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

Top 10K · #3,128 English 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit pastebin.com

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

QuizletHow-To GeekYouTubePHPScribdCanvaMediumpixeldrainSlideShareJustPaste.it

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to pastebin.com

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to pastebin.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    JustPaste.it justpaste.it Top 10K English

    JustPaste.it - paste text and share with your friends

    The quickest way to share text and images with other people

  2. 02
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

  3. 03
    pixeldrain pixeldrain.com Top 10K English

    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.

  4. 04
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

  5. 05
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  6. 06
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Flaticon flaticon.com Top 10K English

    That request didn't go through. Our security filter flagged something. You don't have permission to access this page.

    database of icons

  8. 08
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  9. 09
    Obsidian obsidian.md Top 10K English

    Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

    The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

  10. 10
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  11. 11
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  12. 12
    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

    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.

  13. 13
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  14. 14
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    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.

  15. 15
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

  16. 16
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English

    photo sharing website

  17. 17
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

  18. 18
    One one.com Top 10K English

    Domains, Hosting, Websites & Email in One Place | one.com UK

    Everything you need to get your business online: domain, hosting, AI website builder and email. Hosting from £1.99/mo with a free domain for a year.

  19. 19
    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.

  20. 20
    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English

    4shared - free file sharing and storage

    Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

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
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/codemirror/5.58.2/codemirror.min.js
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563109318bee96b-HAM
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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