Tera Term

18 likes

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.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application typeApplication types

Platforms

Windows

Tera Term alternatives

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Properties

Lightweight

Features

Ad-free
Support for scripting
Command line interface
Serial-port
SSH

Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

Johxz

★★★★★

Dec 1, 2018

This is very useful if you want to automatic any task in servers, routers or any supported terminals. Is a unique terminal to my knowledge and it don't have any alternative that offer the same thing.

[Edited by Johxz, December 01]

Top Negative Comment

Nuncio Bitis

★★★★★

Jul 17, 2023

Out-of-date program. This program hasn't been in active development in 5 years, and the web site shows up as "Bad Gateway"

sgelfond

★★★★★

Sep 30, 2025

The scripting is essential. Simple language to quickly run macros.

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kclifford

★★★★★

Nov 4, 2017

Its the best free terminal emulator that I've used.

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Install from the command line

winget install -e --id TeraTermProject.teraterm

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Tera Term?

TeraTerm Project terminal emulator "Tera Term" and SSH module "TTSSH". This is Tera Term Pro 2.3 successor and is officially recognized by the original author. This software is open source software under BSD License.

Features:

Serial ports larger than COM4.
Baud rate of 14400.
User shortcut key "EditCLS", "EditCLB", "ControlOpenTEK" and "ControlCloseTEK".
Macro commands "clearscreen", "code2str", "enablekeyb", "filemarkptr", "fileseekback", "filestrseek2", "findclose", "findfirst", "findnext", "getdir", "kmtfinish", "kmtget", "makepath", "sendkcode", "setdir", "setexitcode", "str2code" and "testlink".
Macro operator "%".
Macro: a comment can be placed in any line.
Pass-through printing directly to a port
Special options in the setup file "AutoFileRename", "BackWrap", "Beep", "EnableStatusLine", "MaxComPort", "PassThruDelay", "PassThruPort", "PrnConvFF", "RussPrint" and "TitleFormat".
New [Setup] TCP/IP dialog box.
History list of hosts.
New Russian character sets (CP 866 and ISO 8859-5).
New icons.
Selecting text in a rectangular region.
Executing menu commands by user defined keys.
Tera Term extension interface.