The best way to host a Claude artifact for people outside Claude is Hostus: drop the HTML or publish it from Claude through the connector, and you get a link anyone can open, that keeps working through every edit, with an email gate, reading by section and forms that reach you, free for 20 documents. If you are on a paid Claude plan and the page is a plain artifact, with no doc, no saved data and no form the reader must see, Claude's own link is enough and needs no export.
Between those two sit five other options, each good at one thing. This page compares all seven on the questions that decide it, with facts read on each vendor's site on 2 November 2026, and Anthropic's pages reread on 7 November 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a fact, the table says so.
Four questions that decide it
- Can Claude's own link do it? Anthropic's sharing article says most artifacts shared with "Anyone with the link" open without a Claude account. Not if you are on Free, which has no such link; not for a doc, which needs sign-in; not if the page shows data it saved, which signed-out readers can't see; and on Team or Enterprise only with External sharing on. If any of those applies, any host below works.
- Do you need to know who read it, and what? Hostus and Pagelive report reading by section; Stacktree reports attention on its Studio plan; the rest stop at view counts or nothing.
- Does the page have a form? On Hostus any form with named fields stores responses. Elsewhere you wire a form service or lose the data.
- Must it be on your own domain? Then pick Pagelive, Stacktree, ShareDuo Plus or Netlify. Hostus has no custom domains.
The seven options, side by side
| Option | Free plan | Paid from | Reader needs an account | Gate | Reading analytics | Forms reach you | Own domain | Claude connector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | 20 docs, 2 MB, 100 form responses a month, no clock | $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year | No | Email gate (list or domain) or invite-only | By section, per reader on gated pages | Yes, any form | No | Yes, MCP with OAuth |
| Claude's own sharing | No share link for new artifacts; Publish for legacy ones | Your Claude plan | Not for most artifacts on Pro, Max and Ultra. Yes for docs, some dashboards and saved data. No link at all on Free; Team needs External sharing | Organization, email invitation or link; no password | Not in the help article | No | No | Built in |
| Pagelive | 2 public pages | $15 a month or $150 a year, after a 10-day trial | Not stated | Password or verified email | Opened, time, sections read, by whom | "Reply forms" listed | Your subdomain, by CNAME | Yes, MCP |
| Stacktree | 3-page trial with a badge | $19 a month (Solo) | No | Passcode, magic link, email domain on paid plans | Opens and readers; attention on Studio ($79) | Not documented | 1 on Solo, 10 on Studio | Yes, MCP |
| ShareDuo | Links that expire in 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days | $4.99 a month (Plus) | No | Password | View analytics | Not mentioned | On Plus | Yes, MCP with OAuth |
| Tiiny.host | Check their site | Check their site | No | On paid plans | On paid plans | Check their site | On paid plans | Not listed |
| Netlify Drop | Netlify's free plan | Check their site | No | No | No built-in reading data | Netlify Forms, once configured | Yes | No |
Read on each vendor's own pages on 2 November 2026, Claude's row on 7 November 2026; the Tiiny.host pricing page did not load for us, so its numbers are left to their site.
Each option, and who should pick it
1. Hostus
Best if someone outside your Claude organization will open the page and you need it to work fully and report back. It works on the free plan, no page type asks the reader to sign in, and forms and saved data work for anonymous readers. Drop the file on hostus.io, or add the connector to Claude and say "publish this to Hostus". The link, your-slug.hostus.page, never changes: Claude updates the page through the connector, and the History tab keeps the last 20 versions to compare or restore. Set it public, email-gated to a list or a domain, or invite-only. You see who opened it and how long they spent on each section. Any form in the page stores its responses and emails them to you. Readers can ask the document a question and get an answer from its own text, or reply on one section. A page can even keep shared data, like an RSVP list, with the hostus.data SDK and no backend. Free for 20 documents and 2 MB; $9.99 a month after that.
2. Claude's own sharing
Pick it if you are on a paid plan, the page is a plain artifact (not a doc, with no saved data or form the reader must see), and on Team, External sharing is on. There is nothing to export, invited people can comment or edit if you allow it, and artifacts can store up to 20 MB of text. Most link-shared artifacts open without an account. The catches are in Anthropic's help center: Free has no share link for new artifacts, docs open only for people signed in, saved data is hidden from signed-out readers and read-only for outsiders, and link-only viewers can't see or add comments. Legacy artifacts published from a chat before 16 September 2026, and Claude Code artifacts shared publicly, open without an account.
3. Pagelive
Pick it if your proposals and reports must sit on your own subdomain. It publishes AI-made proposals, reports and decks as private links, with a password or a verified email, analytics down to sections read and by whom, reply forms, and publishing from Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Free for 2 public pages, then $15 a month or $150 a year after a 10-day trial.
4. Stacktree
Pick it if you want private hosting built around agents, on your domain. Long unguessable links, passcodes, one-time magic links and email-domain gates with verification on the paid plans, viewer notes pinned to page elements, and an MCP server. The free trial is 3 pages with a badge that last 7 days, or 30 days after the last open; Solo is $19 a month with one custom domain.
5. ShareDuo
Pick it if the link should disappear on its own. Free links expire after 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days, with an optional password and view counts, and no account to upload. Plus, at $4.99 a month, adds permanent links, custom domains and Google Analytics. Its site says artifacts that call Claude's API while running won't work there. Compared in detail in ShareDuo alternatives.
6. Tiiny.host
Pick it if you want a general drag-and-drop static host with a dashboard. It predates the AI hosts and handles more file types; password protection, analytics and custom domains are on paid plans. See Tiiny.host vs Netlify Drop for the head-to-head.
7. Netlify Drop
Pick it if you are a developer who wants your own domain and a build pipeline later. Drag a folder and it goes live with "no account required"; signed in, Netlify runs your build. There is no gate and no reading data, and a form needs Netlify Forms set up.
How to move an artifact to a host
- Copy or download the HTML from the controls at the top of the artifact panel, or ask Claude for one self-contained HTML file.
- Drop it on the host. On Hostus, either drop it on hostus.io or let Claude publish it through the connector.
- Choose who can open it, then test the link in a private window before you send it.
The full walk-through is in how to share a Claude artifact with anyone; if a Claude link is already failing, start with why a Claude artifact link won't open.
Good to know before you switch
Hostus has no custom domain: every page lives at your-slug.hostus.page and carries a small "Published with Hostus" badge in the corner, on the free and the paid plan. Public pages are noindex, so they do not show up in Google. It hosts HTML files with their images, video and fonts, not PDFs or framework builds, so ask Claude for one self-contained HTML file. The free plan is 20 documents, 2 MB in total and 100 form responses a month (responses past that are kept and unlocked on a paid plan); paid is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. An email gate identifies readers, it does not verify the address: for a page that must stay between you and named people, use invite-only.