Putty.exe is undoubtedly one of the most efficient and best secure shell clients for Windows. This SSH client helps you to manage a lot of things. This starts from managing cisco routers and ends with logging into your cloud or VPS server. However, the command line of Putty isn’t so easy for new network engineers. Nevertheless, Putty is the industrial standard for controlling SSH clients that stands out.
Today, we are here with some alternatives to the Putty that gives you extra features for managing servers over SSH. So, let’s directly jump into these alternatives of Putty.
Best Putty Alternatives for SSH Clients of Windows
Here, we will describe the 5 best Putty alternatives for SSH clients for Windows, along with their features.
#1 KiTTY

KiTTY is the best competitor of Putty client. Several add-ons make it equivalent or somehow comparable to the original one. It has some great peculiarities in its toolbox that can surely help you to manage servers over SSH. So, let’s have a quick view of the salient- features in the KiTTY.
- In KiTTY, you’ll get session filtering options.
- KiTTY is portable, which means no installation is required.
- You can access pre-defined shortcut commands with the help of right-click menu.
- KiTTY has only a few automated scripts/action options after login, along with character/line delays, CR/LF timeouts, translations, and waits for specific variables.
- It has automatic passwords/commands.
- Further, it gives to the ability to Run Local Scripts on Remote Devices or Remote Systems.
- It is clubbed with Clipboard printing as well as the Binary Compression feature.
- Most importantly, you get the service of Autosave. By this, you don’t need to save every now and then. Further, this feature assures you for no loss of data due to any reason of system shut down. This feature saves your session with the help of the Windows Registry.
- It also helps in managing Hyperlinks/URL’s in a session like Undrlinking Links or to choose which browser would be suitable for opening the links, and further, it facilitates Regular Expressions, i.e., Regex.



