PasteBox is a fast, secure, and free online pastebin built for sharing code, logs, configuration files, and plain text. Paste it, get a short link, and share it anywhere — with optional encryption, password protection, expiration, and burn-after-reading for the moments when privacy really matters.
What is PasteBox?
A pastebin is a simple tool for storing a block of text online and sharing it through a short, clean URL — far better than pasting a wall of code into a chat window. PasteBox takes that idea and adds the security, speed, and polish that modern developers and teams expect.
There's no account required to get started: open the editor, paste your content, and you'll have a shareable link in seconds. Create a free account when you want to keep a history of your pastes and unlock private visibility.
Our mission
Make sharing text and code effortless and private by choice — keeping the focus on your content, not on ads or trackers.
We believe sharing a snippet should be instant, that privacy should be a setting you control rather than a feature you pay for, and that the tools developers rely on every day should simply get out of the way.
Why choose PasteBox
- Privacy by design — encryption, passwords, and self-destructing pastes are built in, not bolted on.
- Built for speed — a lightweight interface that loads fast and renders cleanly on any device.
- No sign-up required — create and share a paste as a guest, or register to do more.
- Free to use — the core features are available to everyone at no cost.
- Developer-friendly — syntax highlighting, raw output, embedding, and a full API.
Features
- Syntax highlighting — for 100+ programming languages, with automatic, readable line numbers.
- Password protection — lock a paste so only people with the password can open it.
- Burn after reading — the paste self-destructs immediately after it's viewed once.
- Custom expiration — keep a paste for ten minutes, a day, a week, a month, or forever.
- End-to-end encryption — encrypt content so it stays unreadable at rest.
- Private pastes — registered users can keep pastes visible only to themselves.
- Short, shareable URLs — every paste gets a tidy link that's easy to pass around.
- Raw view & download — grab the plain content or save it as a file in one click.
- Embeddable pastes — drop a paste into a blog post or documentation page.
- Compare & diff — view two pastes side by side to spot what changed.
- Paste history — registered users get a personal dashboard of everything they've shared.
- Developer API — create and manage pastes programmatically from your own tools.
- Dark mode — an easy-on-the-eyes theme for late-night debugging.
Privacy and security
Your content is yours. PasteBox gives you layered controls so you decide exactly who can see a paste and for how long:
- Visibility controls — choose public, unlisted, or private for every paste.
- Optional encryption — protect sensitive snippets so they can't be read from storage.
- Password locks — require a secret before a paste will open.
- Self-destructing pastes — burn-after-reading removes the content after a single view.
- Automatic expiration — set a lifetime and the paste cleans itself up when it's done.
Who uses PasteBox?
| Who How they use it | |
| Developers | Share code snippets, stack traces, and review notes. |
| IT & DevOps teams | Pass around logs, configs, and command output during incidents. |
| Students & educators | Submit assignments, share worked examples, and explain solutions. |
| Writers & teams | Draft and share plain text without formatting getting in the way. |
| Everyone else | Move text between devices quickly with a single link. |
How it works
- Paste your code or text into the editor on the home page.
- Pick a language, an expiration, and a visibility — add a password or encryption if you need it.
- Click create and copy your short link.
- Share the link anywhere; recipients see clean, highlighted content right in their browser.
Supported languages
PasteBox highlights 100+ languages out of the box, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, SQL, Bash, HTML, CSS, JSON, and YAML — plus plain text, which is always welcome.
Get started
Ready to share something? Create your first paste, create a free account to build a history of your pastes, or get in touch if you have a question.