed it in a page. After publishing, click Get embed code, then list which sites may show it in the Allowed domains box (comma-separated, e.g. myorg.org, blog.myorg.org). Paste the snippet into your site. [confirmed]

To take it down later: open the artifact, click Unpublish. Access stops at once.

One-way door. Once you Unpublish, you cannot publish that same artifact again — you'd have to rebuild it as a new one. So unpublish only when you really mean it. [confirmed]

If it doesn't work

No Publish button, only Share → you're on a Team or Enterprise plan. Share is org-only by design (see below). To make a public link you'd need a personal Free/Pro/Max account. [confirmed]
Recipient hits a sign-up wall → your artifact uses Claude's AI at runtime (it calls the model when used). Those features prompt the viewer to sign in with their own Claude account; plain HTML tools (calculators, forms, dashboards) don't. If you need it open to everyone, build a version that doesn't call the AI live. [confirmed]
Recipient sees an old version → you published before landing on the final one. Re-select the right version, then Publish again to update the link. [confirmed]
Embed shows blank on your site → the site's domain isn't in Allowed domains. Add it exactly (with subdomain if any), comma-separated, and re-copy the embed code. [confirmed]
"Can I just un-publish and re-publish to fix something?" → no — unpublish is permanent for that artifact. Edit, land on the new version, and re-Publish without unpublishing first; that updates the existing public link. [confirmed]
No expiry, no password, no view count → Claude's built-in publish has none of these, and a public artifact may be indexed by search engines. Don't publish anything you wouldn't want found. The help docs are silent on indexing specifically. [unclear — not stated in Anthropic's docs; reported by third-party guides, seen 2026-06-07]

On Team or Enterprise, the button is Share, not Publish, and the link stays inside your org. [confirmed]

Land on the right version (same as above).
Click Share, then Share & copy link.
Send the link. Recipients must be in your Team/Enterprise org and sign in with that account to open it — and if the artifact came from a project, they need access to that project too. [confirmed]

To stop sharing: Share → Unshare. There is no public-link or embed option on these plans. [confirmed]

Watch / read

Best written walkthrough: Anthropic's own Publishing and sharing artifacts — the authoritative source for the exact buttons, plan rules, and embed flow. Pair it with What are artifacts for the build side. [confirmed]
Video — How to Share an Artifact Publicly in Claude.ai — Guideflow, ~1 min click-through — why this one: a silent, step-by-step screen tour of exactly the Publish → copy-link path, fastest way to see where the button is. [unclear — interactive guide, not a transcript-verified video]

(A YouTube search for "publish Claude artifact" surfaced only longer, broader "what are artifacts" overviews — none cleared the under-3-min, on-task bar for this single action, so the doc above is the better short reference.)

Built it as a repo or local app, not in a chat? → a GitHub repository hands over the files so others can build on it.
Want others to rebuild it themselves from scratch? → a reconstruction prompt — one block of text that regenerates a close cousin, no link to maintain.
Need a full site with your own domain? → deploy a website.

Sources

Publishing and sharing artifacts — Anthropic Help Center (Publish vs Share, plan rules, version-first, no-account viewing, Get embed code / Allowed domains, unpublish is permanent) — checked 2026-06-07
What are artifacts and how do I use them? — Anthropic Help Center (what an artifact is, the side panel, versions, AI-powered artifacts authenticate per-viewer) — checked 2026-06-07