Claude, Gemini, Netlify Drop, Tiiny Host, Vercel, GitHub Pages and Drive, side by side with FileShare Pro. Not on how fast the link appears, which every one of them does in a minute, but on what the person you send it to can do once they open it.
Checked against each vendor’s documentation on September 8, 2026. Sources at the bottom.
| What you can do | FileShare Pro Host a page, review it like a doc | Claude Publish Artifacts on claude.ai | Gemini share Canvas apps on gemini.google.com | Netlify Drop Drag-and-drop deploy for developers | Tiiny Host Drag-and-drop static host | Vercel Front-end platform | GitHub Pages Static hosting from a repository | Google Drive / Dropbox File storage |
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One HTML file to a link From a file on disk to a URL you can text someone. Steps, and whether an account is needed first. | Yes. Drag the file. Free account, no card. | Yes. Publish button. Not available on Team or Enterprise plans. | Partly. Share, copy link. Opens on gemini.google.com only, not the mobile app. | Partly. Drag a folder. Claim it within an hour or the site is deleted a week later. | Yes. Drag the file. Free account. | Partly. Vercel Drop needs an account and makes a new project every time. | No. Create a repo, enable Pages, wait up to 10 minutes. 11 steps. | No. Shares the file. The recipient sees source code or a download. |
Opens without an account Can the person you send it to open it with nothing but the link? | Yes. Yes, any phone or browser. | Partly. Yes. AI-powered artifacts ask viewers to sign in. | Partly. Anyone with the link, per Google. Sign-in requirement not documented. | Yes. Yes, once claimed. | Yes. Yes. | Yes. Yes for production. Protected previews need a Vercel login. | Yes. Yes. | Partly. As a file, yes. |
Comments on the page Can a visitor leave a note on the live page, pinned to what they mean, without creating an account? | Yes. Yes. Pinned to the element, name only. Held for your approval, or shown right away if you choose. | No. No. Claude Code artifacts: same-organization only. | No. No. | No. No. | Partly. Feedback mode from $9/mo. Whether commenters need an account is not documented. | Partly. Yes, but everyone who comments needs a Vercel account. | No. No. | Partly. On the file listing, not on a rendered page. |
Suggested edits Can a visitor propose a change you approve or reject, the way a doc works? | Yes. Yes. Held until you approve. | No. No. Viewers can copy the code to their own chat. | No. No. Viewers can change the app’s data, not its code. | No. No. | No. No. | No. No. | Partly. Pull requests, for people who know Git. | No. No. |
Update, keep the link Replace the file and everyone who already has the link sees the new one. | Yes. Yes, with version history. | Partly. Not documented for claude.ai. Claude Code artifacts republish to the same URL. | Partly. Shared chats are snapshots. Not documented for apps. | Yes. Yes. Drop the new folder on the site’s Deploys page. | Yes. Yes. | Partly. Git projects yes. Drop creates a new project per drop. | Yes. Yes, commit the change. | Yes. Yes, same file. |
Password and no-index Keep a draft out of search and behind a password. | Yes. Yes, on Basic (free during beta). Everything is no-index by default. | No. No password. Public artifacts have been indexed by Google. | No. No. | Partly. Password on Pro, $20/mo. | Partly. Password on Solo, $18/mo. | Partly. Previews are no-index. Password needs Pro, advanced protection $150/mo. | No. No. Private sites need Enterprise Cloud. | Partly. Link controls, no password. |
Forms and polls, no backend A form on the page collects answers somewhere you can read them. | Yes. Yes. Responses land in your dashboard. | No. No storage for responses. | No. No. | Yes. Yes, Netlify Forms. | No. Not documented. | No. No, bring a backend. | No. No. | No. No. |
Free tier What you get before paying. | Yes. 3 links, 100 MB. Basic free during beta. | Yes. Publishing works on the free plan. | Yes. Free. | Partly. $0 with 300 credits. Sites pause when the credits run out. | Partly. 1 project, 3 MB, 5,000 visits a month. | Partly. Hobby, personal and non-commercial use only. | Yes. Free for public repositories. | Yes. 15 GB (Drive), 2 GB (Dropbox). |
Paid from The first paid plan that changes the answer above. | Yes. $5/mo Basic, $10/mo Pro. | Not applicable. Pro is $20/mo for Claude, not for hosting. | Not applicable. Not a hosting product. | Yes. $9/mo Personal, $20/mo Pro. | Yes. $9/mo Tiny, $18/mo Solo. | Yes. $20 per seat per month. | Yes. $4/mo for private repositories. | Not applicable. Not a hosting product. |
Custom domain yourname.com in front of the page. | Partly. In development. | No. No. | No. No. | Yes. Yes, all plans. | Partly. On Solo, up to 5. | Yes. Yes. | Yes. Yes. | No. No. |
A public link with nothing on the other side of it: viewers can look, but not reply.
Pick it if you only need someone to see it once, and you are on a personal plan.
Full comparison: How to share a Claude artifact with anyone →A share link exists, but the page lives inside Gemini and nobody can comment on it.
Pick it if the person you are sending it to is already in Gemini and just needs to try it.
The fastest deploy in the business, aimed at people who will keep deploying.
Pick it if this is a real site with a build step in its future.
Full comparison: vs. Netlify for sharing a page →The closest neighbour. Same first minute, then feedback costs $9 a month and the free file limit is 3 MB.
Pick it if you want to pick your own subdomain and pay for feedback mode.
Full comparison: vs. Tiiny Host for hosting an HTML file →Has real commenting, and every person who wants to comment needs a Vercel account.
Pick it if your reviewers are developers on your Vercel team.
Eleven steps and a repository for a file that took forty seconds to make.
Pick it if the page is open source and you already live in Git.
Full comparison: vs. GitHub Pages for a single HTML file →They store the file. Neither has rendered an HTML page since 2017.
Pick it if you want the recipient to download the file, not open it.
Full comparison: vs. Google Drive for sharing websites →Built for the minute after the link exists: comments, suggestions and versions on the page itself.
Pick it if the page is going to someone who has an opinion about it. It also connects to ChatGPT and Claude, so the page can be published from the chat that wrote it, and updated there too. How connecting works →
Every AI tool that can write a page now has some way to show it to someone. None of them has a way to hear back. Claude’s Publish makes a public link that viewers can open and use, and that is the end of it: no comments, no edits, and on Team and Enterprise plans no public publishing at all. Gemini’s share link opens the app on gemini.google.com, not on a phone’s Gemini app, and viewers can use it but not annotate it. ChatGPT retired Canvas in 2026 and never hosted a page.
That is fine when the page is finished. It is not fine when the page is a draft, which is what most AI output is. The point of sending it is the reply, and the reply currently arrives as a screenshot in a text message. Hosting the same file somewhere the comments can live on the page is the whole difference between these tools and this one.
Not on claude.ai. A published artifact is a public link that viewers can open and interact with, but there is no comment or edit feature; the only action is copying the code into their own chat. Claude Code artifacts do have comments, and only for people in the same Team or Enterprise organization. Host the same HTML on FileShare Pro and anyone with the link can comment after typing a name.
Yes. Gemini Canvas has Share and export, then Copy link, and anyone with the link can open the app on gemini.google.com. They cannot comment on it, it does not open in the Gemini mobile app, and there is no password option. For a link that opens anywhere and collects feedback, download the HTML and host it.
OpenAI retired Canvas from its current models in May 2026 and ended legacy access in August 2026. ChatGPT can still write a complete HTML file; it has no way to host one. Save the file and drop it on FileShare Pro, or connect FileShare Pro to ChatGPT so it can publish directly.
No. They are platforms for building and deploying front ends, with build pipelines, serverless functions and teams. FileShare Pro is for the single page that already exists: host it, share it, get comments on it. If your page will grow into a site with a build step, start on one of them.
It was built for the same first minute: drag an HTML file, get a link. The free plan allows one 3 MB project, and its feedback mode starts at $9 a month. FileShare Pro’s free plan allows 5 MB files and three links with comments and suggested edits included; password links come with Basic, which is free during the beta.
Drop the file, send the link, read the replies on the page. Free plan, no card.
Start sharing freePrices and limits are as published by each vendor on September 8, 2026 and change without notice. Something out of date? Tell us.