Best self-hosted pastebins
A [pastebin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin) is a type of online content-hosting service used for sharing and storing code and text.
We track 25 self-hosted pastebins projects. The median health score in this category is 54, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and 4 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.
| # | Project | Health | Activity | Stars | Built with | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PrivateBin Minimalist pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data. | Thriving · 84 | 8.6k | PHP | 8 Aug 2026 | |
| 2 | Yopass Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files. | Thriving · 83 | 3.2k | Go, Docker | 18 Sept 2026 | |
| 3 | Karakeep Bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there. | Thriving · 82 | 29k | Docker | 11 Aug 2026 | |
| 4 | Password Pusher Dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords (or text) over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a | Healthy · 81 | 3.2k | Docker, K8S | 21 Sept 2026 | |
| 5 | SilverBullet Note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset. | Healthy · 80 | 6.2k | Docker, Deno | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| 6 | Opengist Pastebin powered by Git. | Healthy · 69 | 3.4k | Docker, Go | 30 Aug 2026 | |
| 7 | paaster End-to-end encrypted pastebin built with the objective of simplicity. | Healthy · 68 | 563 | Docker | 23 Sept 2026 | |
| 8 | Hemmelig Share encrypted secrets cross organizations, or as private persons. | Steady · 62 | 1.2k | Docker, Nodejs | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 9 | rustypaste Minimal file upload/pastebin service. | Steady · 60 | 1.2k | Rust | 7 Sept 2026 | |
| 10 | snowshare File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expir | Steady · 57 | 87 | Nodejs, Docker | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 11 | Snipo Lightweight, self‑hosted snippet manager for saving and organizing code and text snippets with folders, tags, API, and G | Steady · 54 | 71 | Go, Docker | 26 Sept 2026 | |
| 12 | ByteStash Pastebin and file storage service with a simple web interface. Supports syntax highlighting, optional user authenticatio | Steady · 53 | 2.5k | Docker | 19 Jun 2026 | |
| 13 | Wastebin Lightweight, minimal and fast pastebin with an SQLite backend. | Slowing · 51 | 862 | Rust, Docker | 10 Aug 2026 | |
| 14 | 015 A temporary file sharing platform. Focused on providing one-time, temporary file and text upload, processing, and sharin | Slowing · 51 | 410 | Docker | 5 Sept 2026 | |
| 15 | 1time Zero-knowledge one-time secret sharing. Create a one-time link for a password, API key, or file. Encrypted client-side i | Slowing · 50 | 64 | Docker | 26 Sept 2026 | |
| 16 | Sup3rS3cretMes5age Very simple (to deploy and to use) secret message service using Hashicorp Vault as a secrets storage. | Slowing · 44 | 569 | Go | 22 Jun 2026 | |
| 17 | Chiyogami Pastebin with API, client-side encryption, user accounts, syntax highlighting, markdown rendering, and more. | Slowing · 43 | 80 | Docker | 21 Jul 2026 | |
| 18 | Pastefy Beautiful, simple and easy to deploy Pastebin with optional client encryption, multitab pastes, an API, a highlighted ed | Slowing · 37 | 457 | Docker, K8S | 1 Jun 2026 | |
| 19 | BinPastes Minimal pastebin supporting client-side encryption, fulltext search, one-time messages. Intended for one to few users lo | At risk · 33 | 19 | Java | 12 Nov 2025 | |
| 20 | Local Content Share Store and share text snippets and files within your local network. | At risk · 22 | 494 | Docker, Go | 28 Jan 2026 | |
| 21 | not-th.re Simple paste sharing platform, with client side encryption, featuring the monaco browser-based code editor. | At risk · 20 | 16 | Nodejs, Docker | 1 Feb 2025 | |
| 22 | dpaste Simple pastebin with multiple text and code option, with short url result easy to remember. | At risk · 7 | 641 | Docker, Python | 18 Nov 2023 | |
| 23 | lesma Simple paste app friendly with browser and command line. | Unrated | — | Rust, Docker | 21 Jan 2026 | |
| 24 | pacebin Super-minimal pastebin and file upload service focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration | Unrated | — | C | — | |
| 25 | SnyPy Open source on-prem code snippet manager. | Unrated | — | Docker | — |
Which one should you run?
If you want the safest bet on longevity, PrivateBin is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 84/100. Yopass is the closest runner-up (83/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.
A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.