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Alternatives to WezTerm

5 Terminals rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — WezTerm itself ranks #3 with a PA Score of 18/100. Every “beats WezTerm 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 WezTerm →
    coverage
    40.7/100

    Beats WezTerm 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 WezTerm →
    coverage
    34.5/100

    Beats WezTerm on: Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events · Jump between prompts and command marks in my scrollback thanks to shell integration

  3. #4kitty logo
    kitty

    Kovid Goyal

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

    Beats WezTerm on: Drive the product through a documented public API · Jump between prompts and command marks in my scrollback thanks to shell integration

  4. #5Alacritty logo
    Alacritty

    Alacritty community (Christian Duerr et al.)

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

    Beats WezTerm on: Read the product's source under an open license · See published benchmarks or measured latency/throughput numbers backing the terminal's performance claims

  5. #6Ghostty logo
    Ghostty

    Ghostty (Mitchell Hashimoto / contributors)

    PA Score 6/100vs WezTerm →
    coverage
    18.8/100

    Beats WezTerm on: Use programming fonts with ligatures, fallback fonts, and fine-grained font tuning · Apply color schemes and themes, including automatic light/dark mode switching

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