OpenAI has opened a public beta of ChatGPT Sites, a feature that lets paying users generate, preview, edit, host and publish interactive websites and lightweight web apps entirely inside ChatGPT—collapsing the path from an idea to a live URL into a single conversation.
July 9, 2026 · OpenAI
ChatGPT Now Builds AND Ships Your Website
A public beta of ChatGPT Sites lets paying users generate, preview, edit, host and publish interactive sites and web apps — collapsing idea to live URL into a single conversation.
500M+
Weekly active users as a built-in distribution channel
~10 min
Reported time to build and publish a live gallery site
1 URL
Deploys replace in place; earlier versions stay saved
The step that got removed
Until now ChatGPT wrote code but stopped short of hosting — forcing a hand-off to separate services. Sites folds it into one flow.
Before
Generate code in ChatGPT
↓ hand off
Deploy on Vercel / Netlify
2 tools, a break in the flow
Now with Sites
Generate → preview → edit → publish
1 flow, straight to a live URL
Idea → live site, in one conversation
Describe / point at files
→
Preview & refine in Canvas
→
Publish to
Hosted on managed infrastructure built on Cloudflare — from static pages to full-stack JavaScript and TypeScript apps, dashboards, prototypes and simple games.
Warm reception
Gallery sites, games and marketing pages built in minutes
Called the easiest starting point for beginners
Rated above rivals like Lovable and Manus for ease of use
The caveats
Published URLs can expose a user name
Staged rollout left some without day-one access
Paid plans only — free & Go excluded; not in EEA, Switzerland or UK at launch
OpenAI wants its assistant to be a place where software is not only written — but shipped .
The open question: can a managed, in-chat approach scale beyond prototypes and internal tools toward production-grade apps — and win over developers on dedicated hosting platforms?
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