--- 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. Very good networking tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahemad H. | System Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Easy tool to connect networking devices with up address configuration and connectivity, helped for communication and controls. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The application is very reliable but sometimes keeps crashing due to multiple connection or longer inconnectivies. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Putty is great tool for getting job done with good interface and reliable networking abilities. Helped a lot to control switches, routers of the division. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** With putty we use to handle multiple network devices in our previous organization server area. ### 2. PuTTY is the topmost tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasanna G. | RPA developer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** PuTTy is the best application for remote connections and you can connect telnet and ssh connection through putty. It supports for windows and Linux platform. You can control the device with the assist of CLI which is.acessiable in putty. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Nothing dislikes on putty as per my experience of the putty application. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** PuTTY best application **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** with help CLI we can connect and control the device. ### 3. Putty- To manage Remote servers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** With putty we can admin the remote servers easily, the remote connections made through putty are safe and secure, as putty works on ssh and telnet protocols which means the connections are strong and works perfectly, also the remote servers can be configured for tunneling the network connections **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The newbies need prior ides about the user interface before connecting any remote devices, the inteface is simple but not advanced in terms of easiness and usability **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically, to connect remote devices in-network with the help of putty, It works best if the admin is aware of choosing the telnet and ssh for tunneling and connections ### 4. Easy tool to manage via SSH Linux and Windows virtual machines **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlo T. | System specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The integrated utility to the generate private and public key is very useful on Windows machine without this native feature **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** No Multi tabbed mode, mtPutty need to be downloaded and installed if you want tiles mode **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage with a single click dozens of saved SSH session (and related login credentials) ### 5. best software for remote access. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Using this software we can remote access to routers and switches.This software can be used on windows as well as on linux platform.It supports SSH and Telnet through which we can access and also manage the devices.It also has many other services besides SSh and Telnet.Biggest advantage is that it is open source. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Basically no issue but sometimes it becomes hard to access the devices. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Best software for remote accessing and is open source **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clients facing problem regarding Internet are solved by accessing the core router and switches which are in the back-end. ### 6. 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?** It is good network protocol medium to SSH the hardware devices with our system **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Putty sometimes got disable even with nice connections **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I will recommend others to use Putty as SSH Tool **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty will provide the best way to SSH the virtual machines with our systems ### 7. Fastest and Simpliest SSH, telnet, and many other protocols conection program ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo Eduardo S. | Independent Business Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I love that its old school, with simple User Interface. The way i can connect, save profiles, edit profiles, etc. It supports also RSA keys. so i dont have to save or wirte any password ever again. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** I think i dont dislike anything. This program is simple, works grear, is fast and easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** You should really try this program. Its really easy and fast connecting to any ssh server. You can set connections profiles and after that you will connect with only 1 click. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im connecting to my dev servers through SSH protocol. Console is great, is fast, never get stacked. ### 8. Good terminal emulator for quick operations **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Massimo C. | Senior network engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Portable version can be executed without install, putty keygen is a good alternative for ssh keygen on linux **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Too limited in customization and session management **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Execute quick commands and operations on resources and VMs after first configuration without importing all in other professional tools ### 9. A Nice Remote Access Client Software For Connecting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit Y. | Engineer - Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I Like it because it is very Easy to use. it is freely and open source application. it works in windows and linux operatig system. it is lightweight application. you can connect with aws very easily. its interface is also good. you can connect to any machine using it. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** it does not have community support for beginner. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am using it for connect to client for many types of works,solving bugs,tracking issue etc; ### 10. Does the job **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Did the work for me. It was my first time using software like this. Training was simple. Just a matter of remembering commands at least I thought. Backspace became my best friend. Backspace goes through a room by action. Perfect. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** I can't think of anything. It's pretty clear cut once you know what your doing. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im able to do group updates over the air at once. Quickly updates firmware ### 11. remote connection application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amilcar S. | consulting engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** putty is a remote, lightweight, portable and free connection tool, easy to use with ssh support, you can customize the command window and capture sessions in a text file **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** copying and pasting commands in the window is not very intuitive and is annoying and confusing **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to connect remotely to the equipment managed by the company, via ssh, it has the advantage over other programs that is free and portable ### 12. Putty review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is a great network to tranfser those files and supports many other networks while using. I love the fact that it has that remote access to other devices. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It is hard to say what I dislike about this software but maybe I would just make sure no viruses get stuck **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits that I have realized is that the remote access to the software is great. ### 13. Superb platform to connect to remote machines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** We can connect to number of devices remotely through port access, with default configuration it works fine does not require the customisation to connect to networks, it is small software which acquires a very less space to be into local system, the file transfer through scp and sftp is simple and secured **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It is still having a old type UI but it does what is needed for remote connections and file trasfer through scp and other protocols that is pretty much what is needed, way to go putty nothing in specific as dislikes **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** To connect to the remote machines over several remote networks, to transfer files, to customise configurations over remote networks ### 14. Putty Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** good way to easy connect to remote terminals. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** i don't like very much all plugins, i want to keep it simple. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of access my servers in ssh, and logging. ### 15. administration with Putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonart M. | Ingeniero en Redes e Implementacion, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** is a device manager that uses protocols such as Telnet and SSH and / or console which offers connect to devices such as Router, Switch and servers that handle these protocols, it is simple to use the tool but useful. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** what I dislike about this product is that it is not practical, sessions are closed or stuck on several occasions. but the rest is a good program to manage devices. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** This tool is recommended because it is a simple administration manager, easy to use, you can install or have the portable version of the tool so that in special cases you have it on hand in a pendriver or external memory. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is used in certain occasions to administer network devices such as router and switch, and other times servers. ### 16. very good virtual terminal for remote connections **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonel C. | Consultor de proyectos, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** is a very useful tool for making remote connections to network equipment, servers, etc. It's free, reliable, portable and lightweight. Supports serial communication, ssh, telnet **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** the wide variety of configuration options can be a bit overwhelming when you start using the program **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** totally recommended, it is one of the best options for remote connections with various protocols **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** is an indispensable tool to connect remotely to routers, switches and other network elements, it is portable, lightweight and reliable ### 17. Admin your remote servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Carlos G. | software developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It makes life easier for you to connect to your remote servers in order to admin then. It's highly configurable and you can save all your sessions to use next time you need. Also, it supports secure connections and it's easy to configure with your private key file for the authentication. A great feature I like it's the way to configure tunnelings with the remote server in order to use in your own computer. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The interface is a bit advanced for the begginer users and sometimes it takes a time to find something. Also, there is no way to share or make a backup of saved sessions, you have to go to the Windows registry and get it from there. Finally, it hasn't a tabbed interface, you have to open a new Putty if you want to open another session. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It takes time to catch up but its worth. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Unix servers without a GUI so I need to open a secure connection, I use that software every day to admin my remote servers: production, staging, integration... ### 18. review regarding putty **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yagayshar M K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** easy to connect remotely via ssh and protocols in the administration of remote connection devices to server. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** putty does not permit for multiple connection to begin the environments via ssh. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** putty is an excellent tool. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** to connect with remote environments with the assist of putty. ### 19. Putty the remote machine connecto **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a light weight tool that helps to connect machine under any network to connect them remotely, putty is secured and easy to use tool and allows multiple connections at a time and user can save the remote machine addresses in order to connect later to the same machines **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The user interface is not much interactive and connections fails due to non synchronisation of remote machines **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** To connect to remote environments and networks, to connect any type of network and to save addresses of remote machines ### 20. Putty- Remote Administrator for networks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty allows us to connect to remote servers with the help of SSH, telnet and serial, we can save the remote sessions with the help of putty, we can also transmit the files using putty **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Putty is not much user-friendly application but does the required job of remote connections and file transmitting through ssh and telnet **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connect to remote machines environments through putty, also external servers can be connected through putty ### 21. Putty - Remote connections and file transfer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty enables remote connections to any network, allowing for fast and secure file sharing. Frequently visited networks can be saved in the Putty console. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** All the networks can be connected manually through remote connections, and to launch environments remotely, there is no option to automate the remote connections. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** To transfer files, make remote connections to environments in different networks, and launch environments, it is overall the best tool to connect to remote networks. ### 22. Great tool for remote connections over a network **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is small tool with a very limited usage of making remote connections, it communicates within the network through Telnet protocol to create remote connections, the connections can be save and edited, the UI is very simple and useful. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The limited functionality of Putty its main usage is to establish connection remotely, The tool is not much updated with current technologies **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connections within a network, to add remote machines through Putty, ### 23. Free and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Great client for ssh and telnet. Simple and quick setup. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** UI is old and plain. Except this nothing to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Portable application. No need of installation. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We transfer huge file files through unix and window machines ### 24. Simple but beneficial SSH client **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordi S. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The software is quite simple 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 software. It's fine. What I really like about it is that I can easily connect to another server like Linux, for example, when I'm operating and need to make a commitment there. The setup became quite simple and the software was very easy to use. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** You cannot simply right-click on the PuTTY icon and close all open sessions. While it may be easy to use and understand, there are certain factors that can become complicated. The user interface is asking for a date snippet, but it is clear and functional, so this is just an aesthetic issue. It seems that utility instances are a form of disruption. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Creation of the SSH tunnel when I need to perform tests with other origins or avoid restrictions. I defend it one hundred percent because it is a very beneficial tool within a commercial company and it is really easy to set up. But if you choose a lightweight and fast connectivity tool, PuTTY is the way to go. Try it, in case you do a lot of work in the terminal, you might not seem lower. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple and possible interface My team has observed recently that we will allow the SSH shell within the configuration of a VMware host and issue commands and replace them that way. While they support me, keep track of all the connections I make. Connections with external hosts. It is a safe and fast alternative, without wasting time or money on applications that do not fulfill the function. My group recently determined that we can allow SSH shell within the configuration for a VMware host and issue commands and update it that way. I have no idea how I would carry out these responsibilities without the use of such an effective and hassle-free tool. ### 25. Putty the best app for remote connectivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The simplicity of app to serve the purpose of establishing remote connections, putty being an oldest tool with ssh and telnet protocol utilization for remote connectivity is still compatible with current networks to create connections **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The user interface of putty is quite oldish and does not allow multiple connections to launch the environments through ssh **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** For launching remote environments with the help of putty launcher ### 26. Putty is a free tool for the implementation of ssh and telnet **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It gives the simplified interface to configure switches else anything you required to connect with the serial connection sshl/telnet. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It should have bit more features in putty tool for remote connection. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It's Free tool, you must try it. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putty is helpful for remote connection for instance if you want to access the account on a unix/multi-user operating system from a desktop. ### 27. Review for Putty **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** it is a tool truly suitable for quickly connecting via ssh to virtual servers **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** In my opinion, the product is extremely functional, I find no negative aspects. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of use for access to terminals. The logging feature is very convenient. ### 28. Putty Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** This is best for taking SSH Connection using private and public key. Best and easy to use and its very secure. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** in one session you cannot open more than one tab. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** use it to ssh connections **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** taking ssh remote connection. ### 29. PuTTY!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** very fast and practical system for SSH connections to various machines. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** practically nothing... fast, practical, efficient. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed and practicality in establishing connections on port 22 to our servers. ### 30. My experience with putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is great light weight tool to connect devices across network remotely it uses ssh and telnet to establish connections, it is oldest and most preferred tool in the market **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Putty being an oldest tool there is not kuch upgrade seen, it continuous to provide only selective services **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote connections over a network using putty ### 31. Review for Putty **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** easiest tool for connectin remote sessions to my servers **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** when communication crashes sometimes the UI freezes **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** great tool to connect via SSH tu multiple servers with low latency. Multi OS support is very helpful. ### 32. The best ssh and telnet client and very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alcides Daniel M. | Desarrollador WEB, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** It is a very convenient tool to use, since it requires few steps to connect to a remote server and to be able to manage the files you need at the moment you need it, it is a CLI command line interface very used for its simplicity and security since connecting to a router to configure it or to another system to execute commands that allow to install or configure third programs, I like it because I can use it in both windows and in Linux apart from being software is in constant development simply a great tool **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It is a bit abstract since it does not have an interface that allows it to facilitate even more its use to the user which makes it a little difficult to enter or start using this software, but it is something for which a programmer must be prepared **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** It is a good option to introduce yourself in this environment and thus learn about the commands and configurations needed on an SSH client and then move on to a more powerful option **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our company we work with a programming framework based on the PHP language called Magento in its version number 2 which is advisable to manage through ssh reason why we started using this software to access the remote server where the files are located. our system and this be able to manage the files, moving between the different directories of the sites and WEB stores and also executing the necessary commands to update, clean cache, activate and deactivate modules ### 33. Putty for remote connections **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Using to nake remote connections to other machines over a network, simple to use light weight application, it is fast and secured **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The user interface of putty needs some tuning, still it serves the purpose of making remote connections it is the oldest and known tool **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** To make remote connections over a network ### 34. review for Putty **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** it's the easiest way to connect to terminals **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** the mac support is not the same as per windows **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of use in terminal connecting via ssh, plugins are very helpful ### 35. PuTTY Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** it's the easiest way to emulate terminal **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** the user interface could be improved a little **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of use in connecting via ssh and in emulating terminals in general from remote PCs. ### 36. PuTTY Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** easy way to immediately connect via termina to you servers **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Logging feature can be improved and enhanced **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of access in managing ssh sessions with your VMs ### 37. putty Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Easy to use. User friendly console, easy to manage. fast and steady **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** you cannot open another tab on one console. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** use it for remote connection. like ssh **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking SSH connection ### 38. Remote connections with putty **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is open-source application mainly used for making remote connections, it communicates with network via ssh or telnet protocols, puttt establishes secure connections **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** There is no option to establish automation of connections through puttt **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** To connect to remote machine or making out remote connections from anywhere ### 39. Free open sourceTerminal Emulator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a free open source terminal used for serial,Scp,ssh,telnet,rlogin connection. The ease of access and logging is one of the best feature. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Frequent disconnects and tagging, command control is the biggest disadvantage of this tool **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** This is the best tool for command line terminals. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this tool almost everyday for connecting to Linux servers and switches.this is also helpful in serial console of switches. ### 40. Simple and effective tool to connect via SSH to other servers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juanfran G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is a simple tool for connecting via SSH, Telnet, among others. Putty does not have the option to remember the password, which makes it somewhat more secure, so that other people who connect on the same computer are not able to connect to the server. It is free and open-source, very lightweight as well as fast, in addition to doing its job well. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The poor quality and old-school user interface is off-putting because it is free, and the capability it provides outweighs the deficiencies of the interface. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Just keep in mind selecting to copy and logging out. Also, an advantage to consider is that the application is completely portable and, therefore, does not need to be installed. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to connect our window machines to various Unix servers and transfer/move files from one location to another. ### 41. Simple and Effective Putty is your best Ally to connect to remote unix machines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrian P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I love that PuTTY allows me to connect easily to my Unix servers in a clean and efficient way. I have been using PuTTY for years and have never had any problems, and I am very happy to be able to say this about free software. The software is quite straightforward and does not require much additional configuration after installing and running it. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** My biggest complaint with PuTTY is that you can't have multiple sessions open in the same software with tabs (like a browser). Instead, PuTTY opens separate windows for each session, and when you work with more than 3 sessions, it's a bit crazy and it's much more convenient to have them open in the same application with tabs instead of individual windows that PuTTY itself provides. I hope that one day, they consider adding that option. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Very valuable tool to use, a good and free choice, try it and you will be surprised. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** PuTTY is my main tool for connecting to network devices remotely. Quick and easy access to the operating system via SSH. I have no idea how I would perform these tasks without using such an easy and yet effective tool. ### 42. Incredible device to execute Unix commands. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** The utility is very basic in terms of capacity; however, it performs the activity, that is the maximum critical function for me. I use putty considerably. I simply like the ability to add password fields to facilitate insecure registration for most and the flexibility in consumer configuration. It can be a very smooth and portable software used to execute Unix commands. 2 Available on all platforms: Windows Home, Mac, and Linux. 3 It allows me to buy periods to be able to log in faster next time. What I like the most is "automated playback on selection" which allows me to duplicate the textual content messages I have highlighted, making me more efficient. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Authorization: the tunnel submenu requires a small configuration attempt. Nothing, I literally save a duplicate of this on my USB. There is no option to save passwords and it is complicated when you have more than one class, as it will create more than one. Windows startup has some shortcomings like the Personalization PC in its visual aspect, something I have not yet improved in the latest versions Bare minimum UI. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** There are no prices, no technical problems. Try it, in case you perform numerous tasks in the terminal, you won't look back. There are different flavors of putty that have additional features. No installation is required and it is quite easy to apply. Connection to Servers, Multiple connections at the same time. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple and viable interface My team has observed these days that we can enable the SSH shell in the configuration of a VMware host and troubleshoot commands and replace it that way. The ability to store credentials and log in routinely is considered one of the most important advantages. It is quick to apply and easy to use. It is easy to apply, more than one machine can use it, and it is very reliable. ### 43. Best tool for file transfer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I have used this tool in my organization to transfer files from windows to Linux and Linux to windows. This is a very simple and easy tool to transfer files through SSH and Telnet. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** There are no discrepancies found while using this tool **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** I have recommended to use this tool on regular basis to transfer files between Linux and windows. This is really a very simple and easy tool to use. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used this tool in my project to transfer network files from windows to Linux and vice versa through different networking protocols such as SSH and Linux. This tool is really helpful in transferring networking files. ### 44. Review for PuTTY **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Its so easy to SSH into a virtual machine with PuTTy, You can telnet into your machines too, so that makes life easier as a QA Engineer. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The lack of a good help desk on the PuTTy shell. There is a lot of information available on the internet though so it ends up being a small issue **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Its very easy to use. There is a lot of information out there to use putty. I highly recommend it! **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging in to virtual machines and debugging them getting logs. Benefits realized are related to solving a lot of bugs for my company's solution platform ### 45. Best SSH Client for all Linux Platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gulshandeep S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Putty is the most used ssh client by windows users. Unlike linux and Mac OS, windows does not provide direct support for SSH, hence putty is required. It has got the all the tools which you may need to terminal emulation. You can connect to any type of system. It support all the authentication methods, be it password authentication or via pem file. It does not consume much memory, hence you can use multiple windows at same time. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** The process which is not running in background will get automatically terminated once the Terminal connection is broken from remote system. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to manage our servers on Amazon AWS. ### 46. A simple but fast connection service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** I love how simplistic a software can be and this one is one of them, you simply have a configurator with LOTS of parameters, and it mostly works fast, reliable and keeping it simple. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It could have more features regarding bugs, tunneling... but mostly bug control, sometimes you have the perception it is failing on some other things due to some vague descriptions. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** If you need some connection parameters to access or to have a configuration extended to a set of computers it is your software, in terms of reliability is flawless and when your focus is something that does the job without adding an extra layer of complexity you thank god for programs like this. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving connections to external IPs, access to some database that rely con controlled tunneling and sometimes to work at home and access to all the ip restricted office services. ### 47. Good for easy working on Unix or Linux systems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** saniya a. | saniya afshan--employee of infosys, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Helps to easily work on Linux Os with simple interface and helps to do file transfers easily. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** sometimes has increased complexity while working as requires a lot of Linux knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** use this for Linux os or Unix environement. Easy and simple. Good working experience. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** requires a lot of knowledge on commands. Once learnt the commands very easy to work on. ### 48. Simple yet effective terminal client **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave H. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** That it's light weight Opensource software at it's best! A very clean, simple to use interface with a multitude of features....all for nothing! The documentation on their website is very concise and covers every aspect of using the software. Another good point is how frequently they update the software, it's not enough to become annoying but they are regularly implementing new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Their change-log which is published on their site is testament to this. Often Opensource software is created for a specific reason, which is achieved and never improved or maintained. Keep up the good work Putty! The other great feature is the ability to multiple, yet individual instances of the application (I forget what they call this, something like polygamy). Which allows you to connect to different servers through different protocols concurrently. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** It's hard to pick a dislike with this little bit of software. I suppose the only thing that can be a little clunky is saving your connections. I also don't know where the credentials are stored and how secure they are. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** Give it a try, if you do a lot of terminal work you won't look back. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use PuTTY on a daily basis for a number of different tasks. Whether it be administrating our servers through their SSH terminal or using TELNET to talk to mail servers for debugging. It's xterm terminal emulator is very stable. You can even talk to older devices through serial connections! ### 49. Strong enough to meet the needs of most IT professionals. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2019 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** Connect to remote systems on a regular basis. **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** Session scripting is not possible in putty. **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connection to remote systems is much easier. ### 50. Simple but useful SSH client **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando Q. | Programador, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2018 **What do you like best about PuTTY?** What I like the best of PuTTy is to being able to set a SSH client very easily and quickly, and the most important thing without installing anything, if I'm out of my office I just have to download it and get quickly into my servers **What do you dislike about PuTTY?** What I dislike about PuTTy is not being able to open many consoles in the same application instance, I have to launch another instance of PuTTy if I have to access two servers at the same time. **Recommendations to others considering PuTTY:** If you have to access a server CLI from outside the office this may be the best option for being so quickly and easy to set up in any pc **What problems is PuTTY solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing my servers so quickly without configuring anything and just typing the ip or domain of the server and the port to be easily promted into the console ## 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=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-20+22%3A07%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=76cec357-952e-4586-bd22-3f929134a8b0&secure%5Btoken%5D=e054978bd62746daa335056b357518b83b0af4fb2ec5feaa782d47e21f12e09f&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)