Top Alternatives to PuTTY

OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking.

KiTTY is an implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms.

mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome.

MobaXterm is a free X server for Windows with tabbed SSH terminal, telnet, RDP, VNC, Xdmcp, Mosh and X11-forwarding.

cmder is a software package that provides great console experience even on Windows.

ConnectBot is an open source Secure Shell client for the Android operating system.

ZOC is a modern terminal emulator for Windows and macOS.

Bitvise SSH Server and Client for Windows.

Xshell is a powerful terminal emulator that supports SSH, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL.

Tilda is a GTK+ terminal emulator. It is based on the VTE terminal emulator widget underlying GNOME Terminal.

PAC is a SecureCRT/Putty/etc (connections manager with automations) equivalent for the Linux world.

Vinagre is a VNC, SSH, RDP and SPICE client for the GNOME desktop environment.

Codinn SSH Proxy can help you turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS / HTTPS proxy, intuitive and easy to use.

mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows.

rxvt-unicode is a customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt.

Manage your PuTTY sessions from the tray with freeware stand-alone app.

Multi-Tabbed PuTTY PuTTY is the SSH client for Windows.

SecureCRT is an SSH and Telnet client and terminal emulator.

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.

Royal TS is a simple, yet powerful tool for administrators, developers, system engineers and many other IT focused information workers that supports them in working effortless with their remote systems or management consoles.

Chrome Secure Shell is a xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome.

An alternative to PuTTY with similar functionality.

FireCMD (Fire Command) is an enhanced command line environment for Windows operating system which makes interacting with your computer both user-friendly and powerful.

FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Waterfox.

JuiceSSH is a free SSH client for Android.

Codinn SSH Tunnel is an SSH tunneling software.

ASG-Remote Desktop integrates a large variety of connection protocols, allowing you to manage Windows, Citrix, Linux/UNIX- and Macintosh systems remotely.

Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and libvte.