--- title: PuTTY Reviews meta_title: 'PuTTY Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 353 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how PuTTY works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 353 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # PuTTY Reviews **Vendor:** PuTTY **Category:** [Terminal Emulator Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/terminal-emulator) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 353 ## About PuTTY PuTTY is a free, open-source client program for the SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP network protocols, enabling users to run remote sessions on computers over a network. It is primarily developed and maintained by Simon Tatham. PuTTY is available for Windows and Unix platforms and includes an `xterm` terminal emulator. The latest version, 0.83, was released on February 8, 2025. Key Features and Functionality: - Protocol Support: PuTTY supports multiple network protocols, including SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP, allowing secure and flexible remote connections. - Cross-Platform Availability: Compatible with both Windows and Unix systems, PuTTY provides a consistent user experience across different operating environments. - Terminal Emulation: It includes an `xterm` terminal emulator, facilitating the execution of terminal-based applications on remote systems. - Security Enhancements: The latest release, version 0.83, introduces support for ML-KEM, a NIST-standardized post-quantum key exchange mechanism, enhancing security against potential future quantum computing threats. - Unicode Support: Improved Unicode support allows for the use of characters outside the Windows system code page, accommodating a broader range of languages and symbols. Primary Value and User Solutions: PuTTY addresses the need for secure, reliable, and versatile remote access to computers over a network. By supporting multiple protocols and platforms, it enables users to manage and interact with remote systems efficiently. The inclusion of advanced security features, such as post-quantum key exchange mechanisms, ensures that users' connections remain protected against evolving cybersecurity threats. Additionally, its improved Unicode support enhances usability for a global user base, accommodating diverse linguistic requirements. ## PuTTY Reviews ### 1. A Very Useful tool for network control and management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gayatri D. | Software Analyst, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The application interface is very simple and its use for network management and login to devices like switch, servers, firewall with console line operations actually makes it faster to perform once you know all the commands applicable. The tool is very powerful since it lets us to manage the network systems. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The application use is limited for windows based servers, and also it allows us to access through ssh or telnet connections with port 22 and 23, the rest of the service level activities are limited. Also command level expertise is needed for right usage. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I would recommend use of Putty application for monitoring and controlling of network devices because of its abilities in handling devices especially managed swithes, routers, firewall and Linux/Unix based systems. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Putty application we use to manage network devices activities, log the traffic analysis and monitoring, the application is quite powerful for proper management of networking devices. ### 2. Putty- tool for logging into devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** FAISAL N. | NETWORK ENGINEER, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is the tool which is used for remote connections for logging into devices like routers,switches, Servers etc. it is the best tool i have ever come across. Using this we can make changes into routers and switches. we can take backup also from these devices. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** the only disadvantage i found in putty is after a certain period of time session gets terminated. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Based upon my experience i strongly recommend others to use putty who are in networking profile . Putty is the best tool for logging into devices and for doing activities on to the devices. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty has helped me alot in my professional carrier. As i am a network engineer it helped me a lot . It is very secured . it requires login name and credentials for logging into any devices.It supports for both Linux,Windows and MAC.The best part about the putty is we can log or save the session into text format.the installation of putty is very simple and its size is almost upto 3 mb. ### 3. Terminal emulator not for enterprise-level environment **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paolo S. | Cisco Networking Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Simplicity and ease of operation, it can be executed even from USB media without installing e without root privileges, useful to quickly manage SSH resources but not suggested for a production environment, sessions can be stored but I think is hazardous to do this on a usb media **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No tiling and no multi tabbed mode, sessions data are stored in cleartext and the terminal emulator is not compatible with new Cisco networking devices\ **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create usb drive with useful sysadmin tools to share with other colleagues for quick on-the-way management operations ### 4. Excellent tool for SSH and Telnet operations over organisations network **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vidya B. | Cyber Security Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The application package is very light and quite enough powerful for easy communication over Telnet and SSH port channels, the tool is very useful for switches management with its terminal console that supports all commands and operations. It also supports command operations for Linux based servers and eases handling/management of the same. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The tool is free source and its source code is also available so no question of disliking its features and applications on the servers and switches. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** PuTTY is great tool for command level management of Switches, Servers and network devices, Firewalls with command interface over SSH and Telnet connection, the application is supported for Linux and Windows platforms and has features to set/modify the connection options. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Putty while performing assessments we use to check and setup for remote connections of the switches with our tools and accessing servers and switches with PuTTy was very easy and helpful. ### 5. Simple, complete, and free **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlo B. | Web graphic, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is an indispensable tool for those working in IT. Simple in managing and remotely controlling systems through Telnet, SSH, and rlogin. Extremely useful and above all free and well-maintained. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Nothing to say about the features, but the interface could be "updated". But it's probably intentional to give the impression of a simple tool that does its job. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to the putty server and the company's devices, they are under control. We access the necessary virtual machines for the development of our website smoothly. ### 6. Terminal emulator for daily management operations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lino B. | Senior Consultant for Energy Studio Pro Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I use PuTTY to perform quick daily management operations on Amazon EC2 resources with SSH enabled, it's a good terminal emulator to run some basic commands and the latency between command and response is very low even in high latency network such as satellite links **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No tiling or multi tabbed mode, you have to download the mtPutty to obtain the multi tabbed capability. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Perform quick operation on EC2 instances wherever I am without installing or run setups, only from an usb drive with portable putty inside it ### 7. PuTTY - for years a must-have in the system administration field **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** damiano a. | System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** PuTTY allows you to easily connect to remote machines using the SSH protocol. Thanks to its simplicity, it has been the most used tool in the open source field for years. Additionally, it is possible to save all remote connections in a single profile to have quick and immediate access to remote machines. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Some configurations are not so simple and intuitive to find. Often, it is necessary to delve into various menus to activate them. The graphical interface could be more updated and less sparse. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I recommend using PuTTY as the company standard. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized access to all Virtual Machines with SSH protocol. Unique access with public key to all remote machines. ### 8. PuTTY Review. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** A most interesting step concerning putty is this is installing as well as connecting everything to computer systems are quite straightforward. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Whenever the network doesn't really exist, putty can even be disrupted. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I could overcome the Protected Network network connectivity and allow a link among the program with the VM or such a physical computer. ### 9. Putty open source tool for act client from ssh,telnet protocol devices. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuvraj R. | Yuvaraj Redyy as Senior Software and Middle ware engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is indispensable ,ubiquitous in any administrator toolkit. It is also portable email a copy any you need it telnet ,ssh devices capable serial console application for administrating most network hardware prior configuration. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** As compared to other interface tool for connecting remost connection difficult for copy paste and intuitive.No support for scripting session and for writing a macro.amount of configuration can be overwhelming for some. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Putty is free and open terminal emulator that support many network protocol such scp,ssh,sftp. Its extreme configuration ,combined ability to save communication and also support for making raw socket connection. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It fast and reliable can not beat its price and completely free of use. has ablity to genrate keys for use within secure protocol such ssh.Managing linux machine from windows as earyly as possible. ### 10. Not bad for a 1MB executable that doesn't require setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca M. | Jr Sysadmin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** You can download PuTTY exe (1MB) and use it as a standard executable but without any type of installation, cache or storage on the current running system, is a fully portable application full of features such as sessions saving, resource inventory and a keygen utility to create key pair of public and private keys **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No advanced customization such as window / terminal size, transparency or tiling mode on portable exe version: only black background and white text, contrast too high for people with eyes diseases. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** bring on my usb drive an ssh client that does not require installation and can be used where is a windows PC even without administrator privileges (ex. friend's home or hotels internet point) ### 11. Tiny, powerful terminal app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edoardo F. | Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Is a really tiny app and has all you need to connect to most of remote machine you work with, via telnet or ssh. Is customizable, allowing you to select different ports per protocol. Last but not least: is portable! **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** For what it is, for the disk space it needs, it has nothing to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Bring it with you whereever you are. You'll need it. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** A ready to work remote connection program to bring with you. ### 12. A must have for remote terminal connections **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riccardo F. | R&D Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty has all you need to connect, with many protocols to many remote machines. Allows telnet, ssh. Is tiny and powerful.....and it's portable! **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Nothing to say in relation to what it is and what is offering. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Place it into a USB pen and bring it with you: a day, in a future, you'll need it. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've a portable tool able to connect (via terminal) to at least all remote computers i deal with during my work. ### 13. A good terminal service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Engr Umer U. | Staff Manager IT Operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It a simple but efficient terminal for accessing Network devices such as Switches, Routers etc. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Nothing to dislike in putty as it is very easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It is a nice product where you need a terminal for accessing network devices. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it in my day to day operation related to accessing network switches and routers ### 14. Easy, simple, and useful **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosario S. | system admin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The thing I like most about putty is that with a very simple tool, I can manage and handle all the servers I'm interested in with an intuitive interface. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The thing I like the least is that the graphical interface is not up to date and has not evolved in recent years. This affects the efficiency of use and the fact that it is not possible to optimize or open multiple interfaces for multitasking management. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Putty, I can manage many virtual machines via SSH on a Windows operating system without installing tools or extensions on PowerShell and with easy portability. ### 15. Putty is a open source application for remote connection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash K. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It's free and open source terminal application offers services such as serial terminal communication, SSH, TELNET, as well as secure transfers through SCP/FTP. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** When you required to script their session will be let down with putty. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used it for file transfer session such as FTP. ### 16. free and open source for Telnet and SSH is controlled with Putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is simple and easy to make the connection for telnet and ssh in any device. User can be controlled by using command in putty. It enables the dynamic port forwarding with ssh and it can also forward the X11 forwarding. It supports for multiple platforms like Windows/Linux, easy to mange because it has simplified User Interface. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Putty has short capacity to clean & control the serail devices. When end-user is connected and now end-user copy and paste it in command line interface in putty and also in remotely connected connection. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Best tool for tool for accessing the specific ports in console for Linux/Windows. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty is fast and reliable to check the port access and also checks for login credentials of the network devices for investigation of network level scan on the system. This tool enables user can connect to particular port and that port is easily accessible ### 17. Experience sw remote access using the terminal emulator Putty **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oscar Z. | Network engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The network equipment that we manage in the Oceanica insurance company is configured through a console interface, for the configurations of the equipment it can be done in configuration with 4 console cable or remote access with the SSH or telnet protocol, for these access is necessary a terminal emulation software like Putty is. Putty is the most used terminal emulator software for network administrators to access the equipment either by console cable or by remote access via telnet or SSH. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** What I dislike about the putty software is its basic application, it has no access storage, it is a tool to access the very basic equipment, it is a basic access tool. But outside of that it is very useful I have not had any problem when accessing the equipment, the response time is quite good and in the configuration it is very useful for the access to the network equipment. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of putty, it has helped me to make prevention or correction configurations to the network equipment of the company through the accesses previously configured. ### 18. Good terminal emulator **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francesco T. | Cisco networking instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I use putty to manage cisco networking devices of our customers, is very lightweight and can be runned standalone from the executable without setup or any type of files / log on local hard drive **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No support of old RSA keys used by some Cisco Catalyst legacy switches **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage customers networking devices to troubleshoot networking problems on the go while I'm away from desk with ssh session manager ### 19. The best of standalone terminal emulators **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** enrico b. | Cisco consultant intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Sessions saving with automated pubkey authentication and the utility puttygen (to generate a new set of private and pubkey) make PuTTY the best standalone terminal emulators for sysadmins that prefer to use windows instead of unix systems **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Customization options are very poor, no soft color scheme is available to calm eye fatigue, contrast is too high but a new color scheme can be easily created with custom colors **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can be ran standalon from a usb drive or a network storage, this capability make it useful in environments where there is no internet connection or administrator account credentials to run setups or other ssh clients ### 20. A Powerful tool for managing network devices Easily **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janavi P. | Lead Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is very light application can be installed in no time and run at ease with no starting delay or whatsoever. Also the tool is very powerful for connecting systems and devices over port connection, SSH or Telnet or FTP, the remote Linux or Unix servers can be connected with this tool and even root level operations can be performed on them. Also administering network devices like switches and routers is feasible with use of PuTTy. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The application is abundantly useful in equivalence to its size and resource usage or light weight feature, though its interface is command level only after the connection with the remote system, that means you need to be familiar with commands for each use, and commit no mistakes while doing so. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** PuTTy is an awesome handson tool for managing network devices and servers of Linux or Unix based system and Windows Remote with just port access and over secure environment. You can also save your configuration settings after login work and make your work easy. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** PuTTy can be used for even checking credentials and uptime of a user access in the Linux or Unix based system via port 22 SSH communication, we used this tool for getting the login to admin user to run server operations and grep files into the remote servers. Its application is lot of help for our team. ### 21. excellent option to connect remotely to network equipment, servers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hender Alberto Z. | Consultor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** is a lightweight tool, it can be used without installing it, to connect simply enter the ip and the type of connection (serial, ssh, telnet) and proceed to establish the connection, you also have the option of logging to save the entire session in a text file, you can change the appearance of the window **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** when you are connected, the copy and paste option does not work as well as in other remote connection clients, it should be more intuitive in some options, otherwise it's fine **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** totally recommended, it is an option to consider for the technical team that needs to give support and remote administration **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a solid option for remote connections to any computer, PC or network element, it is easy to use and lightweight, it also does not need to be installed ### 22. ssh client for remote connections **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph G. | Consultor técnico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** putty is a client for remote connections, it supports ssh (it is the option that I use the most), telnet, serial (to connect to the console ports), it is very simple and easy to use, it offers the possibility of saving sessions in a file .log we can configure according to our needs, you can also customize the terminal interface. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** the interface has some problems when you copy and paste the commands, but after getting used to it it stops being a difficulty **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It is a very useful option for remote connections, I recommend **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a free and easy to use application, it is a good option to connect ### 23. PuTTY;a free implementation of SSH **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is a popular tool for text-based communication and is also a popular utility for connecting Linux servers from Microsoft operating system-based computers.The best part is that it is full featured, stable and its terminal emulation is good.It basic motive is to become a multi-platform application capable of executing in most operating systems.It can be considered like an xterm terminal for most purposes. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It has been two decades after the existence of this software,but till now there has been no official release.Despite the maturity of PuTTY, it is not billing itself as Version 1.Its graphic aspect should also be taken into consideration.No Scripting facility is provided with this software.Anyone who needs to script a session will be disappointed with PuTTY. Number of configuration options feels a bit problematic when anyone first visualizes it.. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** A very useful tool and a free implementation of this software is helpful in various aspects of information technology **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** When working remotely,it provides some distinct advantages.It has an easy-to-use graphical user interface as many of its variations on the secure remote terminal are supported by PuTTY. Some terminal control sequences are unsupported by xterm,for example;Linux console sequences.Such terminal control sequences are supported by PuTTY so it becomes very useful at certain times compared to others tools. ### 24. Freeware product for the application of SSH and Telnet **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty provides the connection such as FTP, Telnet, SSH. me found it vastly feasible & facile to perform and it's vastly safe to use it for remote connection. Device can be controlled by the commands. It's can be used in windows operating systems and Linux operating systems. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Ui of the putty software needs to extra convenient and simplified to use it for remote connection. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Open source tool for remote connection and you can use it in windows and Linux operating systems. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Usually used for connecting to remote servers by begin the session and it enables to execute the commands. Putty also accessible in Android mobile to manage the remote the connection vastly facile. ### 25. Easy terminal to any Linux Box using Putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a light-weight and the most used software by computer engineers. If you work on Linux box daily and access multiple systems at once, this software is a life saver for you. Below are some greatest pros of this software: 1. No lag: The software does not give any lag when being operated. No matter if you have low internet speed, Putty will never disappoint you. 2. Multiple windows simultaneously: It allows to connect to multiple systems via multiple terminal windows, i.e. you can connect to multiple systems and work on them simultaneously right from you computer system. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The GUI of this software haven't undergone any changes since it has been out in the market, With a little more colours and animations, this software can become more intuitive and user friendly. So I would definitely suggest some changes in the GUI of this software. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** If you are using a number of Linux boxes at once, I would definitely recommend you to use this software. This will ease out your everyday operations and help you skip the manual process to opening each machine and working on it and then booting the other one. You can have multiple terminals open all at one screen and work on all the systems simultaneously. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work on multiple Linux systems for development purposes. This tool helped me multitask within multiple systems and run my code on any machine all at once all from my base machine. It helps in increasing your efficiency to a very great extent. ### 26. Indispensable tool for remote managing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** In a "small" application you have what you need for control remotely systems. The portable version is very useful because is not needed to install it. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Since it is a very simple application, I didn't find any negative aspects, it does what it has to do without complications. The graphics could be improved while maintaining the lightness of the application. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It works with several protocols and it is free ! **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very useful for remote control of network devices, VMs that work through different protocols ### 27. Indispensabile remote terminal tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ciro E. | IT consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Allows to connect easily to a target in a secure and reliable way using several protocols. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Modifying multiple connections simultaneously is not possible. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Is free, is robust and is the best SSH, telnet and rlogin client since years **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily managing remotely VMs and devices trough SSH ### 28. ssh and telnet in control with putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan D. | I am a great administrator of Cisco under the devices of this company, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty I like it because it's a too basic and general tool to make ssh and telnet connections to any device you want. Just like you can connect and have control of a management device such as a server or some device that is control by command. This tool is too light for my taste, you can have it as portable anywhere you want. Every time you need to connect to a device quickly. This is the most necessary tool. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The only thing I do not like about the tool is that it does not bring features as advanced as other ssh connection programs. Similarly, the tool does not have features such as tagging and command control. It does not have as much functionality and determination to have under control the power to handle any device **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I recommend this tool to connect in an immediate and basic way to an ssh or telnet management device and to have a good and controlled managemen **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved infinities of times connection of emergencies, such as connecting to a device by ssh or telnet. To get the company out of trouble as a lost packet in the network. This tool has helped me to connect very quickly ### 29. Fast portable ssh client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiziano D. | Senior IOT specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Fast connection to ssh and even serial clients, I use it for raspberry pi and it negotiates a very high transmission rate **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No support to old ssh rsa keys, some legacy devices can not be managed via ssh with putty, only telnet **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Use mtputty version to support multi tabbed and tiles mode **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have to quickly manage raspberry pi gateways with custom iot application from developers notebook which does not have any ssh client installed, I usually execute portable version to accomplish this ### 30. My journey with putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The installation process pf puttt is simple and pretty much straight forward, mostly used to connect servers and network devices, user based rights can be easily assigned, remote servers across the network can be easily connected with end point address, the connections made through putty are secured **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It is very traditional kind of software which has a old kinda UI, as long as it serves the purpose of remote connections I believe the UI is not the thing of note, nothing much as dislike **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is a freeware app we use it to make remote connections over networks using ssh, it helps to maintain the security while making any ssh connections that increases the trust to adopt it for performing more remote connection operations ### 31. PuTTY The remote link that I need **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** beizabeth s. | senior civil engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty a tool very well developed and carried out to carry out the links remotely in relation to the use of open codes and Telnet, SSH, Serial, gives me a great amplitude in relation to the remote use for connectivity since we have several clients in different states and I do not have to move to these sites when I can putty with putty, this produces a reduction in cost to companies, the other thing I like is their security system that is constantly updated and that is confidence for the company its configuration is very simple and if you are a beginner you will not have much problem in identifying your panels because they are very simple. I can work with several operating systems on the market and it adapts very easily and I like that. The creators of this software have several years in the market and that a huge support for those who use it. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Actually talking about parts that displease would not be the right thing to do, we could talk about suggestions that could be taken into account to make the tool more user friendly and in this we could say that we change their presentation as they are not very worried and the visual part is not less important, put more clear tabs to identify to get what we want. Sometimes other applications are needed to reform the connections but the package has them, the ideal would be to integrate them all and present them in only one would give a more robust impression of the tool. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** The recommendation is that you do not think much about what tool to use for my remote connections. Putty is the solution you need and you have varieties of fixed and portable versions. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reality is that putty has helped me to solve remote connection problems no matter where you are in the distance I could super inconvenient that if I had to go to the sites would be very expensive and would not represent the expense, to others it is a free tool and in constant renewal. I can make connections through any device that I have on hand from a fixed or portable scythe PC like tablet or smarphont, this is a huge advantage. ### 32. Best tool for SSH connection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmelo L. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Minimal interface for maximum yield. Easy to use for SSH connection with remote/local servers. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Some configurations are "hidden" inside the various menus. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralize the SSH connection for our Linux VMs in PuTTY. Even the shared key is easy to use for. ### 33. Best secure remote terminal software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giovanni R. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Centralizes secure remote terminal connections into a single program. Save sessions with private keys. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Many configurations are in depth of the software menus. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizes secure remote terminal connections for internal Linux VMs. Able to use SSH key in Windows environment. ### 34. Ready to leave the field **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina S. | Prêt à sortir du terrain, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** This also allows me to securely connect to remote servers, except for the ability to transfer files via SFTP and SCP. This tool has been used in my company to gain access to remote machines via SSH and Telnet. It is very fundamental, a pleasant SSH client for the user that allows executing commands somewhat like the terminals on MacOS and Linux. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** In fact, I don't see any visible difference after using this device, changing and recording certain settings such as font appearance have become non-intuitive. There are different times when I type with the wrong username and I have to restart the entire software. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Try, if you do a lot of work in the terminal, you might not reach the bottom of the page anymore. Try, if you do paintings in the terminal, if you need commands and IP addresses of your switches to apply it. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is the free and open sourcing tool that everyone can use. Database maintenance can be executed using this tool. It is a safe and fast alternative, without wasting time or money on programs that do not fulfill this function. ### 35. Good SSH and Telnet client **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wolfgang S. | Bon client SSH et Telnet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a great SSH, Telnet, or serial client. It is free and open-source. You can also download memory cards. It is a very comprehensive software that offers us great flexibility with some alternatives, allowing its users to stay informed because they generally use improvements and consistent development. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The interface is an advanced piece for beginner users and sometimes it takes a certain amount of time to discover something. Authorization is an abstract piece because it does not have an interface to facilitate its use for the person who finds it difficult to enter or start using this software, but it is something for which a programmer must be organized. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Finally, it is an unblocked software, few software offer so many advantages for free. I could propose to apply this tool daily, according to your wishes, to gain access to Linux machines via Telnet, SCP, and SSH. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access my servers so quickly without configuring anything and simply type the server's IP address or domain and the port so it can be easily inserted into the console. I like this application because it allows you to join exclusive operating systems on your server. I find it very beneficial; I use it almost every day to access a Unix field, schedule jobs, and check activity logs executed under Unix. ### 36. A top-notch remote control gains entry rights to the client. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed S. | Rend PHP cool à nouveau, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** PuTTY records all the devices you have already accessed and has a robust set of settings and options. PuTTY is a simple and smooth tool for accessing Linux machines via SSH and TELNET. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Start windows has some shortcomings such as appearance customization, as there are not yet different versions. There are cases where there can be an excess of statistics and where the computer device can be very stuck, which significantly influences the ability to examine the gadgets you need. This is excluded because in order to see several gadgets at the same time, PuTTY calls on each one to start a session, resulting in many log files being generated to help you verify your facts for later analysis. Appearance customization is visible, as if it were currently in the following versions. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** We recommend using this device regularly, according to your wishes to adopt statistics on SSH and Telnet journeys. I would recommend using this device in the usual way, according to your desire to gain access to Linux machines via Telnet, SCP, and SSH. Try it, if you do a lot of work in the terminal, you can't look inferior. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** In particular, tasks where you have to browse servers and search for documents can be much simpler than with Putty. The observed advantages are associated with resolving a number of bugs for my company's solution platform. ### 37. Putty review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a good tool for remote connections of machines and servers using the ssh and telnet protocols.It is very secure and very responsive and fast way to check server logs for all the services used in an application. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** I feel that the features need to be upgraded as it has very basic and specific features like storing server logs and remote connections. The user experience and interface has also not been upgraded for the last so many years. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great tool to store and collect server logs for the back end services that are triggered by our applications and has good connectivity compatibility with different systems. ### 38. The best terminal programs for Windows systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranusika G. | Associate Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a freely available and straightforward client to use. It supports telnet, ssh, and serial logins. It also can be used for file transfer. Easy to use. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** We cannot use scripts with the Putty. We have to use another product for that. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty is one of the best terminal programs for Windows. We use Putty as telnet and SSH clients to access servers, switches remotely Using SSH secure connection, we can access our devices securely. ### 39. Good remote administrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Tomas P. | Lo mejor y peor de notepad++, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is a fairly simple program and does not require much additional configuration after installing and running it. Putty is excellent for connecting to a network system and also to FTP sites. It is a lightweight open-source program. What I really like is the great distance at which I can easily connect to another server like Linux, for example, when I am operating and need to make a commitment there. The configuration became quite simple and the program was very easy to use. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** While it may be easy to use and understand, sometimes certain factors can become complicated, but with time, it ends up being easy to use. The user interface is asking for an aesthetic change as it is not very pleasant to use. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It is simply a perfect program for transferring files from one site to another, plus it is a free program and very easy to use, you really can't ask for more. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to connect our machines to various servers and transfer/move files from one location to another in a fast and simple way. ### 40. Best Application for SSH **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2020 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** We can SSH the hardware like Raspberry Pi. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The main constraint with putty is that we cannot got the output like images stored in hardware like Raspberry Pi that we SSH with our system itself **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** As per Recommendations, I will recommend others developers and may be engineers to use it as SSH **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty Solves our problem of getting data even with the range and it provide good client server relationship and also help to generate the self signed certificate ### 41. Managing devices with Putty **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chechu G. | Administrando dispositivos con Putty, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** - It is easy to use and has a simple interface. It is highly configurable and can also perform secure file transfers via SFTP and SCP. It is a very useful tool for managing network devices, not only these devices but also the servers running the ssh or telnet service. It is easy to use and has two versions, the most practical is the portable one, personally, it is the one I like the most and use more because it is very practical, it can be run and we will only have to choose the Protocol and where we want to connect, and we will have our connection established. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** - There is no option to write macros and some of the protocols Little improvement in appearance and interface It is really simple, therefore, it has very few options **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It can be difficult to use for complex connections, but the general use is quite simple. I would recommend using this tool, as it provides a very straightforward and easy way to access machines via SSH and Telnet. If you need to access a server's CLI from outside the office, this might be the best option for being so quick and easy to set up on any PC. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Facilitate connections to the servers and from anywhere in the company. This is an open-source and free tool for anyone to use. Working on a codebase that is not local. ### 42. An excellent remote access client **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benja G. | An excellent remote access client, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Finally, I like that it contains several types of connections such as Telnet, SSH, Serial, among others. What it does, it does well. PuTTY allows local, remote, or dynamic port forwarding with SSH, including X11 forwarding. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Perhaps because it is so simple, it lacks some features that other products on the market do offer, which make the work easier when connections are repetitive and constant to different devices. There are other times when I type in the wrong username and I have to restart the whole application. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Try it; if you do a lot of work in the terminal, it might not seem less. I love it, and it makes life easy, especially when you need to copy and paste screen output. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our system can manage files, move between different directories of sites and web stores, and execute necessary commands to update, clear cache, and activate or deactivate modules. The main benefit I get is the ability to connect remotely to the consoles of network devices that I have to manage remotely. This task takes up a lot of my working day, so it is vital that the connection is stable and secure, which is why I use SSH. Database maintenance can be done using this tool. ### 43. BEST TERMINAL TOOL **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a great terminal emulator tool and work as a console as well which helps in transferring files using various protocols such as SSH.Telnet,rlogin etc. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Somtimes when user are too many on it then it denies the access to it which makes troubleshooting gradually slow and gets closed automatically sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** great tool for monitoring **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty has been adding various features eventually which hwill help in future. ### 44. Putty my best safe and reliable connection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** carl s. | superior technician in remote systems, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is a software that uses open code very practical to use in remote or local connections, uses different protocols and connections among which the most used are, SSH, Telnet and Serial. Although at the beginning it was used for window its updates of versions has made possible that we can work with linux and other systems which opened a better opportunity for me, it is very easy to use it is of very good quality and we can make connections with mobile equipment without any kind of problem, always stays at the forefront of updates. One of the many functions that I have and I like very much is that when making connections with routers, firewall servers I can do it without any problem and finally I can say that the graphics they present are easy to understand, I really like it. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Actually I can not say negative points because the tool has been vast pratical could have some small difficulties but there are applications of the same puttin that solve the problem and as it says everything is at home. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I can recommend this software widely to want to make remote connections and through android is easy to make very safe and easy to interpret the graphics, if you make more complex connections you must keep track but I consider a good option **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actually I make fast connections from the main servers without any kind of problem, although I always use the versions for android that I have been super useful or with the tablets as well as the portable version on an external hard drive. ### 45. Easy to use open source terminal emulator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renjith M. | IT Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Easy to configure servers and it enables SSH which is secure and encrypted. Since it supports most of the linux commands as well, it is easy to learn the commands **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It is time consuming to start a duplicate session as we need to enter the credentials and need to authenticate repeatedly. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Several scripts are running through PuTTY and used for refreshing the development environments as well as to start/stop application servers ### 46. PuTTy tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2020 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The best thing about puTTy is that it is very easy to download and easy to connect with client servers. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The thing which i don't like about puTTy is that it crashes so frequently and cann't open multiple tabs **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** PuTTy Helps to connect to the remote servers easily with just the host name and the port numbers. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using it for connecting with client servers. ### 47. A must have for any system administrator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** PuTTY es esencial para cualquier administrador de sistemas. Soporta varios tipos de autenticación (contraseña, claves privadas, etc.) así como tener un montón de buenas características (proxy a través de SSH, redirección de puertos, etc.) **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Nothing, Putty is really good. Maybe having a multi-server administration would be a cool feature. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With putty I can manage Linux servers in my organization in a secure way. Instead of using passwords, we now use only certificate-based authentication, which makes it easy (and secure) to login into servers. ### 48. Putty is the best terminal access client **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty enables you to ssh and telnet to all devices seamlessly and securely. It also enables u to connect to multiple devices at a time and also log the sessions is great to have too **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Sometimes you have to manually add the baud rate information to securely connect to devices . The one thing I dislike is you have to open different windows to connect to different devices unlike super putty **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Putty is great if I are starting person in IS division **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily transferrable to different devices. Helps when I are working with remote person using Skype or teamviewer ### 49. Made for accessing remote servers and computers **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Poojitha N. | Poojitha Naik , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It supports most of the network protocols and file transfer protocols. SafeFTP helps in transferring files from one server to another server. Time taken for FTP is very less which is the advantage of PuTTY. It uses very low resources and pretty quick in terms of connecting to the server. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Since it is using command line interface it makes it obsolete and difficult to use. One ha to know the basic to complex command to use this application, and regular updates are not available. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Please learn all basic commands to use this command line interface tool **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever we need to access files from another server and remote computer it makes it very easy to access. ### 50. Best SSH Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2020 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** We can connect our hardware device and virtual machine with our system by its IP address **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Putty can interrupted whenever the connectivity will not there **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I will recommend others to use Putty **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can solve the problem of Secured Shell connection and make a client-server relationalship between our system and Virtual machine or any hardware device ## PuTTY Discussions - [Kindly help me in understanding SSH port Forwarding which is in Putty as Tunnel](https://www.g2.com/discussions/kindly-help-me-in-understanding-ssh-port-forwarding-which-is-in-putty-as-tunnel) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [I am wondering about using putty for a few purposes, can you help?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50215-i-am-wondering-about-using-putty-for-a-few-purposes-can-you-help) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [how can i save password for the session in putty](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-save-password-for-the-session-in-putty) - 5 comments, 1 upvote - [What is PuTTY used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-putty-used-for) - 1 comment - [View PuTTY pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/putty/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-17+08%3A39%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f80f11f6-7552-47be-a937-bef7569737ba&secure%5Btoken%5D=892b6a9fdd88934c9537bf5634f8ac199c736fa73126dfec15d5b28821076292&format=llm_user) ## PuTTY Features **Performance** - Plugins - Resource Usage - Latency **Operating System** - Linux Support - Windows Support - Mac Support - Unix Support **User Interface** - Scrolling - Customization - Logging - Command-line interface **Licensing ** - Concurrent Licensing - Subscription Licensing - Named User Licensing - Perpetual Licensing **Security** - Multifactor Authentication (MFA) - Secure Sockets Layer encryption - Portal Access - SAML Service Provider Integration **Functionality** - Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - Replication ## Top PuTTY Alternatives - [MobaXTerm](https://www.g2.com/products/mobaxterm/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (102 reviews) - [SecureCRT](https://www.g2.com/products/securecrt/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (53 reviews) - [TeraTerm](https://www.g2.com/products/teraterm/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (18 reviews)