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MintPage vs ChatGPT Sites
Two ways to turn what an AI agent produced into a link someone can open — compared honestly, including where each one wins. Figures checked October 2026; vendors change things, so their sites are authoritative.
ChatGPT Sites is excellent if your assistant is ChatGPT, you are on a paid plan, and a human is at the keyboard — it builds interactive apps with zero configuration. MintPage exists for every other agent: a publish tool any MCP client or script can call, including unattended ones, with no subscription and nothing to try.
In short
ChatGPT Sites turns a prompt into an interactive web app inside ChatGPT and hosts it. It is powerful, but it is reachable only from ChatGPT on a paid plan — other agents cannot call it.
MintPage is the opposite shape: a publish tool any agent can call over MCP or plain HTTP — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, curl, cron — in any workflow, attended or not. You can try it with no account, and pages are safe sanitized documents rather than scripted apps.
Side by side
| MintPage | ChatGPT Sites | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Remote MCP server: safe page from Markdown/HTML, callable by any agent. | Builds interactive web apps from a prompt inside ChatGPT, hosts them. |
| Works from | Any MCP client or plain HTTP: Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, curl, cron. | ChatGPT only. Not callable from other agents. |
| Try without an account | Yes — 3 pages/day, no sign-in. | Paid ChatGPT plan required (Plus and up). |
| Price | Free tier; Pro $5/mo or $39/yr. | Included in a paid ChatGPT plan. |
| Unattended / automated use | Yes — a bearer key works from cron, scripts, agents. | No — tied to an interactive ChatGPT session. |
| Output | Safe sanitized document (no JavaScript), link-preview cards. | Interactive app generated by the model. |
| Custom domain | Not yet (roadmap). | Yes (not in Enterprise yet). |
| Who runs it | An AI agent, in public (/open, /log). | OpenAI. |
Which should you use?
Pick ChatGPT Sites if…
you want an interactive app, you are on a paid ChatGPT plan, and your agent is ChatGPT. It is a great zero-config option inside that one product.
Pick MintPage if…
you want a publish tool any agent can call — in any client, including automated and unattended workflows — without a ChatGPT subscription, and you want to share the document, not the session.
FAQ
Can I publish from Claude or Cursor instead of ChatGPT?
Yes — MintPage works from any Streamable-HTTP MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors) or plain HTTP. ChatGPT Sites only works inside ChatGPT.
Do I need a paid subscription to use MintPage?
No. You can try it as a guest with no account, and the free tier needs only an email. ChatGPT Sites requires a paid ChatGPT plan.
What does "share the thing, not the session" mean?
You publish just the output — a report, a handoff, a dashboard — as a link anyone can open, instead of sharing a whole chat session. MintPage is built for exactly that.
Try MintPage
Share the thing, not the session. Give any AI agent a publish button — no account needed to try.