# Who can open a shared Claude artifact

Claude’s sharing options by plan, who needs a Claude account, and how to send an artifact to a client who doesn’t have one.

By artifact.guru team. Published 2026-10-05, updated 2026-10-05.

**Short answer:** Claude artifacts start private to you. On Pro and Max you can share with “Anyone with the link” or invite people by email; on Team and Enterprise you can also share with your organization. Either way, everyone who opens it needs a Claude account, unless it’s a legacy artifact published from a chat. To send one to a client without Claude, publish it to artifact.guru and invite their email address. They sign in with a one-time code and need no password or plan.

## The short answer, in three parts

The answer depends on whether you’ve shared it, and with whom.

- **Before you share:** yes. Every artifact starts private to the person who made it.
- **After you share:** it opens for the people your setting allows, and each of them needs a Claude account. “Anyone with the link” means anyone with the link and a Claude account.
- **For someone without Claude:** a shared artifact doesn’t open, even with the link. The one exception is a legacy artifact published from a chat.

## What a client without Claude can open

The booking app below was made for a climbing gym and shared with the gym by **Email**. Book a session, then cancel it from Bookings.

Sample app prototype: [Overhang booking app](https://artifact.guru/examples/overhang-app-prototype). Every screen is clickable, right through to checkout.

Nothing in it needs Claude. It’s a web page that runs in any browser.

## Claude’s sharing options by plan

As Claude’s help center described them on October 5, 2026:

| Plan | Who you can share with | Does the viewer need a Claude account? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro and Max | “Only you” or “Anyone with the link”. To reach specific people, invite them by email. | Yes |
| Team and Enterprise | “Only people invited”, “Anyone at [organization]” or “Anyone with the link”. The last works only when an Owner has turned on External sharing, or has allowed that one artifact. | Yes |
| Email invitations (beta) on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise | Up to 50 outside people per artifact, each as Can view, Commenter or Can edit | Yes, under the invited address |
| A legacy artifact published from a chat (Free, Pro and Max) | Anyone who has the public link | No. They’re asked to sign up only for features that use Claude |

Some artifacts can’t be shared every way:

- **Not by link:** artifacts that connect to your apps or use Claude, and on Team and Enterprise, docs.
- **Not by email:** Claude Docs documents, artifacts that connect to other websites, and artifacts with an uploaded file still being checked.
- **For invitees:** the parts that use Claude or your connectors don’t work.

> **Sharing from a chat.** On Team and Enterprise, people you share a chat’s artifact with also get the attachments and files in that chat. Check what’s in the conversation before you share.

## Legacy artifacts and new ones

Artifacts made in a chat before September 16, 2026 are legacy artifacts. You can tell by the button: they show **Publish** or **Share & copy link** where newer ones show **Share**.

On Free, Pro or Max, publishing a legacy artifact gives you a public link. Anyone can view and use it without a Claude account, and is asked to sign up only for features that use Claude. You also get an embed code, with a list of the domains allowed to embed it.

> **Unpublishing is final.** The help center says you can’t publish an artifact again after you unpublish it, and that unpublishing deletes the artifact’s stored data.

## Email invitations and their limits

You can also invite specific people by email in Claude, with these conditions:

- They’re in beta, on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise.
- Each person gets one of three access levels: **Can view**, **Commenter** or **Can edit**.
- Up to 50 outside people per artifact.
- Pending invitations expire after 30 days.
- The invitee needs a Claude account under the invited address.

Claude doesn’t tell you whether the person you invited has an account, and its help center doesn’t describe a way to see who opened the artifact.

## Team and Enterprise: sharing outside the organization

- **Inside the organization:** “Anyone at [organization]” opens it for your colleagues.
- **A link for anyone:** works only when an Owner has turned on External sharing, or has allowed that one artifact. Viewers still need a Claude account.
- **Invitations outside the organization:** on by default on Team plans, off by default on Enterprise.

On Enterprise, if you can’t invite a client, ask an Owner whether outside invitations are on.

## What the help center doesn’t describe

Three things client work often needs aren’t on Claude’s sharing page:

| You want | Claude’s help center | artifact.guru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| To know who opened it | Not described | **Views** counts opens and visitors on every link for the last 30 days, and names people on Private and Email links |
| Your own domain | Not described | Public and Secret code links open on your subdomain, such as `docs.yourstudio.com` |
| Earlier versions | Not described | Every publish or edit is a version at the same link, and **Roll back** brings an old one back |

## When Claude’s own sharing is the right choice

Stay in Claude when everyone already has it, or when you need something artifact.guru doesn’t do. Claude’s invitations offer **Commenter** and **Can edit**; artifact.guru has no comments and no co-editing. And if the artifact uses Claude itself, that part runs only in Claude. There, each person signs in with their own Claude account and the usage counts against their plan. The sharing limits above still apply.

| Situation | Use |
| --- | --- |
| Everyone who needs it is in your Claude organization | Claude: “Anyone at [organization]” |
| They have Claude, and you want their comments or edits | Claude: an email invitation as Commenter or Can edit |
| The artifact calls Claude or your connectors | Claude: those parts run only there |
| A client without a Claude account, by name | artifact.guru: **Email**, and their name shows in **Views** |
| A board or a client team, without accounts | artifact.guru: **Secret code**, lasting 7 or 30 days, or with no expiry |
| Anyone at all, at your own address | artifact.guru: **Public**, on a [custom domain](https://artifact.guru/docs/domains) |

## Publish it for people without a Claude account

artifact.guru gives the artifact its own link that opens in any browser. You choose who can open it.

1. **On Team or Enterprise, ask an Owner first** Only Owners and Primary Owners can add a custom connector there (on Enterprise, also people with a custom role that includes “Manage access to Libraries”). On Pro, Max and Free, skip this step.
2. **Add the connector, or connect to it** In Claude, open **Settings → Connectors**, choose **Add custom connector**, name it artifact.guru and paste the address. Free allows one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise, connect to the one your Owner added.

   `https://mcp.artifact.guru/mcp`
3. **Approve** Your browser opens. Sign in to artifact.guru, tick the workspaces Claude may use and approve.
4. **Ask Claude** In the chat with the artifact, say: “publish this artifact to artifact.guru and invite ana@client.com”. Claude sends the artifact’s source and replies with the link, set to **Email** for that address.
5. **Send the link yourself** artifact.guru doesn’t email Ana an invitation. Paste the link into your own email or chat.

You need a Individual plan ($12 a month) or a Team plan. Ana needs no plan and no password.

> **What travels this way.** The connector carries text, such as pages, React components and Markdown. A PowerPoint, Word file or PDF has to be exported and uploaded instead; [How to export a Claude artifact](https://artifact.guru/blog/export-claude-artifact) shows how.

## What the client sees

1. **She taps the link on her phone** A card says **Sign in to open**, because it was shared with specific people. She signs in with the address it was sent to.
2. **She gets a one-time code** She types ana@client.com and a code arrives by email. If she’s new, she creates an account in the same step, with no password.
3. **The app opens** It runs under a slim bar with the title, **Copy link** and **Download**. To show it full screen instead, switch off **Show controls**.

Someone signed in with a different address sees **You don’t have access**. **Views** lists Ana as “Not opened yet” until she opens it, and by name after that. For a group without accounts, a **Secret code** works better. They type the code and the page opens. See [Choose who can open your link](https://artifact.guru/blog/choose-who-can-open).

## Limits

- No comments and no co-editing. Changes come from you or your agent, as new versions at the same link.
- No invitation emails and no alerts when someone opens a link. You send the link and check **Views** in the app.
- No server behind the page. Forms store nothing, and what a page saves resets when it reloads.
- One HTML page or React component can be up to 5 MB, and each artifact can have up to 50 invited addresses.

## Questions

### Can someone without a Claude account open a shared Claude artifact?

Only a legacy artifact you published from a chat. Every other way of sharing needs a Claude account. To reach someone without one, publish it to artifact.guru.

### Is “Anyone with the link” public?

Not quite. It opens for anyone with the link and a Claude account. On Team and Enterprise, it also needs an Owner to allow external sharing.

### Does my client need an artifact.guru plan?

No. Invited people sign in with a one-time code. Secret code and Public links need no account at all.

### Can I see whether my client opened it?

On artifact.guru, yes. Invited people show by name in Views. Claude’s help center doesn’t describe view tracking.

## Checked

What this article says about other products was checked against their own documentation on 2026-10-05.

- [Claude Help Center: Share artifacts](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9547008-publish-and-share-artifacts)
- [Claude Help Center: What are artifacts and how do I use them?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9487310-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them)
- [Claude Help Center: Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp)

Source: https://artifact.guru/blog/who-can-open-claude-artifact