Alternatives

Alternatives to kitty

5 Terminals rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — kitty itself ranks #4 with a PA Score of 13/100. Every “beats kitty on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

#1
Warp
Warp (Denver Technologies, Inc.)
PA Score 53/100vs kitty →
coverage
40.7/100
Beats kitty 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
iTerm2
George Nachman / iTerm2 contributors
PA Score 19/100vs kitty →
coverage
34.5/100
Beats kitty on: Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events · Open URLs and file paths from output by clicking them or selecting them from the keyboard
#3
WezTerm
Wez Furlong / WezTerm community
PA Score 18/100vs kitty →
coverage
30.8/100
Beats kitty on: Self-host the core product · Search my scrollback quickly and jump between matches
#5
Alacritty
Alacritty community (Christian Duerr et al.)
PA Score 8/100vs kitty →
coverage
13.7/100
Beats kitty on: Read the product's source under an open license · Search my scrollback quickly and jump between matches
#6
Ghostty
Ghostty (Mitchell Hashimoto / contributors)
PA Score 6/100vs kitty →
coverage
18.8/100
Beats kitty on: Summon the terminal instantly with a global hotkey or quake-style dropdown window · Read the product's source under an open license

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