Comparison of SSH clients

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General

Name Developer Status First release Latest release Current version Based on License Source available
Admin Hands Admin Hands Active 2015-05 2015-05-01 1.0 Proprietary No
AbsoluteTelnet Celestial Software (Brian Pence) Active 1996 2014-01-31 9.83[1] Proprietary No
Bitvise SSH Client/Tunnelier Bitvise Active 2002-05 2016-04-05 6.47[2] Proprietary No
Cisco CLI Analyzer Cisco Systems Inc. Active 2016-03 2016-05-19 2.1.0 Proprietary No
ConnectBot Kenny Root / Jeffrey Sharkey Active 2007-11 2015-08-28 1.8.6 Apache Yes
CRAX Commander Soft4U2 Marcin Słowik Active 2013-09 2015-12-01 1.10.6 libSSH2 Proprietary Yes
DameWare SolarWinds Active 2012-11-28 Proprietary No
Dropbear Matt Johnston Active 2003-04-06 2016-03-18 2016.73 MIT Yes
JuiceSSH Sonelli Ltd Active 2012-12 2015-12-26 2.1.2 Proprietary No
MindTerm Cryptzone Active 1998-11-13 2014-02-25 Proprietary Yes
MobaXterm Mobatek Active 2008 2016-01-20 8.6 [3] OpenSSH (crypto), PuTTY (terminal emulator) and X11 server Proprietary Yes
eSSH Client Ecode Software Inactive 2002-07 Proprietary No
Private Shell Imposant Active 2003-04 2013-07-29 3.2 Proprietary No
ProxyCap Proxy Labs Active 2002 Proprietary No
FileZilla Tim Kosse Active 2001-06-22 2016-03-16 3.16.1 PuTTY GPL Yes
lsh Niels Möller Active 1999-05-23 2013-06-26 2.0.4 GPL Yes
OpenSSH The OpenBSD project Active 1999-12-01 2016-02-29 7.2 ossh BSD Yes
PACManager David Torrejón Vaquerizas Active 2010-01-01 2015-06-05 4.5.5.5 OpenSSH, Telnet, FTP, vncviewer, rdesktop, cu, remote-tty, mosh, cadaver GPL Yes
PenguiNet Silicon Circus Active 2000-03-22 2015-02-17 2.62 Proprietary No
PuTTY Simon Tatham Active 1999-01-22 2015-11-07 0.67[4] MIT Yes
Reflection for Secure IT Attachmate Active 2012-11-12 F-Secure SSH Proprietary No
Salt Maarten L. Hekkelman Active 2011-11 2015-05-12 3.4.10 Proprietary No
SecureCRT VanDyke Software Active 1998-06 2016-03-31 8.0 Proprietary No
SFTPPlus Pro:Atria Ltd Active 2005 2015-09-18 3 Twisted (software) Proprietary No
ShellCraft Fengfeng Shi Active 2015-12 2016-04-19 1.0.4 Proprietary No
SmartFTP SmartSoft Ltd Active 1998 Proprietary No
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure SSH Communications Security (former Tectia) Active 1995-07 2013-07 Own implementation in C Proprietary No
SunSSH Open Solaris Active 2001 OpenSSH 2.3 CDDL Yes
Terminals CodePlex Terminals CodePlex Project Active 2006 2015-05-07 3.6 Microsoft MS-CL Yes
Tera Term TeraTerm Project Active 2004 2016-03-05 4.90[5] TeraTerm 2.3 (1994–1998) BSD Yes
TN3270 Plus SDI USA, Inc. Active 2006 Proprietary No
Token2Shell Choung Networks Active 2008 2014-04-04 6.9.1 Proprietary No
TtyEmulator FCS Software Active 2002-05 Proprietary No
WinSCP Martin Prikryl Active 2000 2016-03-06 5.7.7 PuTTY GPL Yes
Win32-OpenSSH Microsoft Active 2015 2016-03-19 Pre-release OpenSSH & Windows PowerShell BSD Licence Yes
Xshell NetSarang Active 2015-09-25 Proprietary No
ZOC Terminal EmTec, Innovative Software Active 1995-07-01 2015-01-14 6.64 Proprietary No

Platform

The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH clients are designed to run on without emulation; there are several possibilities:

  • Partial indicates that while it works, the client lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs but may still be under development.

The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.

Name OS X Windows Cygwin BSD Linux Solaris Java OpenVMS z/OS AIX HP-UX iOS Android Maemo Windows Phone
AbsoluteTelnet No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
Bitvise SSH Client/Tunnelier No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Cisco CLI Analyzer Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No
ConnectBot No No No No No No ? ? ? No No No Yes No ?
CRAX Commander Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Dropbear Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes No Yes Yes ?
eSSH Client Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No No No No No ?
JuiceSSH No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No No
Admin Hands No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No No
lsh Yes No No Partial[Note 1]:{{{3}}} Yes Yes ? ? ? No No No No No ?
MindTerm Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No No No ?
MobaXterm No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
OpenSSH Included partial Included Included Included[Note 2]:{{{3}}} Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[Note 3]:{{{3}}} Yes[Note 4]:{{{3}}} Yes ?
Private Shell No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
PACManager No No No Partial Yes No No No No No No No No No No
PenguiNet No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
ProxyCap Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
PuTTY Partial Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No No No No No Beta[Note 5]:{{{3}}}
Salt No Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No No ?
SecureCRT Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No Yes No No ?
SFTPPlus Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No
ShellCraft Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
SmartFTP No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
SSH Tectia Client/ConnectSecure No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes[Note 6]:{{{3}}} No Yes Yes Yes No No No ?
Tera Term No Yes No No No No ? ? ? ? No No No No ?
TN3270 Plus No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
Token2Shell No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes[Note 7]:{{{3}}}
TtyEmulator No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
WinSCP No Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes[Note 3]:{{{3}}} No No ?
Xshell No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
ZOC Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No ?
Name OS X Windows Cygwin BSD Linux Solaris Java OpenVMS z/OS AIX HP-UX iOS Android Maemo Windows Phone

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Technical

Name User interface SSH1 SSH2 Additional protocols Tunneling Session
multiplexing[Note 8]:{{{3}}}		 Kerberos IPv6 Terminal SFTP/SCP Proxy client[Note 9]:{{{3}}}
TELNET rlogin Port
forwarding		 SOCKS[Note 10]:{{{3}}} VPN[Note 11]:{{{3}}}
AbsoluteTelnet GUI (multi-session,
single-window)		 Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP
Bitvise SSH Client/Tunnelier GUI and command line No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP
Dropbear command line No Yes No No Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes ?
lsh command line No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
MindTerm GUI or command Line or browser Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP;;FTP;Generic
MobaXterm GUI or command line Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5
OpenSSH command line Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ProxyCommand
PACManager GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Generic
PenguiNet GUI (multi-session,
single-window)		 Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5
Private Shell GUI or command line No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 5
ProxyCap GUI Yes Yes No No Yes No No No Yes Yes No No SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; SSH
PuTTY GUI or command line Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes[Note 12]:{{{3}}} Yes Yes Yes[Note 13]:{{{3}}} SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local
Salt GUI No Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No SSH
SFTPPlus GUI or command line No Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes No
SecureCRT GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Generic
ShellCraft GUI (multi-session,
single-window)		 Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
SmartFTP GUI (multi-session,
single-window)		 No Yes Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP
Tera Term GUI Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes SCP SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet
TN3270 Plus GUI Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No SOCKS 4
Token2Shell GUI Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP
TtyEmulator GUI or command line Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No SOCKS 4,4a, 5; HTTP Local
WinSCP GUI or command line Yes Yes No No limited [Note 14]:{{{3}}} No No No Yes Yes simple Yes SOCKS 4, 5; HTTP; Telnet; Local
Xshell TDI or command line Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SOCKS 4, 5
ZOC TDI or command line Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? No Yes Yes SCP SOCKS 4

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Features

Name Keyboard mapping Session tabs ZMODEM transfers Find text in buffer Mouse input support[Note 15]:{{{3}}} Unicode support URL hyperlinking Public key authentication Smart card support Hardware encryption FIPS 140-2 validation Scripting Shared Database
Bitvise SSH Client/Tunnelier No No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes ?
AbsoluteTelnet full Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
MindTerm No Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No
MobaXterm No Yes no, but built-in graphical SFTP client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes ?
OpenSSH ? No No ? Yes[Note 16]:{{{3}}} Yes not native[Note 17]:{{{3}}} Yes Yes[Note 18]:{{{3}}} Yes Partial[Note 19]:{{{3}}} No No
PACManager No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes ?
PenguiNet Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No No No No ?
Private Shell Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes ?
ProxyCap No No No No No Yes No Yes No No No No ?
PuTTY No No[Note 20]:{{{3}}} No No Yes Yes No[Note 21]:{{{3}}} Yes No[Note 22]:{{{3}}} No[Note 23]:{{{3}}} No No No
Salt Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No No ?
SecureCRT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
SmartFTP Partial Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes AES-NI Yes No ?
Tera Term Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
TN3270 Plus Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes No No No Yes ?
Token2Shell Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No AES-NI No Yes ?
TtyEmulator No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes ?
Xshell Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No
ZOC full Yes Yes Alt+F Yes UTF-8 Yes Yes No No No Yes ?

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See also

References

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