Compare the Top Terminal Emulators for Cloud as of October 2025

What are Terminal Emulators for Cloud?

Terminal emulators are software programs that replicate the functionality of a traditional terminal or command-line interface (CLI) within a graphical environment. These tools allow users to interact with their computer's operating system using text-based commands, offering access to system functions, file management, and programming tasks. Terminal emulators are commonly used by developers, system administrators, and power users for running scripts, managing servers, or debugging applications. They often support features such as tabbed windows, color schemes, customizable key bindings, and integration with remote systems through protocols like SSH. By providing a flexible and efficient way to work with the command line, terminal emulators enhance productivity in both local and remote computing environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Terminal Emulators for Cloud currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Rio Terminal

    Rio Terminal

    Rio Terminal

    Rio is a terminal application that’s built with Rust, WebGPU, Tokio runtime. It targets to have the best frame per second experience as long you want, but is also configurable to use as minimal from GPU. The terminal renderer is based on redux state machine, lines that has not updated will not suffer a redraw. Looking for the minimal rendering process in most of the time. Rio is also designed to support WebAssembly runtime so in the future you will be able to define how a tab system will work with a WASM plugin written in your favorite language. Rio uses WGPU, which is an implementation of WebGPU for use outside of a browser and as backend for Firefox’s WebGPU implementation. WebGPU allows for more efficient usage of modern GPU’s than WebGL.
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    OpenText HostExplorer
    Terminal emulation is the ability to make one computer terminal, typically a PC, appear to look like another, usually older type of terminal so that a user can access programs originally written to communicate with the other terminal type. OpenText HostExplorer is one of best terminal emulator software packages available for IBM® 3270 Mainframes, AS/400s, UNIX and FTP hosts. OpenText™ HostExplorer is a terminal emulator that provides fast, secure and reliable connections from Microsoft® Windows® PCs to a variety of enterprise hosts. HostExplorer enables organizations to benefit from the latest PC and web technologies while protecting their investment in data, information assets and systems. Easy migration preserves user experience, eliminates need for retraining and avoiding business workflow interruptions. Reduces maintenance cost and effort through automatic upgrades and centralized administration.
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    StayLinked

    StayLinked

    StayLinked

    StayLinked enables you to migrate to state-of-the-art devices, measure and optimize productivity with cutting-edge business intelligence, and interface with ground-breaking technologies in the areas of automation, robotics, augmented reality, and location-based services. Keeping employees on the job is a key part of productivity. The architecture of traditional terminal emulation solutions often leads to erratic application connectivity and performance. This results in end users spending time troubleshooting issues with the help desk rather than performing important application tasks. By eliminating dropped or lost sessions, providing centralized application configuration and management, and delivering highly efficient help desk tools, StayLinked keeps applications and end users running at peak performance. StayLinked Terminal Emulation (TE) is the fastest TE solution available for mobile devices. Traditional terminal emulation products send all telnet/SSH traffic to the mobile device.
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    Rocket Passport

    Rocket Passport

    Rocket Software

    Rocket® Passport terminal emulation solutions includes Rocket Passport Web to Host® and Rocket Passport PC to Host. Rocket Passport Web to Host software is a feature-rich, browser-based IBM® 3270 emulator for host access, which can significantly reduce costs for organizations using other desktop terminal emulators. Passport Web to Host includes both enhanced IBM TN3270E emulation and basic TN3270 emulation, as well as IBM® i (TN5250), UNIX/DEC (VT), and secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP). With Passport Web to Host, remote or distributed Windows users get all the tools they need for secure, reliable, productive host connectivity. This includes support for SSL and SSH security, VB Script for macro development, HLLAPI and an Object API for IBM application integration, comprehensive Windows cut-and-paste, and more. Passport PC to Host gives Windows users all the tools they need to create secure, reliable, productive host connectivity.
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    Flynet Viewer TE
    Flynet Viewer™ TE (Terminal Emulation) provides a browser based, terminal emulator to access key business systems. Access Mainframe, iSeries, Unix, VMS or MultiValue systems, on any device with zero client software. The terminal emulator is installed in a server environment, either on-premise or in the cloud, and centrally managed via the Flynet Viewer administration centre. Flynet Viewer works on all browsers and devices with no Java or ActiveX plugins. Flynet Viewer has all the features you would expect in an enterprise terminal emulator, including client and server-side macro creation, file transfer, single sign-on, MFA and keyboard remapping. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation provides the same level of functionality that is associated with a full fat desktop Terminal Emulation client but is delivered over the web and served up via a browser. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation will run on any device regardless of operating system or indigenous browser.
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    Ivanti Terminal Emulation
    Terminal emulation, powered by Wavelink, extends your enterprise systems to warehouse workers’ mobile devices. Empower workers to pick faster, with improved order accuracy, completing more tasks each shift. Add barcode scanning, optimize with automation scripts, even add voice, all without modifying your host system. From inventory to picking, receiving to cross-docking, your workers execute tasks everywhere on the floor and beyond. Our solutions help them navigate tasks while leveraging the advanced data-capture technologies available in your chosen mobile devices and interface with all leading systems—including Manhattan, JDA, and Infor. Workers multi-task, and so do our telnet solutions. It’s all about getting more orders shipped during peak periods.
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    Jolly Giant

    Jolly Giant

    Jolly Giant

    Reliable, fast, efficient and secure Windows® O/S to IBM mainframe and AS/400 connectivity solutions and support, now with web and mobile interface options. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your IBM mainframe over LAN and dialup connections. QWS3270 Secure is a 3270 emulation application that allows PCs to connect to SSL enabled IBM mainframes over a secure TCP/IP connection. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your A/S400 over LAN and dialup connections. WIRE offers a web based modernization platform to enhance and improve the user interfaces of mainframe applications and deliver them to web and mobile platforms,
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    OpenText Reflection for the Web
    Configure sessions with hotspots, keyboard mapping, color settings, and more. Build web frameworks around mainframe applications. Centrally install and deploy for instant availability. Once you make updates, users automatically download the new version when they connect. Connect to any major GDS. Use the Airlines Printer component to generate tickets, baggage tags, and boarding passes. Connect to host systems, making IBM, UNIX, Unisys, OpenVMS, and HP data instantly available to browser users, no matter where they are, without the need for Java. The new Reflection for the Web Launcher enables end users to continue access to mainframe and host applications while removing any requirements for Oracle Java. Allow users to work the way that they work best providing terminal sessions, printing, and file transfer.
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    Stromasys

    Stromasys

    Stromasys

    If your business is running legacy systems, let us help you virtualize. Our team of experts provide solutions that allow you to maintain your legacy servers without the risks associated. with aging hardware. Contact. us using the form below to speak with a specialist about implementing our Charon. solutions.
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    Guake Terminal

    Guake Terminal

    Guake Terminal

    Imagine you are working in your favorite text editor and want to execute some commands, like execute the unit test of your code, check a man page, or edit some configuration file. You can do it at lightning speed without leaving your keyboard. Just press your predefined "Show Guake" hotkey, execute your command, and repress it to hide the terminal and go back to your work. Guake supports Multimonitor setup. Open it on the monitor where your mouse is, or in a dedicated screen. Use Several named tabs, with names automatically set from the running command, or easily customized. Start Guake automatically at login, and define a script that will be executed on Guake launch, in order to configure Guake tabs.
    Starting Price: Free
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    HCL ZIE

    HCL ZIE

    HCL Software

    Time-Tested Emulator of choice by Global Mainframe Customers. Extend mission critical terminal applications to the web, mobile or as APIs without touching the existing application. HCL ZIE for Transformation extends mission-critical terminal applications to the web, mobile, or as standard SOAP or RESTful web services without touching the existing application. No rewriting, refactoring, or access to application source code is required. Reduce training costs, increase end user productivity with improved navigation and usability, and eliminate data entry errors. ZIE for Transformation tunable default rendering and screen customization get all the screens of your existing application rendered with a new, intuitive user interface. Deploy apps to web, portal, and Eclipse RCP runtime environments, and allow access by a large variety of web browsers, including mobile.
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    Jubilant Terminal Emulator
    Jubilant Terminal Emulator provides a browser based, terminal emulator to access key business systems. Access Mainframe, iSeries, Unix, VMS or MultiValue systems, on any device with zero client software. The terminal emulator is installed in a server environment, either on-premise or in the cloud, and centrally managed via the Jubilant administration centre. Jubilant works on all browsers and devices with no Java or ActiveX plugins. Jubilant has all the features you would expect in an enterprise terminal emulator, including client and server-side macro creation, file transfer, single sign-on, MFA and keyboard remapping.
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    Inventu Viewer+

    Inventu Viewer+

    Inventu Corporation

    Inventu Viewer+ Web Terminal Emulation - Fast, Secure and Complete. Provides fast, direct terminal emulation using Zero-Footprint browser technology, with no plug-ins required. Provides an excellent replacement option for organizations with existing solutions based on Java or ActiveX such as Host-on-Demand, Reflections for the Web and BlueZone. Also works well to replace desktop terminal emulators where lower administration costs and improved user access flexibility is desired. Supports web-based access to IBM Mainframes and IBM i systems using TN3270 and TN5250. Has many customers successfully accessing LINUX/UNIX/VMS/PICK based systems using VT100/VT220/VT440, SCO-ANSI, ADDS-ViewPoint.
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    PowerTerm WebConnect HostView
    In today's economy, one of the best ways for an organization to emerge as productive and agile is to optimize their IT resources. Ericom helps organization achieve this with PowerTerm® WebConnect HostView web-to-host emulation. Leverage the benefits of PC-client access software and server-based computing to take legacy assets to a new level. Centrally manage configuration and software updates - save on time and administrative resources. Increase productivity; enable anytime, anywhere access to business-critical applications using a standard web browser, regardless of the user's physical location. Reduce costs associated with individual licensing, maintenance, support and updates. SSL, SSH, SFTP, Active Directory and LDAP integration, Single Sign-On, authentication (including Kerberos), RADIUS, RSA® SecurID® and SecurEnvoy® SecureAccess and SecurICE two-factor authentication support, and more.
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    Rocket Terminal Emulator
    Rocket® Terminal Emulator (formerly Rocket® BlueZone®) is a different kind of solution. Highly configurable, users can customize their environment to maximize comfort and efficiency. Its native security ensures your critical business data remains protected, while providing a cost-effective alternative that delivers exceptional value. Switching from your existing terminal emulation solution is straightforward with our migration wizards and exceptional team supporting your move to Rocket Terminal Emulator. Rocket Terminal Emulator enables each user to customize their terminal environment to feel familiar and comfortable. Users of host systems often have shortcuts and hot-keys configured specifically to their most often-used tasks. With Rocket Terminal Emulator, many of those macros will easily migrate from your prior emulator.
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    OpenText InfoConnect Desktop
    Connect business users and customers to your data-rich enterprise systems – from TPF, ALCS, and GDS hosts to IBM, Unisys, UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, HP 3000, HP NonStop (Tandem 6530). You can run InfoConnect on Windows 10 with confidence. Gain the flexibility you need to manage changing desktops and user preferences. Integrate full-featured emulation within a corporate portal or web page. Customize installation configurations with ease. Centrally manage Terminal IDs for host connections. Print from shared printers, host devices, card readers, specialized ticket printers, point-of-sale terminals, and a variety of old and new communication protocols. Streamline and secure your host-access operation by teaming InfoConnect with MSS. InfoConnect Desktop works with your Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, including those that are SAML-enabled, to authenticate to MSS. Whereupon MSS seamlessly propagates changes to application settings and user-specific content from a central server.
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    OpenText Host Access for the Cloud
    Quickly deliver browser-based access from a central location – without the need to manage Java runtime environments. Make sure you know who is accessing your mainframe, and ensure that only authorized users get to the login screen. Leverage enterprise credentials to move from a potentially unsecure eight-character password, to a one-time pass ticket. Why reinvent the wheel? Provision terminal emulation like other corporate resources, through the corporate user directory. Quickly deploy secure, customized browser-based sessions, with supporting keyboards, quick keys, and macros. Provide HTML5 access to 3270, 5250, VT, Unisys and Airline host applications from a central location – without the need to manage workstation dependencies, or Java runtime environments.
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    TTerm Connect

    TTerm Connect

    Turbosoft

    Turbosoft's terminal emulation software supports over 80 different emulations for systems such as IBM, HP, OpenVMS, Unix, HP NonStop, Unisys, Wyse & more. Choose from TTerm Connect, our web-based HTML5 offering, TTWin4 for Windows desktops, TTerm for Linux, or, for developers integrating terminal emulation, TTerm for .NET. TTerm Connect, our web-based terminal emulator offers flexible, powerful terminal emulation with nothing more than a web browser. TTerm Connect offers all the features you would expect from a desktop terminal emulator in a lightweight web application. Centrally configured and managed, TTerm Connect requires no client-side installation and can be deployed with its own web client or integrated with your existing website. Any host, any device. Available for any modern web browser and client device and with options for Windows or Linux based servers. Flexible & capable of servicing the terminal emulation needs of thousands of concurrent users.
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    Ivanti

    Ivanti

    Ivanti

    Ivanti offers integrated IT management solutions designed to automate and secure technology across organizations. Their Unified Endpoint Management platform provides intuitive control from a single console to manage any device from any location. Ivanti’s Enterprise Service Management delivers actionable insights to streamline IT operations and improve employee experiences. The company also provides comprehensive network security and exposure management tools to protect assets and prioritize risks effectively. Trusted by over 34,000 customers worldwide, including Conair and City of Seattle, Ivanti supports secure, flexible work environments. Their solutions enable businesses to boost productivity while maintaining strong security and operational visibility.
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