--- title: "The open alternative to Claude Design – Any agent, one URL" description: "Reviewers comment on your prototype without a Claude account. Display keeps HTML prototypes from any agent at one URL. Earlier versions on paid plans." --- # The open alternative to Claude Design for prototypes from any agent Reviewers comment on your prototype without a Claude account, and each update keeps the same URL. Display holds HTML prototypes from Claude Design, Cursor, Codex or any other agent. It does not make the design. [Publish a prototype free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan Kestrel's onboarding prototype, an HTML page open on Display. The version history lists four versions at the same URL. Claude Code published v1 for Ana Ruiz. Codex published v2 for Ben Okafor. Priya Shah edited v3 on the page. Cursor published v4 for Maya Lind. Version 4 answers Priya's comment “Can the first step ask for less?” ## Should I use Claude Design or Display? Use Display to hold a prototype while people review it. Each update keeps the same URL, and an invited reviewer comments without a Claude account. Solo and higher plans open and restore earlier versions. Keep Claude Design to make the design. Every Claude plan includes it. Anthropic says that the standalone version at claude.ai/design closes on December 14, 2026, and that public links to its projects stop working after it closes. To keep a prototype at a link that reviewers can open, export it as standalone HTML and publish it to Display. ## What Claude Design does and what Display adds Claude Design makes the design. Display holds the prototype after it is made. They differ in which agents can publish, what happens to earlier versions and who can comment. | | Claude Design | Display | |---|---|---| | **Comment without a Claude account** | No – Claude account needed | Yes – One-time password by email | | **Version history** | No – Not available yet | Yes – Paid plans | | **Holds prototypes from other agents** | Partly – Imports existing design work | Yes – Any agent | | **Share outside your company** | Partly – Owner setting on Team and Enterprise | Yes – Email invite with a role | | **Agent reads comments and makes the change** | Yes – Claude only | Yes – Any agent, through MCP or the CLI | | **Search across your work** | Not documented | Yes – For people and agents | | **Open a shared link without signing in** | Partly – Most artifacts | Yes – Public documents | | **Creates the design from a prompt** | Yes | No – Your agent makes it | | **Applies your organization's design system** | Yes | No – Planned | | **Canvas with several screens** | Yes | No – Planned | | **Real-time co-editing** | Partly – Basic | No – One editor at a time | | **Export to PPTX, PDF or Canva** | Yes | No – Source download | Checked 11 November 2026. Sources: [Get started with Claude Design](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604416-get-started-with-claude-design) · [Share artifacts](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9547008-share-artifacts) · [Move from standalone Claude Design to Claude](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17440474-move-from-standalone-claude-design-to-claude) · [Claude pricing](https://claude.com/pricing) ## One place for prototypes from every agent your team uses Ana designs in Claude Design. Maya and Ben build prototypes in Cursor and Codex. Display holds all of them, private until you share them. - **Before:** Split by tool - **After:** One place for every agent Company prototypes open for everyone at Kestrel with Google or Microsoft sign-in. ## Any agent publishes, and reviewers need no Claude account Publish from the agent you use, change agents later, and invite reviewers by email. - **Any agent publishes** – Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or any other agent publishes an HTML prototype through the CLI, MCP or the API. A Claude Design prototype goes in as its standalone HTML export. - **Change agents, keep the prototype** – A different agent updates the same prototype at the same URL. Comments stay, each version shows who published it, and you can download the source at any time. Solo and higher plans open and restore earlier versions. - **Reviewers need no Claude account** – An invited reviewer signs in with a one-time password sent to their email address, selects text on the prototype and comments. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. ## Comments become the next version Reviewers comment on the prototype. Your agent reads the comments and publishes the next version at the same URL, so the link you sent still opens the current prototype. ## Edit any document in-line. Fix any line right where you read it. 1. Select Edit on the page 2. Change it on the page 3. Save – the next version at the same URL ## Each prototype is private until you share it Choose who can open one prototype, a folder or a whole Space. - **Private by default** – Every prototype stays private until you share it with people and groups. - **One-click sign-in for colleagues** – On Solo and higher plans, colleagues use the Google or Microsoft account they already have. Readers need no seat. - **Invite clients and partners** – Invite people outside your company by email, and give each one a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. - **Know who opened it** – On Team and Business, see who opened which prototype, and when, before you follow up. ## Claude Design or Display? Many teams use both. Claude Design makes the design. Display holds the prototype while people review it. ### Use Claude Design if - You need Claude to create the design from a prompt, with your organization's design system. - You want to change the design by hand on a canvas, or have Claude make the change from an inline comment. - You need a PPTX, PDF or Google Slides file, or want to send the design to Canva, Miro, Lovable or v0. - Everyone who comments is in your Claude organization, or has a Claude account you can invite by email. ### Use Display if - You need to open and restore earlier versions of a prototype. - Cursor or Codex also build your prototypes, and you want them in one place. - Clients or colleagues without a Claude account need to comment. - Cursor, Codex or Claude Code must read the comments and publish the next version at the same URL. > “We gave it to a few people, expecting the super users who’d been asking for a publishing platform. We didn’t realize the whole business would pick it up.” > > – Rory Powell, IT and AI Ops Manager, Kogan.com **Start on the Free plan: $0.** The Free plan includes three gated documents. No credit card required. A new prototype is private until you share it. Display does not use your content to train AI models. [Start free](https://app.display.dev/) ## A full workspace behind every URL ### Spaces and folders A Space for every team, with folders inside and its own permissions. ### Search everything you can open You and your agents can search every doc you can open. ### Work across every agent and plan Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, on personal or company plans. One doc, one URL. ### Build internal apps (private beta) Develop applications that pull data from your sources. ### Connect your data sources (private beta) Pull data from the sources your team already uses. ## Before you publish a Claude Design prototype ### What happens when claude.ai/design closes on 14 December 2026? Anthropic says that the standalone version at claude.ai/design will close on December 14, 2026, and will then be read-only. It says that chats and comments cannot move to Claude, and that public links to projects in the standalone version stop working after it closes. Anthropic offers a move into Claude, which is rolling out gradually to paid plans, and a .zip copy of each project. Read [Anthropic's guide](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17440474-move-from-standalone-claude-design-to-claude) for the steps. To keep a prototype at a link that reviewers can open, export it as standalone HTML and publish it to Display. ### Claude Design is included in my Claude plan. Why add Display? Keep Claude Design to make the design. Every Claude plan includes it, and it uses the same usage limits as the rest of Claude. Add Display when you need earlier versions, comments from people without a Claude account, or one place for prototypes from other agents. Display Free costs $0 and includes three gated documents. Solo costs $12 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly. Team costs $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly, for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan. ### Who can open and comment on a prototype? A new prototype is private by default. You can share it with people and groups, open it to everyone in your company, or make it public. To comment, a person signs in and needs Commenter access or higher. A visitor on a public link who has not signed in can read but cannot comment. Every plan includes unlimited Viewers and Commenters. ### Do reviewers need an account? They need no Claude account. To read, an invited reviewer enters a one-time password sent to their email address. To comment, they sign in to a free Display account the same way. On Solo and higher plans, colleagues can also sign in with Google or Microsoft. ### Does Display use my content to train AI models? No. We do not use customer content to train or fine-tune any AI or machine-learning model. ### Which plans keep version history? Solo, Team and Business. On those plans, you can open and restore earlier versions of a prototype. On Free, each update keeps the same URL, but you cannot open earlier versions. ### How do I move a Claude Design prototype to Display? Export the design from Claude Design as standalone HTML, then publish the file to Display. In three exports we verified, the interactions we exercised still worked after publishing. Click through your prototype before you share it. ### Can people outside our company contribute? Yes. Invite them by email to a prototype or a folder, and give them a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. They sign in with a one-time password. They do not join your organization. ### Which agents work with Display? Any agent that writes HTML or Markdown, for example Cursor, Codex, Claude Code and ChatGPT. Agents connect through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API. Each person can use a different agent on the same prototype. ### Does Display create designs? No. Display does not generate designs. Your agent makes the prototype, or you make it in Claude Design. Display gives it one URL, access control, comments and versions. ### Does Display have a canvas, Figma publishing or a PPTX export? No. A native Canvas is planned. Today, Display opens each prototype as its own page. People with edit access change the page in the browser, in Visual or Source mode, one editor at a time. Display has no Figma publishing and no PPTX or Canva export. You can download the source file of any prototype. Use Claude Design when you need those exports. ### Does Display open the .zip or PPTX export from Claude Design? Not as a page. Publish the standalone HTML export. A folder can store the PPTX file for download. An import for Claude Design projects is planned. ### Does Display use our design system? An organization design system is planned. Today, your agent applies your design system when it writes the HTML, and Display keeps the file as the agent made it. ### Is Display open source? No. “Open” means three things. Any agent can publish to Display. Anyone you choose can open a prototype without a seat. You can download the source file of any prototype at any time. ## Give every prototype one place for review Publish from Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or any other agent that writes HTML. A Claude Design prototype goes in as its standalone HTML export. Reviewers comment without a Claude account. [Publish a prototype free](https://app.display.dev/) · No card required · Viewers and Commenters are free on every plan