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Alternatives to Ghostty

5 Terminals rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — Ghostty itself ranks #6 with a PA Score of 6/100. Every “beats Ghostty on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

  1. #1Warp logo
    Warp

    Warp (Denver Technologies, Inc.)

    PA Score 53/100vs Ghostty →
    coverage
    40.7/100

    Beats Ghostty on: Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools · Delegate terminal tasks to a built-in AI agent that plans and executes commands with my approval

  2. #2iTerm2 logo
    iTerm2

    George Nachman / iTerm2 contributors

    PA Score 19/100vs Ghostty →
    coverage
    34.5/100

    Beats Ghostty on: Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events · Use tmux inside the terminal, or a documented native tmux integration/control mode

  3. #3WezTerm logo
    WezTerm

    Wez Furlong / WezTerm community

    PA Score 18/100vs Ghostty →
    coverage
    30.8/100

    Beats Ghostty on: Self-host the core product · Let a coding agent programmatically drive the terminal itself — create panes, run commands, read output — through a documented control protocol or API

  4. #4kitty logo
    kitty

    Kovid Goyal

    PA Score 13/100vs Ghostty →
    coverage
    37.0/100

    Beats Ghostty on: Let a coding agent programmatically drive the terminal itself — create panes, run commands, read output — through a documented control protocol or API · Script and control the terminal from the command line — open windows, send text, query state — via a documented CLI or IPC interface

  5. #5Alacritty logo
    Alacritty

    Alacritty community (Christian Duerr et al.)

    PA Score 8/100vs Ghostty →
    coverage
    13.7/100

    Beats Ghostty on: Search my scrollback quickly and jump between matches · Use an official CLI

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