Comparison

Markest vs Claude artifacts

The whole deliverable, from any assistant, behind one link.

Claude artifacts are pages, documents, slides and designs that Claude makes, shared from the conversation or Claude Code session that made them; an artifact published from Claude Code is one self-contained page. Markest publishes the whole deliverable, markdown, code, sandboxed HTML and images in folders, from Claude or any other assistant, behind one link that can expire or ask for a password.

Checked on 26 September 2026 against Claude artifacts's own pages.

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Side by side

Markest and Claude artifacts, feature by feature
Feature	Markest	Claude artifacts
Several documents behind one link	Markest Yes Markdown, HTML, code and images in folders, linked to one another	Claude artifacts Partly One page each, apart from drafts spread over several markdown files, such as a skill ^[1]
Markdown shown as a page	Markest Yes	Claude artifacts Yes A published markdown file is shown as a styled page ^[2]
HTML pages that run	Markest Yes On a sandboxed origin that cannot reach the reader's account here, up to 1 MB a page	Claude artifacts Yes On a sandboxed origin ^[2]
Source files with syntax highlighting	Markest Yes	Claude artifacts Partly Highlighted inside a markdown page; a page published from Claude Code must be HTML or markdown ^[2]
Private, shared by link	Markest Yes Signed links that stop working when the time you give them runs out, or all at once when you revoke themOn the free plan	Claude artifacts Yes On paid plans; the people you invite, or your organisation, sign in to Claude to open it ^[3]
Password	Markest Yes On the free plan	Claude artifacts No Open to only you, the people you invite, your organisation or anyone with the link; a password is not among the options ^[3]
Expiry or burn-after-reading	Markest Yes On the free plan	Claude artifacts Partly Only an organisation-wide retention period, set by an admin on Team and Enterprise plans ^[2]
End-to-end encryption	Markest Yes Chosen when you make an artifact: it is encrypted in your browser, and its key is only in its linkOn Pro and above	Claude artifacts No A published page is uploaded to Anthropic's servers to be hosted ^[2]
Version history	Markest Yes When you turn it on: restore a whole artifact or one document	Claude artifacts Partly Each publish from Claude Code is kept as a version; Claude Docs have no version history yet ^[2]
Explore, profiles and following	Markest Yes Explore, profiles, following, stars and comments	Claude artifacts Not stated Shared with the people you choose or by link; no public directory, profiles or following are described ^[3]
Agents publish over MCP	Markest Yes 34 tools, from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or any MCP clientOn the free plan	Claude artifacts Partly Only Claude publishes them, from a session signed in to a Claude account ^[2]
A free plan	Markest Yes 1000 artifacts and 200 MB of storage	Claude artifacts Partly The Free plan makes artifacts but cannot share new ones ^[3]
Your own domain	Markest No	Claude artifacts No Viewed at claude.ai addresses ^[2]
Live co-editing	Markest Partly People in a workspace edit its artifacts and see who else has one open; changes are merged when saved, not liveOn Business and above	Claude artifacts Partly Live co-editing in Claude Docs, a beta on paid plans ^[4]
Reader analytics	Markest Partly How many times each artifact was opened, day by day; not who opened itOn the free plan	Claude artifacts Not stated Shows who else in your organisation has an artifact open; reader analytics are not described ^[5]
Price	Markest £5.00 a month (Pro)	Claude artifacts In every Claude plan, Free included; Pro is $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly, before tax ^[6]

Partly means a limited form, a paid add-on or a workaround; the note says which. Not stated means we could not find it on the product's own pages.

Where Claude artifacts leads

Nothing to set up when you already work in Claude: a page is shared from the conversation or Claude Code session that made it.
Comments can be sent to Claude, which replies in the thread and makes the change, in Claude Docs and in pages shared inside a Team or Enterprise organisation.
Pages that read and write live data through each viewer's own connected apps, and documents, slides and designs as kinds of artifact of their own, on paid plans.
Live co-editing in Claude Docs: people with edit access write in the same document at once, beside Claude.

Where Markest leads

The whole deliverable in one artifact: many documents, source files and images in folders, linked to one another, with a sidebar.
Decide how long each artifact can be read, with its own expiry time or burn-after-reading, and lock it with a password.
Publish from any assistant, script or editor, not only from Claude.
Publish and share on a free plan.
Encrypt an artifact in your browser when you make it: its key is only in the link you share, so not even Markest can read it.

Which to choose

Choose Claude artifacts if…

You work in Claude and want to share the page it made from the same place.
You want comments answered by Claude, or a page that reads live data from each viewer's apps.
You want to write a document with other people at the same time.

Choose Markest if…

Your deliverable is more than one page: a report with its appendix, sources and images.
You need a link that stops working after a time you choose, or a password.
You use more than one assistant, or publish from scripts.
You want to share what you make without paying for a plan.

What Markest does not do yet

Other products offer these, and Markest does not today:

Your own domain

Sources

Every fact about Claude artifacts on this page comes from its own pages, read on 26 September 2026. Prices are as the vendor lists them, in its own currency.

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