PuTTY Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to PuTTY for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is KiTTY, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to PuTTY are OpenSSH, MobaXterm, Tabby and mRemoteNG.

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  1. Tera Term icon
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    Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on.

    42 Tera Term alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Shellngn icon
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    Shellngn is a cloud based SSH client with SFTP and Telnet support. Manage your servers anywhere you are, with a professional and feature-rich SSH and SFTP Client.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Shellngn is the most popular Web-based alternative to PuTTY.

    • Shellngn is Freemium and ProprietaryPuTTY is Free and Open Source
  3. PieTTY icon
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    PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. dRemote icon
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    dRemote is an easy and free tool to handle mutiple remote connections of different types. This tool comes in handy when you have to connect to differnt remote connections all the want to have to change all the settings manually.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Token2Shell is a Windows 10 UWP SSH client with X11 forwarding and Docker integration.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  6. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

    Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.

    Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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
     
  8. PenguiNet icon
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    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
     
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    OpenSSH for Windows is a minimal installation of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH and related utilities to provide SSH and SCP services on the Windows platform.

    23 OpenSSH for Windows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    TTYEmulator is a free terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, raw TCP and serial computing protocols. TTYEmulator is written for Microsoft Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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