How Do You Share a Claude Artifact With Other People?
Open the artifact, click Share, choose who can access it, and copy the link. Artifacts start private. The Publish button you may remember belongs to older chat artifacts, and on current ones Share is the control to use.
Before I share this artifact outside my team, review it and tell me: 1. Does it contain any private data, names, prices or internal notes? List each one. 2. Does it use shared storage, so that one viewer could see what another typed? 3. Does it use Claude or connected apps, and what will a signed-out viewer see instead? 4. What should I change first? Intended audience: [who] What they should be able to do: [view / comment / edit]
- Only you
- Anyone with the link
- Invite by email (beta)
- Only people invited
- Anyone at your organization
- Anyone with the link, if an Owner allows it
- Can viewopen it, read comments
- Commenterplus comments and downloads
- Can editplus make changes
Try it now
- 1Open an artifact on the web or in Claude Desktop, and click Share.
- 2Choose the narrowest option that works, and set Can view unless they need more.
- 3Copy the link and open it in a private browser window, signed out.
- 4You'll know it worked if the page does what your viewer needs. To stop sharing, set access back to Only you on Pro, Max or Ultra, or Only people invited on Team or Enterprise.
Use it when
Share a working calculator with a client, send a team a live checklist, or give a colleague a doc they can edit. It suits anything simpler to open as a link than to explain in an email.
Skip it when
Don't use link sharing for anything confidential, or for something customers depend on. Nothing on the pages read promises uptime for a shared artifact. Check for shared storage first too, since anyone who opens the artifact can see what's stored there. On a phone, you can't change sharing settings, so wait for the web or Claude Desktop.
Why it works
Anthropic's help center sets access levels of Can view, Commenter and Can edit. "Anyone with the link" usually opens without a Claude account, except docs, which require sign-in and are view-only. For artifacts that use Claude or connected apps, each viewer brings their own: their own plan's usage and their own app access. If a viewer can't reach a data source, that part shows an error. So a shared artifact doesn't spend your limits or lend out your Slack access.
Example
You built a project-cost estimator and want a client to try it before a call on Thursday. You're on Pro, so you run the review prompt, remove an internal margin note, and choose Anyone with the link at Can view. You open it signed out to see what the client will see, since Claude features won't work for them.
Going further
Three traps. On Pro, Max and Ultra, switching back to Only you doesn't remove people you invited by email, so remove them individually too. Email invitations (beta) aren't on Free, pending invites expire after 30 days, and there's a limit of 50 outside invitees per artifact. For older chat artifacts, Publish creates a public link and Get embed code lets you list allowed domains, but Unpublish permanently deletes stored data and you can't republish the same artifact. On Team and Enterprise, viewers of an older shared artifact can also access the chat's attachments and files.
Common mistakes
- Looking for Publish on a new artifact. Use Share.
- Assuming "Anyone with the link" means private because the link is hard to guess. Anyone who gets the link can open it.
- Testing only while signed in, then finding your client can't use the Claude-powered part.
- Clicking Unpublish on an older artifact to make a quick fix, and losing its stored data for good.
Sources
Checked 6 November 2026. Products change often, so confirm details with the vendor.