An expiry you choose
Ten minutes, an hour, a day, a week, or thirty days on PRO. When the timer runs out the link stops resolving for everyone, including you.
Paste anything. Share one link.
It expires on your terms and nothing is kept afterwards. No account, no trackers, no third party scripts.
⌘↵create Escclear
New paste
Plain text 0 B / 512 KBYour link is ready
Everything the editor does, and nothing it does not
Burn after reading
One deletion decides who gets the text, so a second request that arrives at the same moment gets a 404 rather than a copy.
Encrypt in your browser
The key is generated on your device and lives in the part of the link after the # symbol, which browsers never send to a server.
Password protection
A password is turned into a key in your browser at 150,000 iterations. The password itself never leaves the page, and the server only compares a stored tag.
A link you can edit later
Every paste comes with a manage link, shown once. It can replace the text or delete the paste without an account.
Short links with statistics
On PRO: label a link, cap it at a number of clicks, and read thirty days of daily counts, with a CSV export.
Compare PasteOkay with the alternatives
Twenty-five honest comparisons: pastebins, encrypted transfer tools, document suites and chat apps. Each page names the cases where the other tool is the better choice.
Pastebins
PasteOkay vs Pastebin.com
The public archive, the ads and the private alternative, compared on expiry, encryption and exposure.
Read the comparisonPastebins
PasteOkay vs PrivateBin
Two zero-knowledge pastebins: one is a hosted product, the other is an open-source project you can run.
Read the comparisonCode and docs
PasteOkay vs GitHub Gist
Version history and a GitHub identity, or an anonymous link that expires and keeps no revisions.
Read the comparisonSecure transfer
PasteOkay vs Bitwarden Send
Encrypted sharing inside a password manager, or a link the recipient can open without an account.
Read the comparisonSecure transfer
Firefox Send alternatives
Mozilla's self-destructing links are gone. What replaced them for text, and what to use for files.
Read the comparisonCode and docs
PasteOkay vs Google Docs
A permanent document with comments and history, or a private note that disappears on schedule.
Read the comparisonGuides for the handoffs people get wrong
Short, step-by-step answers for sharing passwords, logs and one-time secrets without leaving copies in chat, email or a ticket.
Security guide
Share a password safely
A three-minute handoff with a short expiry, a separate password and optional browser encryption.
Read the guideSecurity guide
Share logs without leaking secrets
What to redact from a log or stack trace, and how to deliver the diagnostic without exposing production.
Read the guideSecurity guide
Use burn after reading
When a one-time link is the right model, when it backfires, and how to prepare the recipient.
Read the guideHow it stays private
Nothing readable at rest
Pastes are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they are written, using a per-paste salt, so a database dump is base64 noise.
No raw addresses
Rate limiting uses a keyed hash salted with the date. It stops repeat abuse within the day and stops linking a visitor to their own history after it.
No third parties
No analytics, no fonts fetched from a CDN, no external icons. The only outbound connection the page makes is the challenge that keeps bots out.
A strict content policy
Scripts run only from this origin and only with a per-request nonce, nothing is framed, and the page sends no referrer, so a link fragment can never leak.
Free, or five dollars once
Free covers everything most people need. PRO is a one-time payment for bigger pastes, a longer lifetime and the short link tools. Nothing recurring, no subscription to cancel.
| Capability | Free | PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum paste size | 512 KB | 2 MB |
| Pastes per hour | 30 | 300 |
| Maximum link lifetime | 7 days | 30 days |
| Password, burn, manage link | Included | Included |
| Link shortener | – | 100 links |
| Custom paste address | – | Included |
| Labels, click limits, CSV | – | Included |
| Click statistics | – | Last 30 days |
PRO is $5 lifetime, once. Open your account to request it.
Three steps
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Paste and choose
Drop in the text, pick an expiry, and add a password or encryption if it needs one. ⌘↵ creates the link.
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Send one link
Copy it, keep the manage link somewhere safe, and close the tab. There is nothing else to remember.
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It disappears
At the expiry, or on the first read with burn after reading, or right now if you delete it from the manage link.
Questions people ask first
Is PasteOkay free?
Yes. The free plan allows pastes up to 512 KB, thirty pastes an hour and expiry up to seven days. PRO is a one-time payment of five dollars for 2 MB pastes, a higher rate, thirty-day expiry and the short link tools.
Do I need an account to create a paste?
No. PasteOkay creates a paste without an account. If you want PRO features, the service gives you a random account number that is shown once; there is no email address and no password to reset.
Can PasteOkay read a paste encrypted in the browser?
No. The browser generates the encryption key and places it after the # in the link. Browsers do not send URL fragments to servers, so the server stores only ciphertext.
What happens when a paste expires?
Every read compares the expiry against the current time, so an expired paste stops resolving immediately. The row is physically removed during a later cleanup, and the content is never shown again.
How is PasteOkay different from Pastebin?
PasteOkay has no public paste directory and no ads. Pastes are private by default, can be password protected or encrypted in the browser, and can be deleted with a manage link that is shown once.
Can I delete a paste before it expires?
Yes. Creating a paste returns a manage link. The secret part of that link stays in the browser and lets the creator replace the text or delete the paste at any time.