Alternatives to MobaXterm, Termius and more.
XTermium is a free, open-source terminal with a session manager for Windows, Linux and macOS. If you’re weighing it against a tool you use today, start here.
Side by side with the tools you know.
Each page says what the other tool is, from its own site, sets the two side by side in one table, says when to stay with it, and how to bring your sessions over. No scores, no prices of theirs.
MobaXterm alternative
A terminal for Windows with remote network tools.
Read it about MobaXterm alternativeTermius alternative
An SSH client on desktop and phone.
Read it about Termius alternativemRemoteNG alternative
An open-source, tabbed remote connections manager for Windows.
Read it about mRemoteNG alternativeRoyal TS alternative
Remote management for connections and credentials.
Read it about Royal TS alternativePuTTY alternative
A free SSH and telnet client for Windows and Unix.
Read it about PuTTY alternative
Six tools, side by side.
The same nine questions, asked of each. Every answer is what the tool’s own pages say, with no scores and no prices of theirs.
| Side by side | XTermium | MobaXterm | Termius | mRemoteNG | Royal TS | PuTTY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connections | SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, telnet, serial, WinRM, BMC consoles and websites | SSH, telnet, Rlogin, RDP, VNC, XDMCP, FTP, SFTP and serial, with mosh and an X11 server | SSH, Mosh, SFTP and Telnet, a local terminal and serial | RDP, VNC, SSH, HTTP/S and more | RDP, SSH and telnet, VNC, web, FTP, SFTP and SCP, TeamViewer, VMware, Hyper-V, PowerShell and Windows management tools | SSH and telnet, plus Rlogin, SUPDUP and serial ports |
| Systems | Windows, Linux and macOS | Windows | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android | Windows | Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, a Royal app on each | Windows and Unix |
| Price | Free; Pro adds sync and Terminal Co-op | A free Home Edition; a paid Professional Edition, for use inside a company | A free Starter plan; paid Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise plans | No price on its site; open source | A free Lite edition, up to 10 connections and 10 credentials; a paid licence | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0; the sync server is proprietary | Mobatek’s Home and Pro licences | Not mentioned on its site | GNU GPL v2 | Not mentioned on its site | MIT |
| Tabs | Tabs and split panes, with broadcast typing | A tabbed SSH terminal, based on PuTTY | Workspaces, in Focus mode or Split view | A tabbed connections manager | Connection tabs and dock panels | Not mentioned on its site |
| SFTP | A file panel beside SSH and VNC tabs, on the same connection | A graphical SFTP browser with each SSH session | Included in the free Starter plan | SSH File Transfer, over SFTP or SCP | File transfer over FTP, SFTP and SCP | PSFTP and PSCP, command-line tools beside PuTTY |
| Tunnels | Local, remote and SOCKS5, with live traffic | A graphical SSH tunnels manager; the Home Edition keeps up to 2 | Port forwarding, in the free Starter plan | An SSH tunnelling how-to in its docs | SSH-based tunnelling, called Secure Gateway | Port forwarding |
| Sync | With Pro, end-to-end encrypted | Not mentioned on its site | Across mobile and desktop, from the Pro plan | Not mentioned on its site | Documents opened by several people at once, changes synchronised without a SQL back end | Not mentioned on its site |
| Import | MobaXterm .ini or .mxtsessions, ~/.ssh/config, .xtermium exports | Not mentioned on its site | Not mentioned on its site | An exported XML or CSV file, computers from an Active Directory OU, or a port scan | Dynamic Folders and RoyalJSON bring in data from other sources | Not mentioned on its site |
Each tool’s column is from its own site, read on 4 November 2026; its page has the sources, the full table and how to move over: MobaXterm, Termius, mRemoteNG, Royal TS and PuTTY. XTermium’s column comes from its README. “Not mentioned on its site” means the pages read don’t say, not that the tool lacks it.
What XTermium is, in one paragraph.
A terminal with a session manager for Windows, Linux and macOS. SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, telnet, serial, WinRM, BMC consoles, websites and SSH tunnels open as tabs and split panes in one window. Everything it stores is encrypted on disk with a key in your OS keychain, and AI agents and scripts drive it through a local MCP server without seeing a password.
XTermium is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0: every connection type, on every OS, on any number of machines. Pro, the one paid plan, is the hosted part: end-to-end encrypted sync between your computers, and Terminal Co-op.
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SSH client
SSH sessions, SFTP, jump hosts and tunnels, in tabs.
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RDP, VNC, BMC consoles, WinRM and serial beside your terminals.
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A local MCP server and agent tabs that never see a password.
Read more about AI agentsCredentials
Shared and saved logins, encrypted on disk, kept out of exports.
Read more about CredentialsScreens
Every capture of the running app, with demo data.
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Get it for Windows, Linux or macOS.
Free and open source. One command fetches the latest build from GitHub, checks its sha256 and installs it; read install.ps1 or install.sh first. Every file and its checksum, Scoop included, are under Downloads, and the .msi, .exe, .zip, .deb, .rpm, AppImage and .dmg are in the latest release on GitHub. The macOS app is not signed by Apple yet: how to open it the first time.
WindowsWindows 10 and 11
irm https://xtermium.com/install.ps1 | iexLinuxx64: .deb, .rpm or AppImage
curl -fsSL https://xtermium.com/install.sh | shmacOSApple silicon and Intel: one universal .dmg
curl -fsSL https://xtermium.com/install.sh | sh