Publish the site AI made for you.

To publish a website you made with AI, start with what you have. Code pasted from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini goes in a file named index.html, which you drag onto a free static host such as Netlify, Cloudflare Pages or GitHub Pages. A site made in an AI builder like Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit has a Publish button. A project folder from a coding agent gets built, then uploaded.

Every path has a free option. Your own domain is the part you pay for, and some builders connect one only on a paid plan. Below: each path step by step, and the checks to run before you share the link.

01Where did your site come from?

The right way to publish depends on what the AI gave you. Find your row, then jump to its section.

If your project needs a server or a database, a static host is not enough. Our guide on where to deploy your app sorts hosts by what your app needs to run.

02ChatGPT gave me HTML. How do I put it online?

Save the code as a file named index.html, check that it opens in your browser, then drag its folder onto a free static host. A static host is a service that sends your files to visitors exactly as they are, with no server code of your own.

1. 01

   Save the code as index.html

   Copy the whole code block, from <!doctype html> to </html>. Paste it into a plain-text editor (Notepad, TextEdit in plain-text mode, or VS Code) and save it as index.html in a new, empty folder. If the chat also gave you a CSS or JavaScript file, save it in the same folder under the exact name the HTML uses.

2. 02

   Check it on your computer

   Double-click index.html to open it in your browser. If parts load other files and stay blank, serve the folder instead, which behaves more like a real host. With Python installed, run this in the folder:

   python3 -m http.server 8000

   Serving HTTP on :: port 8000 (http://[::]:8000/) ...

   Then open http://localhost:8000. In our test, a single-page site served this way returned the page with status 200, and a missing about.html returned 404, which is exactly how a live host behaves. Press Ctrl+C to stop.

3. 03

   Upload the folder to a free host

   Pick one of the three hosts in the table below. Netlify Drop is the only one that works without signing up first.

4. 04

   Open the live address on your phone

   Tap every link and button on the real address before anyone else does. Small screens break layouts that looked fine on a laptop.

Checked on September 28, 2026, in each host’s documentation:

All three let you connect your own domain for free. Before you launch anything commercial, read the free plan’s fine print, which where to deploy your app compares host by host.

03Can I publish straight from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?

Yes, but you get different things. ChatGPT Sites publishes a real website that can use your own domain, while Claude and Gemini give you a public link to a page or app that stays on their domain.

Checked on September 28, 2026:

In Claude, unpublishing is final: Anthropic says you cannot publish the same artifact again. If you export an AI Studio app, Google says you must set your GEMINI_API_KEY in the new host. Keep that key on a server, because anything built into browser code is public, as our guide to keeping API keys safe explains.

A share link is fine for showing a friend. For a site with your own name on it, copy the code out and follow the steps above, or see our ChatGPT Sites alternatives if Sites is not available to you.

04I built it in Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit. How do I publish it?

Press the builder’s Publish button. Each one hosts the site for you on an address on its own domain, and each connects your own domain from its publish or project settings.

Checked on September 28, 2026:

Lovable and Replit put a security check in their publish flow, and Bolt offers one in its Publish menu on paid plans. Read the results rather than clicking past them, since a builder app with a database can expose its data if the access rules are wrong. Our guide to Supabase row level security explains the most common case.

Moving to another host later depends on whether the builder lets you take the code, which our guide on exporting your site from AI builders checks for each one.

05I have a project folder from a coding agent. What now?

Ask the agent for a production build, then publish the folder it creates. For most sites that folder is called dist, build or out, and it holds plain files you can drag onto any host from the table above.

You can also deploy from the terminal. Cloudflare’s command takes the folder and a project name (we checked it against the help output of Wrangler 4.125.0):

npx wrangler pages deploy dist --project-name my-site

Netlify’s equivalent is netlify deploy --prod. Both ask you to log in the first time, so run them yourself or let your agent run them while you watch.

Some tools publish as part of the build. ChatGPT Sites can be created from Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app. Cyborb, a desktop AI agent from Orbioom, is our product: its /publish skill puts a finished site on a cyborb.app address with hosting included. Its Free plan covers 3 published sites, and custom domains need Pro.

If the folder contains server code, such as API routes or a database connection, a static host cannot run it. Ask the agent which kind of hosting it needs before you pick one.

06How do I put it on my own domain?

Buy the domain from a registrar, add it in your host’s domain settings, then create the DNS records the host shows you. Most changes take effect within minutes to a few hours, and the host issues the HTTPS certificate once the records point at it.

Two quirks are worth knowing. Cloudflare Pages needs your domain’s DNS on Cloudflare for a bare domain like example.com, though a subdomain like www.example.com can point there with a CNAME record from any DNS provider. And ChatGPT Sites connects a domain you already own but does not sell one, while Lovable, Bolt and Replit can sell you one inside the builder.

Our step-by-step guide to connecting a custom domain explains every record type, and how to put a website online covers what a domain really costs.

07What should I check before I share the link?

Check four things AI-made sites often get wrong: exposed API keys, forms that go nowhere, missing privacy notes and invented content. Each takes a few minutes, and each is harder to fix once people are using the site.

Start with keys. A key pasted into a page is readable by every visitor. Search the folder you are about to publish:

grep -rnoE "sk-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}|sk_live_[A-Za-z0-9]+|AIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{35}|ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}" my-site

my-site/index.html:15:sk-proj-EXAMPLEEXAMPLEEXAMPLE1234
my-site/app.js:1:AIzaSyEXAMPLEexampleEXAMPLEexample12345

The pattern catches common OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Google and GitHub key formats. On a clean folder it prints nothing. If it finds a key, move the call behind a server, then replace the key, because a published key counts as leaked.

For the content itself, our guide to building a website with AI shows how to replace everything the AI made up before launch.

08FAQ

Next, connect your custom domain, or compare hosts in where to deploy your app.