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We've compiled a list of 96 free and paid alternatives to PuTTY. The primary competitors include OpenSSH, cmder. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between PuTTY and MobaXterm, KiTTY, Remmina. Also you can look at other similar options here: Network and Admin Software.


OpenSSH
Free Open Source

OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on.

cmder
Free Open Source

Portable terminal app that bundles ConEmu and Clink with great looking defaults.

An advanced terminal that gives Windows users a powerful, Unix-like command-line experience.

KiTTY
Free Open Source

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.

mRemoteNG
Free Open Source

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.

Guake terminal
Free Open Source

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment.

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

Terminal emulator, SSH client, telnet client, serial connection terminal.

ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform.

Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

PuTTY Platforms

tick-square Windows
tick-square Linux

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PuTTY Overview

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port.

A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

PuTTY Features

tick-square Xterm emulation
tick-square Telnet client
tick-square Session management
tick-square Host management
tick-square Configurable
tick-square Built-in SSH client
tick-square Tabbed interface
tick-square Download Accelerators
tick-square SSH
tick-square Support for SFTP
tick-square Lightweight

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PuTTY Tags

terminal-emulation terminal-client telnet ssh-client remote-connection console

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