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A Pastebin alternative for HTML
Anonymous pages stay live for 7 days. Free for 2 public pages.
Try it
Paste HTML, preview the page, share the link
Free, no signup: the page is live for 7 days. Sign up free to keep it (2 pages) and edit it on the same link; Solo adds a password, full analytics and your own domain. Public to anyone with the link and noindex. Phishing and pages built to collect other people’s passwords or card details are taken down.
The difference
Pastebin shows code, Pagelive shows the page
Pastebin describes itself as “a website where you can store text online for a set period of time”, and its FAQ says it is “mainly used by programmers”. So an HTML paste is treated as text: the paste page shows it with syntax highlighting, and the raw view is served as plain text, so the browser prints the tags instead of drawing the page. GitHub Gist does the same with an .html file. That is right for code review. It is wrong when the person you send it to should see the report, the mockup or the landing page the code describes.
Pagelive serves your HTML as a web page. The CSS applies, the scripts run, and the link opens on a phone or a laptop like any site. Every page is noindex by default and served apart from your account.
Side by side
Pastebin vs Pagelive for HTML
| Pastebin | Pagelive | |
|---|---|---|
| What the visitor sees | The code, with syntax highlighting | The rendered page |
| Raw view of an HTML paste | Served as plain text | Served as a web page |
| Plain text and other languages | Yes, many languages | No, HTML pages only |
| Use without an account | Yes, as a guest | Yes, live 7 days unless claimed |
| Edit at the same link | Members can edit | Yes, once claimed |
| Password | Yes, on the paste form | Solo and Team |
| Expiry | Never, burn after read, or 10 minutes to 1 year | One-time link on Solo and Team |
| Views | Unique-visitor hit counter | View count; full analytics on Solo |
| Search engines | Public pastes, the default, can be indexed | Every page noindex by default |
Pastebin column from pastebin.com and pastebin.com/faq as shown on October 29, 2026, including the response header of a public HTML paste’s raw view. Prices and paste limits are left out; check their site for current details.
Honest answer
When to use which
When the text itself is the point: a code snippet you want read as code, a log, a config file, a stack trace, or a note in any language. Syntax highlighting, an expiry you pick down to ten minutes, burn after read, and no account needed. For throwaway text, it is hard to beat.
When the HTML is a page someone should look at: a report, a proposal, a demo, a landing page an AI assistant wrote for you. The link opens the page itself, styled and working, on any device, with a view count and an alert the first time it is opened once you claim it.
How it works
Share HTML code as a webpage in three steps
Paste your HTML
Paste a full page or a snippet into the box above, straight from your editor or a Claude or ChatGPT chat. The preview shows it exactly as it will render.
Get the link
One click publishes it. No signup: anonymous pages stay live for 7 days. The page is noindex, so search engines are told not to list it.
Claim it to keep it
Sign up free and the page stays live as one of your 2 public pages, editable at the same link, with a view count and an alert the first time it is opened.
Pricing
What Pagelive costs
Pastebin alternative FAQ
Yes, if what you want is the page rather than the code. Paste sites like Pastebin and GitHub Gist are built to show code, so an HTML paste appears as highlighted source. Pagelive takes the same paste and serves it as a real web page at a link. Paste your HTML in the box at the top of this page and you get the link in seconds, free and without an account.
Publish it, then send the link. Paste the HTML into Pagelive, check the preview, and click publish: the link opens the rendered page in any browser, on any device, with nothing to download. Anonymous pages stay live for 7 days; claim the page with a free account to keep it as one of your 2 free pages and edit it at the same link.
No. Pastebin shows an HTML paste as source code with syntax highlighting, and its raw view is served as plain text, so the browser displays the tags instead of running them. That is by design: Pastebin is for sharing text. To show HTML as a page, publish it on a host that serves it as HTML, such as Pagelive.
Pastebin has a password option of its own, but it protects the code, not a rendered page. On Pagelive, Solo and Team ($15/mo or $49/mo per workspace) lock the rendered page behind a password, checked on our server before the page is served. The same plans add one-time links that close after the first open, and full analytics.
For text you want read as text: code snippets, logs, config files, error output, or a quick note in any language. Pastebin highlights many languages, lets anyone paste without an account, and lets you pick an expiry from ten minutes to never, or burn after read. Pagelive publishes HTML pages only and does not show code as code.
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