The Best Paid PuTTY AlternativesTop Terminal Emulators & SSH Clients like PuTTY

The best paid alternative to PuTTY is ZOC. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and 19 is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to PuTTY are SecureCRT, Token2Shell, AbsoluteTelnet and PenguiNet.

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  1. ZOC icon
     70 likes

    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    78 ZOC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    ZOC vs PuTTY Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    hansolo1988
    3

    Just let me say one thing: Try managing 200 hosts for 10+ clients in the host directory of Putty and ZOC.

    Foworax J. Smith
    Positive
    0

    Much nicer user interface.

    grercl
    Positive
    0

    tabs, ease of use, very easy to customize

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 8 comments
    • ZOC is Paid and ProprietaryPuTTY is Free and Open Source
  2. SecureCRT icon
     34 likes

    SecureCRT combines rock-solid terminal emulation with the strong encryption, data integrity, and authentication options of the Secure Shell protocol. SecureCRT provides secure remote access, file transfer, and data tunneling for everyone in your organization.

    63 SecureCRT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    SecureCRT vs PuTTY Comments
    artcrime
    Positive
    0

    Simply the best telnet/ssh client on the market. Excellent support too!

    • SecureCRT is Paid and ProprietaryPuTTY is Free and Open Source
  3. Token2Shell is a Windows 10 UWP SSH client with X11 forwarding and Docker integration.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  4. AbsoluteTelnet / SSH is a secure flexible terminal client with rock-solid emulations that is suitable for developers, administrators, or deployment across the enterprise. It includes the industry standard SSH protocols to secure terminal session data across insecure environments...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PenguiNet icon
     3 likes

    You've discovered PenguiNet, the simple all-in-one SSH client for Windows! PenguiNet includes an SCP browser, so that you can easily transfer files with just a few mouse clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ShellCraft icon
     1 like

    With convenient and powerful user interface, ShellCraft significantly improve your efficiency. ShellCraft implements the standard SSH/Telnet protocol, it can simply connect to various servers. The session management function make you managing sessions easily, connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. z/Scope icon
     8 likes

    z/Scope is a multi-protocol, multi-host terminal emulator that provides access to multiple terminal-based applications in a way that is familiar to every user, using a modern tabbed interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  8. GSW ConnectBot from Georgia SoftWorks is a simple to use but powerful Telnet/SSH client designed for use in demanding industrial environments and tested on a variety of versions of Android. Easy network licensing and configuration cloning/transfer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    2
    GSW ConnectBot vs PuTTY Comments
    Futan Chung
    Positive
    0

    GSW ConnectBot comes with very strong security algorithms, considerably stronger than PuTTY and also many corporate features like network licensing and configuration cloning. I work in an industrial environment so these features really matter to me.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    dev_ben
    Positive
    0

    I have used GSW ConnectBot as an Android Telnet Client alternative to PuTTY and it has never let me down. The product is very stable and the staff that supports the products are top-tier

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • GSW ConnectBot is Paid and ProprietaryPuTTY is Free and Open Source
  9. Axessh icon
     Like

    Axessh is Windows SSH Client for secure connections.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SSH Proxy can help you turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS v5 proxy, intuitive and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Putty for Mac icon
     2 likes

    Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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