Open Source Terminal Emulators Comparison

Comparison of 18 open source terminal emulators from official documentation.

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Terminals Compared

• Alacritty
• Foot
• Ghostty
• GNOME Terminal
• Hyper
• iTerm2
• Kitty
• Konsole
• Rio
• st
• Tabby
• Terminator
• Terminology
• Tilix
• urxvt
• WezTerm
• Windows Terminal
• xterm

Metrics

• GPU acceleration
• Ligatures
• Tabs
• Splits
• True color
• Image support
• Platform support
• Performance
• Configuration
• Development info

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Last updated: January 14, 2026