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Alacritty vs Ghostty

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Alacritty

Alacritty is an open-source, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on simplicity and performance. It uses OpenGL for rendering, making it one of the fastest terminal emulators available. Alacritty is configured through a YAML file and intentionally omits features like tabs and splits, relying on terminal multiplexers like tmux for those capabilities.

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Ghostty

Ghostty is a terminals tool that fast native terminal emulator built in zig with gpu rendering and platform-native ui on macos and linux. It is open source software.

TerminalsFreeOpen Source

Quick Facts

Alacritty

Year Launched2017
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryTerminals
Platforms

Ghostty

Year Launched2024
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryTerminals
PlatformsWeb

Pricing

Alacritty

Free

Ghostty

Free

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