Comparison of pastebins

The comparisons below are intended to show the general and specific feature differences among the variety of available pastebins on the Internet. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all pastebins, merely the established, commonly used, or prototypical ones.

General pastebin features

This table lists the general features available in a variety of pastebins with a short list explaining the list's headers:

Feature Syntax highlighting Diffs Archiving Open source Encryption / Passwords Subdomains Privacy SSL Social networking Compiler / Interpreter URL shortening Other Languages Status
clippy.tk Yes No Yes No Yes(Passwords) No Yes No No No No More than 50 programming languages, password protection, antispam filters. English Active
codepad.org Yes No Yes No No No Yes No No Yes No English Active
codetidy.com Yes No No No Yes (Passwords) No Yes No No No No English Active
Codetrunk Yes No Yes Yes No Yes (automatic) No No No No No Available Open Source (Affero GPL) at http://code.google.com/p/codetrunk English Inactive
codeupload.com Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Supports 130+ different programming languages, allows commenting and has printer friendly page. English Active
dpaste.com Yes No No No No No No No No No No Built for users of the Django web framework (and the #django IRC channel), available highlightings strongly related to that. English Active
dpaste.org Yes Yes Yes Yes [1] No No No No No No No A free Django based pastebin inspired by dpaste.com, adding several additional features. English, German Active
dumpz.org Yes No No No Yes No No No Yes No No Optional registration to keep track user's posts English, Russian Active
gist.GitHub.com Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No Very advanced version control. Each paste (or gist as it is named here) is essentially its own git repository. Tightly integrated with github.com English Active
hastebin Yes No Yes Yes No No No No Yes No No Written in node.js, support a variety of storage types English Active
hpaste.org Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes No Free pastebin written in haskell English Active
ideone.com Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No more than 40 programming languages and API available English, Polish, Spanish, Mongolian, Russian Active
jsbin.com Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Real time preview, cloning English Active
kpaste.net Yes Yes Yes No No Yes (automatic) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Optional registration to keep track of your posts. English Active
mathbin.net No No No No No No No No No Yes (for LaTeX equations) No English Active
meetog.com No No No No No Yes Yes No Yes No No Optional sign-up to edit, delete and keep track of posts, image posting, YouTube videos embedding, comments, tags, basic stats English Active
mysticpaste.com Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No No Twitter posting, paste comments, multiple plugins and 3rd party tools. Git repository : http://github.com/kinabalu/mysticpaste/ English Active
defuse.ca No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Disallows search engine indexing. Optional client-side encryption. English Active
Likecode Yes No No No Yes No No No Yes No No Russian Active
Ourway Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No No No Yes Supports Reply - short Urls - Email Sharing - view as plain text Example - based on pygments and web2py English Active
paste.frubar.net Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No Has a client. See the main site. English Active
paste.info.tm Yes No Yes Yes [2] Yes (Passwords) No Yes No Yes No No BitBucket repository English Inactive
paste.kde.org Yes No Yes Yes Yes (Passwords) Yes [3] Yes No Yes No No Anti-spam measures (Project_Honey_Pot integration and a HTML trap), API and RSS feeds. Git repository: https://gitorious.org/sticky-notes English Active
paste2.org Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No English Active
Feature Syntax highlighting Diffs Archiving Open source Encryption / Passwords Subdomains Privacy SSL Social networking Compiler / Interpreter URL shortening Other Languages Status
PasteBin.BJETDesign.com Yes No No No No No No No Yes No No English Active
pastebin.ca Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes (manual) Yes Yes Yes No No Git repository : http://github.com/slepp/pastebin.ca English, French, German, Japanese Active
pastebin.com Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No English Active
pastebin.im Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No No English, Mandarin Chinese Active
pasteclip.com Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No No Other English Active
PasteHTML.com No No No No No No No No No No No Has a script to paste from Linux console. Can be used to host HTML pages. English Active
Pasteit.in Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No More than 50 programming languages, no captcha required. English Active
pastemin.com No No Yes No No No Yes No No No Yes Minimalist pastebin, no fluff. Short URLs at http://pastem.in/ English Active
PasteSite Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No No No No Ability to sign-up to keep track of and delete pastes English Active
Pastie Yes No Yes No No No Yes No No No No English Active
Plakkert Yes No Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No Offers many share abilities, Dutch Active
pure-paste.tk No No No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes No indexing. Optional encryption. English Active
pzt.me Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (automatic) Yes Yes No No Yes Offers basic image hosting, highlighting for more than 60 languages URL Shortening and embedding of video from YouTube, DailyMotion and Vimeo. [4] English Active
PasteBox Yes Yes No No Yes (Password/Hashes) No Yes Yes No No No Another Paste utility, focused on privacy - does not store your IP address, supports replies, cli tool available, useable per accesskeys, is using django and pygments. English Active
slexy.org Yes No Yes No No No Yes No No No No English Active
snipplr.com Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No User required, internal social networking English Active
snipt.org Yes No Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No English Active
sprunge Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No Git repository: http://github.com/rupa/sprunge English Active
tinypaste.com Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (automatic) Yes Yes Yes Yes (via screenscrape to public codepad api) No Largest pastebin in traffic according to alexa English Active
txtb.in No No No No No No No No Yes (dedicated) No No Twitter specialized English Inactive
webpaste.net Yes No Yes No Yes(Passwords) Yes Yes No Yes Yes (by public ideone api) No Html and JavaScript Preview! English Inactive
Wklej.se Yes No Yes No Yes(Passwords) Yes Yes No No No Yes PDF generator, set expiration date, text version Polish Active
YourPaste.net Yes No Yes No No No Yes No No No No Pastebinit to paste from (Linux) console English Active
Feature Syntax highlighting Diffs Archiving Open source Encryption / Passwords Subdomains Privacy SSL Social networking Compiler / Interpreter URL shortening Other Languages Status

Notes

  1. ^ "django-paste project on Google Code". http://code.google.com/p/django-paste/. Retrieved 2010-08-24. 
  2. ^ "PASTE project on SourceForge.net". https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpaste/. Retrieved 2010-03-13. 
  3. ^ "Project specific paste documentation on paste.kde.org". https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpaste/. Retrieved 2011-06-19. 
  4. ^ "pzt.me project homepage". https://pzt.me/. Retrieved 2010-04-20.