Pastebin is the best-known public site for sharing snippets of text and code, now heavy with ads and scraping. Hosting your own paste service lets you set expiry, encrypt content, and keep logs, tokens and config fragments off a public third-party site.
11 open-source alternatives to Pastebin you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
PrivateBin/PrivateBin
|
Pastebins | 8,741 | PHP | 2d |
| 2 |
szabodanika/microbin
|
Pastebins URL Shorteners |
4,640 | Rust | 2mo |
| 3 |
thomiceli/opengist
|
Pastebins | 3,413 | Go | 5d |
| 4 |
Tygs/0bin
|
Pastebins | 1,402 | JavaScript | 1y |
| 5 |
MaxLeiter/Drift
|
Pastebins | 1,363 | TypeScript | 3y |
| 6 | orhun/rustypaste | Pastebins | 1,215 | Rust | today |
| 7 |
matze/wastebin
|
Pastebins | 887 | Rust | 22d |
| 8 |
DarrenOfficial/dpaste
|
Pastebins | 643 | Python | today |
| 9 |
WardPearce/paaster
|
Pastebins | 569 | TypeScript | 1d |
| 10 |
interaapps/pastefy
|
Pastebins | 464 | Vue | 5mo |
| 11 |
bepasty/bepasty-server
|
Pastebins | 222 | Python | today |