Pricing

Free.

No tiers, no upsell, no card on file. One feature set for everyone.

All of it

Free

Everyone gets the same product.

$0 / forever

Unlimited paste creation (rate-limited per IP; higher ceiling per account when signed in)

Every viewer feature — syntax highlighting, markdown render, tree view for JSON/YAML/TOML, line-range permalinks, raw endpoint

Every privacy mode — unlisted (default), end-to-end encrypted, burn-after-read

All expiry presets, with "never" capped at 30 days

5 MB max body size

curl pste.dev -d @file — works without an account

The pste CLI

FAQ

Why no paid tier?

A pastebin's realistic revenue ceiling doesn't justify the overhead of running it as a business (Gewerbe, VAT-OSS, Stripe Tax, DSGVO around payment data). The simpler outcome — one tier, one set of features, no upgrade nag — also happens to be a better product.

How long do pastes last?

Up to 30 days. After that they are permanently deleted — row, blob, and backup. We do not soft-delete.

Can I self-host?

Yes. Source is on GitHub. License is TBD (intent: BSL or AGPL). Audit the crypto, run it yourself, fork it.

What about end-to-end encryption?

For private pastes, we use AES-GCM in the browser. The key lives in the URL fragment after the #, which the browser never sends to the server.