Pagepost vs ChatGPT canvas sharing
Canvas has a share button that produces a link without any setup. It is the fastest option available and costs nothing. Where it gets awkward is sending that link outside your own team — the page stays tied to your ChatGPT account and the conversation it came from.
Short answer
Canvas sharing is fine inside a ChatGPT-using team. Pagepost is the better choice when the recipient is a client, or when the link needs to outlive the conversation.
Side by side
| Pagepost | ChatGPT canvas sharing | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Add the connector once (developer mode), then ask it to publish | None — the share button is in the canvas toolbar |
| Where the page lives | pagepost.app, a domain you can point your own at | chatgpt.com |
| Tied to the source conversation | No — the published file stands alone | Yes |
| Revoke or expire it later | Yes — revoke, set an expiry, or delete from the dashboard | Unshare the canvas |
| See if anyone opened it | View counts per link | No |
| Edit after publishing | Edit in place at the same URL, or have ChatGPT rewrite it | Edit the canvas |
| Works in deep research | Yes — published pages are readable via search and fetch | Not applicable |
| Cost | Free | Included with ChatGPT |
When ChatGPT canvas sharing is the better choice
- Everyone who needs to see it already uses ChatGPT in your workspace.
- You want zero setup and the page is short-lived.
- You are still iterating and nobody outside the conversation has the link yet.
Questions
Do people need a ChatGPT account to open a shared canvas?+
Access depends on your workspace and plan settings, and OpenAI has changed the behaviour over time — check what your own share link does before sending it to a client. A published Pagepost URL has no such dependency: it opens in any browser for anyone.
What happens to the link if I delete the conversation?+
A canvas share link is tied to the conversation it came from, so deleting or archiving the chat can break it. A published file is independent of the chat that produced it.
Can ChatGPT update a page it already published to Pagepost?+
Yes. The connector exposes fetch and update_file, so ChatGPT can load the real source, revise it, and write it back to the same URL.