There are three ways to publish a website from ChatGPT. On a paid plan, outside the EU, the UK and Switzerland, ChatGPT Sites hosts it on OpenAI's platform. ChatGPT with Codex, or ChatGPT with DashPloy added as a connector, publishes it to a host of your choosing with your own domain name. And on the free ChatGPT plan, ask for the files and hand them to a free tool that can publish them.
Which one suits you depends on two things: what you pay for, and where you live.
Option 1: ChatGPT Sites
ChatGPT can now host what it builds. You describe the site, it builds a preview, and when you publish it gets an address on OpenAI's platform. A domain you already own can point at it.
The limits matter, so here they are plainly. It is in public beta. It is not offered on the Free or Go plans. It is not available in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK at launch. Some frameworks, databases and background services are not supported. And deleting a site is permanent: there is no restoring it.
If you pay for ChatGPT, live outside Europe and want to stay inside ChatGPT, it is a reasonable choice.
Option 2: ChatGPT with Codex, or with a connector
Codex, the coding side of ChatGPT, runs on your computer and can send files to a host. It comes with the paid ChatGPT plans. Where your plan offers connectors, you can instead add DashPloy to ChatGPT itself and publish from the chat, with nothing installed.
Either way, the site goes online here:
- Sign up with a Google account and copy the line on your dashboard.
- Paste it into ChatGPT with Codex, or add DashPloy as a connector using
https://dashploy.com/mcp. - Describe the site. ChatGPT builds it, publishes it and gives you the address.
What you get that Sites does not give you: a free plan, one custom domain on it, availability in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, and every version kept so yesterday's can be put back in one step.
Option 3: on the free ChatGPT plan
A chat in a browser tab can write you a complete website and cannot send it anywhere. It will tell you so rather than pretend. That is not a fault.
Ask it for every file of the site. Then open Antigravity, Google's coding agent, which is free, paste the line from your dashboard, and hand it the files. It publishes them. The whole path costs nothing.
Side by side
| ChatGPT Sites | DashPloy | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | Yes, never expires |
| Your own domain | Yes, if you own one | Yes, one on the free plan |
| EU, UK and Switzerland | Not at launch | Yes |
| Undo a change | Deleting is permanent | Every version kept |
| Stays in ChatGPT | Yes | Publishes from ChatGPT with Codex or a connector |
ChatGPT website hosting has the full comparison, with the date it was last checked against OpenAI's own pages. These products change often.
Questions people ask
Why does ChatGPT say it cannot publish my website?
Reading a page and sending files are different abilities, and a chat in a browser tab usually has only the first. It is being honest. Move the files to an app that can publish, or add the connector if your plan has one.
Do I have to pay for ChatGPT?
No. ChatGPT's free plan can write the site, and a free tool can publish it. Hosting here is free as well.
Does my site stay online if I stop using ChatGPT?
Yes. A site published here is hosted here, not inside ChatGPT, and any assistant that can publish here can change it.