Wastebin
Lightweight, minimal and fast pastebin with an SQLite backend.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 46 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 3.9.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Pastebins: Pastebin alternatives.
At a glance
Wastebin quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 881
- Last commit
- 10 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.9.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A minimal pastebin with a design shamelessly copied from bin."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Wastebin scores 92/100, #6 of 25 in Pastebins: 46 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.9.0, 15 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 881 stars add 11.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 8.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
46 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
3.9.0 released 15 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.8 / 20
881 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 46
- Last 90 days
- 184
- Last 12 months
- 10 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 25 tools in Pastebins by health , between Yopass (#5) and 015 (#7) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Rust, Docker |
| Latest release | 3.9.0 · 15 days ago |
| Stars | 881 |
| Open issues | 12 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | matze/wastebin ↗ |
Wastebin vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Wastebin (Pastebins), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ByteStash | 94 | 2.6k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Wastebin (this tool) | 92 | 881 | MIT | 10 days ago |
| paaster | 91 | 568 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| rustypaste | 82 | 1.2k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| BinPastes | 61 | 19 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| pacebin | 10 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 | 1.1 years ago |
Wastebin: common questions
Is Wastebin still maintained?
Wastebin had 46 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 days ago; the latest tagged release, 3.9.0, is from 15 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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