Alternatives and competitors
Sites like pastebin.com
The 20 closest pastebin text sharing alternatives to pastebin.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to pastebin.com? The closest matches are JustPaste.it, SlideShare and pixeldrain. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About pastebin.com
pastebin.com
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Wikidata: website for sharing plain text
Summary by Claude
A website for storing and sharing plain text and code snippets online, with optional expiration times, syntax highlighting, and account features for editing and managing pastes.
- Who it’s for
- Developers and anyone sharing text online
- Business model
- Advertising and paid Pro subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to pastebin.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to pastebin.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to pastebin.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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JustPaste.it - paste text and share with your friends
The quickest way to share text and images with other people
Very close cos 0.940 - 02
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain
Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.
Very close cos 0.904 - 04
online publishing platform
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
Very close cos 0.896 - 06 Very close cos 0.895
- 07
Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.893 - 08
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Close cos 0.892 - 09
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database of icons
Close cos 0.890 - 10
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.890 - 11
note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
Close cos 0.891 - 12
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close cos 0.891 - 14
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close cos 0.891 - 15
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Close cos 0.893 - 16
Verification Required
English-language imageboard website
Close cos 0.888 - 17
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Close cos 0.888 - 18
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Close cos 0.887 - 19
WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
Close cos 0.887 - 20
open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Close cos 0.884
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to pastebin.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones pastebin.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What pastebin.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://pastebin.com/assets/9ce1885/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://pastebin.com/assets/c80611c4/css/bootstrap.min.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/codemirror/5.58.2/codemirror.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563109318bee96b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sue.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jkUAIOE8owUXu8UXIhRLB9oHJsWBfOgJbZzncqHoF4A
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what pastebin.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on pastebin.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on pastebin.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on pastebin.com 8/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Zendesk · not on pastebin.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on pastebin.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on pastebin.com 5/20
- Stripe · not on pastebin.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on pastebin.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pastebin.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on pastebin.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on pastebin.com 4/20