Definition
What are Claude artifacts?
Claude artifacts are the live, interactive files Claude builds in a preview window beside your chat — web pages, small apps, documents, dashboards, and decks you can actually click and use, not just read about.
When you ask Claude to build something substantial — a proposal, a calculator, a report — it opens an artifact instead of dumping code into the conversation. The artifact renders the result so you can see it working, and it updates as you keep iterating in the chat.
Artifacts are where most AI-built pages start. The next question is always the same: how do you get one out of Claude and in front of someone else? This guide covers what artifacts are, what people build with them, and how to publish one as a real link.
Examples
Examples of artifacts
Anything Claude can express as HTML can be an artifact. These are the kinds people build for real work.
Client proposals
A scrolling, interactive proposal with live pricing tables — built from a plain-language brief.
Calculators & tools
ROI calculators, quote builders, and small single-purpose apps that run right in the browser.
Dashboards & reports
Charts, tables, and status views Claude assembles from the numbers you paste in.
Pitch decks
Web-native slides with animation and responsive layout — no PowerPoint export step.
Product demos
Clickable mockups and walkthroughs you can put in front of a client the same day.
Documents & one-pagers
Formatted briefs, spec sheets, and summaries that look designed, not typed.
The difference
Artifacts vs. normal Claude responses
A normal response is text in the conversation. An artifact is a rendered, interactive window — the difference between reading about a calculator and using one.
Inside Claude vs. online
An artifact vs. a hosted page
An artifact lives inside Claude — great for building, useless for sending. The moment you want a client, investor, or colleague to open it (especially one who doesn’t use Claude), it needs to become a real hosted page with its own link.
Artifact in Claude
The artifact lives inside your Claude chat — perfect for building and iterating, but your client can’t see your chat.
Published as a link
Publishing turns the artifact into a real hosted page with its own URL — say “publish this” in Claude, or upload the HTML.
Opens for anyone
Your recipient opens it in any browser — no Claude account, no app, no login (unless you add a password).
One thing worth knowing before you publish: the easy free ways to put an AI-built page online usually make it a public web page that search engines can index. If the artifact is client work, a private, noindex link is the safer default — that’s the way Pagelive publishes.
Publishing
How to share or publish an artifact
There are three honest routes: Claude’s own Publish button (quick, but the page is public and unbranded), publishing straight from the chat with the Pagelive connector — just say “publish this” — or copying the artifact’s HTML and uploading it yourself.
Whichever route you take, it helps to preview the HTML first so you know it renders outside Claude.
Frequently asked
Are Claude artifacts public? +
Inside the chat, an artifact is part of your conversation. Claude’s own Publish button turns it into a public page on claude.ai that anyone with the link can open. If the artifact is client or confidential work, publish it with a tool built for that instead — Pagelive links are noindex by default (they won’t show up on Google) and can be password-protected.
Can others see my artifact without a Claude account? +
Not while it lives in your chat. Once published — natively or via Pagelive — it becomes a normal web page that opens in any browser. A Pagelive link never asks your viewer for a Claude account or any login, unless you add a password.
Are artifacts saved? +
Artifacts stay attached to the conversation that created them, so they’re there when you reopen the chat. For a stable copy that lives outside Claude — one you can send, track, and update — publish it as a hosted link.
Can I edit an artifact after I’ve shared it? +
In Claude, you keep iterating in the chat and the artifact updates. If you published it as a Pagelive link, republish the new version and the link stays the same — version history keeps your previous edits.
Turn your artifact into a real link.
Private by default, password-protectable, and tracked — your first pages are free.