--- title: TeraTerm Reviews meta\_title: 'TeraTerm Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how TeraTerm works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # TeraTerm Reviews & Product Details TeraTerm is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator. It emulates different types of computer terminals, from DEC VT100 to DEC VT382. * * * Seller [Tera Term Project](https://www.g2.com/sellers/tera-term-project) Discussions [TeraTerm Community](https://www.g2.com/products/teraterm/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![PuTTY](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PuTTY") PuTTY 4.5/5(353) ](https://www.g2.com/products/putty/reviews) [ ![MobaXTerm](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MobaXTerm") MobaXTerm 4.6/5(110) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mobaxterm/reviews) [ ![SecureCRT](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SecureCRT") SecureCRT 4.8/5(54) ](https://www.g2.com/products/securecrt/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/teraterm/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/24/2026 "A Great Windows Terminal Emulator: TeraTerm" 4/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? The best about TeraTerm is its a terminal emulator for windows user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? Dislike about TeraTerm is it is only for windows users and UI is not modern one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem that TeraTerm solving for me is remote connectivity through SSH, Telnet and serial connections, etc., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Leonardo C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Leonardo C.") LC Leonardo C. Distribuidor independiente Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/28/2022 "TeraTerm" 4.5/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? Excellent application, I was using Putty before but this application seemed more pleasant and intuitive to me. What I liked the most about this application is the configuration since I can set it up to my liking and save it. I recommend it to all those people who connect to a server or a router to do their work remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? The truth is, what I don't like is that I can't connect to the remote desktop. It would be great if it allowed me to connect to my session on my Windows server; this would help a lot with remote work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? The issues are diverse, especially for people who have to deal with routers and servers; they always encounter problems, and both internal and external connections are necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User ProfileAI Translated ![Rahul S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul S.") RS Rahul S. Technical Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2021 "The Perfect Terminal Emulator" 5/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? I have used multiple terminal emulator software in my career as an embedded software engineer but I found TeraTerm as the best and most elegant software due to its simple and easy use user interface. It has to-the-point features without any tantrums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? I have found nothing that I dislike. It has got all features succinctly developed to be perfect. Although it sometimes misses detecting USB when a device is connected through a USB hub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: I recommend everyone who wants to use an easy and clean terminal emulator for their development purposes to use TeraTerm. It got every feature you'll need like serial, SSH to Telenet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? We are a startup working towards the sanitization problem in our country. We are developing a smart real-time automation system for public toilets for which we have built our own IoT network with the help of electronics and the cloud. And TeraTerm plays a crucial role during our time of research and development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Melvin F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Melvin F.") MF Melvin F. Senior Firmware Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/11/2021 "TeraTerm Review" 4.5/5 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Melvin F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Melvin F.") MF Melvin F. FIRMWARE ENGINEER Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/6/2021 "Stable software for your serial terminal and TCP/IP connection needs" 4.5/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? The software is light and stable. Lets you save the session and you can open multiple terminals in a high speed manner and organize them quickly using the macros makes it easy to configure the nodes through the terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? the software does not allow to type across multiple sessions together. I feel if there is an option to enter the same command in multiple windows it would be great and saves time when it is required to configure more nodes simultaneously Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: if you are embedded engineer and looking for tool to connect your system through UART this is the best one in the market. Enables you to take a remote session as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? Remote terminal serial terminal access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/12/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Yasas Sri S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yasas Sri S.") YS Yasas Sri S. Systems Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/17/2020 "Must have tool for Network Engineers and System Administrator" 4/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? TeraTerm is very light compared to other terminal emulators in the market but it does everything what it is supposed to do. Most impressive thing about TeraTerm is that, it can automatically detect the serial port even if you use serial to USB converter unlike PUTTY. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? Sometimes I feel that there is a small delay in TeraTerm specially when using the serial connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm using TeraTerm to connect to my network devices and servers via telnet, ssh or serial. The best benefit of TeraTerm that I have realized is that, it is totally free, so no need to worry about purchasing license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/21/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RM Roger M. Sole Proprietor Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/30/2019 "Great full featured dumb terminal program for SSH and serial connections." 4.5/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? It offers features such as file transfer using X/Y/Zmodem and Kermit. It can replay recorded sessions which is very helpful during support calls with vendors/customers. These features are normally found it commercial offerings. It is also regularly updated and is a small download. A must for any network administrator's toolkit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? Wish you can setup predefined connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: Before dishing out funds for commercial offerings, you should do yourself a favor and use TeraTerm for a week to get it a good trial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? Our network equipment has out-of-band management consoles which we can connect to via TeraTerm. We can also use TeraTerm to connect to any SSH server to manage equipment in-band. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite BB Bill B. Technical Services Specialist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2019 "Great Terminal Emulator" 5/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? I love TeraTerm because it does everything that you may need it to do and it does it all better than PuTTY and other open source terminal emulators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? The default colors are not great, but they can be changed so that's an easy fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: Look no further than TeraTerm for easy terminal emulation software! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? TeraTerm allows me to SSH/Telnet into various networking devices as well as console in with a serial connection. I use TeraTerm when teaching my students as well, as it is simple to set up and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Khola M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Khola M.") KM Khola M. Author Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/30/2019 "Fast and easy emulator software" 4/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? It is a responsive software that shows the incoming data on the edge or terminal software. We can now set serial port connection without any hesitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? It does not have any convert option and shows the conversion format in hex or ascii format only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: It is an excellent tool for creating connections and also for serial communication. You can also debug it with micro controller if you are using micro controller tera term. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? A good software for debugging which also helps you to communicate to other systems by serial connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Raj P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Raj P.") RP Raj P. Software Automation Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/30/2019 "A very nice software for serial comm. I generally use this software for all my projects" 4/5 What do you like best about TeraTerm? The best thing about this software is that it is an open source software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about TeraTerm? The interface seems kind of outdated, which I feel can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering TeraTerm: Maybe improve the UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is TeraTerm solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used this software in my undergraduate studies and also in my graduate studies. I have made many projects which use this software. The benefits of tera term is the response time. I fwlt that it is faster as compared to Putty Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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