Direct answer
Are Claude artifacts public?
The short answer
Claude artifacts are private by default: Anthropic says “Artifacts start private to you.” When you share one, “Everyone needs a Claude account”, so a link shared with “Anyone with the link” opens only for people signed in to Claude. The exception is a legacy artifact (made in a chat before September 16, 2026) published with the Publish button: that page is public to anyone with the link. This is the state as of October 2026.
Who sees what
Who can see an artifact, stage by stage
What Publish really does
What publishing a legacy artifact means
As of October 2026, the Publish button appears only on legacy artifacts, on Free, Pro and Max. Anthropic’s help center says anyone with the link “can view and use it without a Claude account”, and you can get embed code for other sites. That’s useful for things meant to be public: a demo, an open tool. But anyone with the URL can share it onward, the page lives on Anthropic’s domain rather than yours, and once unpublished it can’t be published again.
Public links travel. In July 2026, TechCrunch reported that some shared Claude chats and artifacts had turned up in Google results; Anthropic said share links are not discoverable unless people post them somewhere public. For a proposal with pricing in it, choose a link that tells search engines not to list it.
The private path
When the answer needs to be “private, on my domain, tracked”
Password, hashed
On Solo and Team, lock the page so only people with the link and the password can open it. Passwords are hashed (we can’t see them) and checked at the edge.
Noindex by default
Every Pagelive page, free or paid, ships with noindex headers, so search engines are told not to list it. You opt in to indexing, never out.
Your domain, tracked
Free pages show a view count. Solo and Team add your own domain (5 on Solo, 25 on Team) and opens, unique viewers, country, and time on page.
Artifact privacy FAQ
Not by default. As of October 2026, artifacts start private to you. Sharing one with “Anyone with the link” lets anyone signed in to Claude open it, and Anthropic says people without a Claude account can’t. The one fully public case is a legacy artifact (made in a chat before September 16, 2026) published with the Publish button on Free, Pro or Max: that link opens without an account.
Anyone with the URL can open a published legacy artifact, and they can pass the link on. Treat it as public: you don’t control who it reaches. A link to a new artifact shared with “Anyone with the link” can also be passed on, but it opens only for people signed in to Claude.
As of October 2026, only legacy artifacts (made in a chat before September 16, 2026) can be published, with the Publish button on Free, Pro or Max. Anthropic says anyone with that link “can view and use it without a Claude account”, and you can get embed code to put it on other sites. Anyone with the URL can pass it on, and once you unpublish it, it can’t be published again.
Anyone signed in to Claude who has the link; as of October 2026, Anthropic says people without a Claude account can’t open it. On Team and Enterprise, people outside your organization get in only if an owner allows sharing outside the organization. The exception is a legacy artifact published with the Publish button, which opens for anyone with the link, no account needed.
For a published legacy artifact, click Unpublish. Anthropic notes you can’t publish that artifact again afterwards, and unpublishing deletes the storage data it used; anyone who already saved a copy still has it. For a new artifact, set its Share menu back to “Only you” (Pro and Max) or “Only people invited” (Team and Enterprise).
Publish it as a Pagelive link: it opens in any browser without a Claude account and is noindex by default. Solo adds a hashed password, your own domain, and analytics on who opened it and for how long. Free for 2 public pages.