Cacher vs Opengist

Cacher stores and organizes code snippets for individuals and teams, with snippets available online through desktop clients and a web app. Color-coded labels help organize a collection, while shared libraries let team members collaborate. Cacher syncs in both directions with GitHub Gist. Its VS Code extension can turn selected editor text into snippets or insert snippets from Cacher libraries; Slack tools can create snippets from messages, preview Cacher links, and send team activity notifications. Chrome and Firefox extensions save code examples from webpages. A local Run Server executes snippet code through the machine’s shell. Markdown editing with live preview and file or image uploads are listed, with attachment limits varying by plan. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 15 private snippets, three private labels, unlimited public snippets, 10 MB attachments, and 50 MB/month uploads. Expert costs $9.99 a month billed annually; Teams costs $29.99 a month billed annually for the first five seats, with extra seats at $8/month each. Self-hosted Cacher costs $5,000 a year plus $150/seat/year.

Opengist is a free, open-source pastebin that you host yourself, with Git as its storage and workflow. Every snippet is a Git repository: users can create snippets with a plain Git push, or clone and push over HTTP or SSH. Visibility can be public, unlisted, or private, and snippets may contain multiple files, binary files, and images, with ZIP downloads available. Users can browse revision history, compare changes with diffs, and search full text, code, and metadata. Rendering includes syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages plus Markdown, Mermaid, LaTeX, CSV, and media files. Login options include GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, OIDC, and LDAP; TOTP and WebAuthn are listed for account security. Deployment options are a single binary, Docker, or Kubernetes with SQLite, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. A REST API, embeds, JSON retrieval, topics, likes, and forks are also provided.