Password Pusher vs PrivateBin

Both are self-hosted pastebins projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Password Pusher and PrivateBin are closely matched on maintenance health (81 vs 84). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Password PusherPrivateBin
Health score 81/100 84/100
Commits (11 mo) 1050 656
Commits (last 3 mo) 308 231
Stars 3.2k 8.6k
Latest release 21 Sept 2026 8 Aug 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 Zlib
Built with Docker, K8S, Ruby PHP
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Password Pusher

Dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords (or text) over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed.

81/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 32/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 80% of tracked projects; popularity more than 59%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 98 commits 2025-11: 86 commits 2025-12: 99 commits 2026-01: 92 commits 2026-02: 48 commits 2026-03: 136 commits 2026-04: 110 commits 2026-05: 73 commits 2026-06: 98 commits 2026-07: 88 commits 2026-08: 122 commits

PrivateBin

Minimalist pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 28/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 71% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 116 commits 2025-11: 74 commits 2025-12: 22 commits 2026-01: 50 commits 2026-02: 59 commits 2026-03: 19 commits 2026-04: 30 commits 2026-05: 55 commits 2026-06: 82 commits 2026-07: 114 commits 2026-08: 35 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted pastebins.