- Free allowance
- 10 Megabytes (sizelimit = 10485760 bytes) per document or comment by default, set by each instance's operator; file upload is off by default (fileupload = false).
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap10485760 bytes per document or comment by default (sizelimit)
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | 10 Megabytes (sizelimit = 10485760 bytes) per document or comment by default, set by each instance's operator; file upload is off by default (fileupload = false). unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 10485760 bytes per document or comment by default (sizelimit) source
10 MB per paste by default (per-instance override); file upload is disabled by default (fileupload = false) and about half the directory shows no file-upload support; burn-after-reading and expiry are server-configurable. |
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| Binding | per-object-cap each document or comment is capped at 10485760 bytes by default; there is no per-account quota because there are no accounts to meter, and each instance sets its own cap |
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| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | free, direct from each instance; most are Cloudflare-proxied (the directory lists CSP/Observatory ratings and uptime). |
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| Per-object cap | 10 Megabytes per document or comment by default (sizelimit = 10485760 bytes); each instance's operator may change it. (10485760 bytes) |
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| Retention | Expiry is chosen per paste from options set by the instance operator: 5min (300 s), 10min, 1hour, 1day, 1week, 1month (30 days), 1year, and never (0, no expiry). |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | Encrypted JSON POST to the instance root with X-Requested-With: JSONHttpRequest; official JS client plus community CLIs. github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin (8690 stars). Instances are independently operated. |
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| Composes with | N instances x 10 MB, and each instance is a separate operator with separate rate policy — so this is the one pastebin class where horizontal sharding across operators is native. Still only ~50 instances, so the aggregate is single-digit GB per round. |
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| Reliability | Instances are volunteer-run with visible uptime as low as 47-49% in the directory, so shard redundancy is mandatory. Content is client-side encrypted, so the operator cannot dedupe or scan — and cannot recover your key either. |
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| Notes | part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Evidence note | documented vendor pages captured 2026-11-03: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/master/cfg/conf.sample.php, https://privatebin.info/directory/; every field that decides the verdict cites one of these captures |
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