Direct answer
Are Claude artifacts public?
Private while they sit in your chat, public the moment you hit Publish. Here’s exactly who can see an artifact at each stage — and what to do when the answer needs to be “private, on my domain, tracked.”
The short answer
Claude artifacts are private by default: an artifact lives inside your conversation, and only people who can open that chat can see it. It becomes public the moment you use Claude’s Publish button, which creates a page anyone with the link can open. For client work, publish privately instead.
Who sees what
Who can see an artifact, stage by stage
What Publish really does
What publishing to claude.site means
Claude’s Publish button takes the artifact out of your chat and turns it into a standalone public page — as of June 2026, on a claude.site link. That’s genuinely useful for things meant to be public: a fun demo, an open tool, something you’d post anywhere. But it means anyone with the URL can open it and share it onward, the page lives on Anthropic’s domain rather than yours, and you can’t see who viewed it.
Worth knowing more broadly: most free ways to put an AI-built page online work the same way — the page goes up publicly, where search engines can index it. Fine for a portfolio piece; the wrong default for a proposal with pricing in it.
The private path
When the answer needs to be “private, on my domain, tracked”
For client and confidential work, publish the artifact as a Pagelive link instead. Same two minutes of effort — a very different set of defaults.
Password, encrypted
Lock the page so only people with the link and the password can open it. Passwords are encrypted — we can’t see them — and checked at the edge.
Noindex by default
Every Pagelive page ships with noindex headers, so search engines are told not to list it. You opt in to indexing, never out.
Your domain, tracked
Serve it from your own domain (5 with Founding, 25 on Team) and see opens, unique viewers, country, and time on page for every send.
Artifact privacy FAQ
Not by default. An artifact lives inside your conversation, and only people with access to that chat or project can see it. It becomes public only if you publish it — Claude’s Publish button creates a page anyone with the URL can open.
Anyone with the URL can open it, and they can pass the link on. Once an artifact is published natively, treat it as public: you don’t control who it reaches, and there’s no way to see who opened it.
As of June 2026 you can unpublish an artifact from Claude, which takes the public page down — though anyone who already saved a copy still has it. For work that was never meant to be public, the safer pattern is to publish privately from the start, behind a password.
Publish it as a Pagelive link: noindex by default so it won’t show up on Google, an optional encrypted password, your own domain with Founding, and analytics on who opened it and for how long. Your first 5 pages are free.
Public is a choice — make it deliberately.
Noindex by default, password optional, tracked always. Your first 5 pages are free.