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Windows Terminal vs Alacritty: catalog facts
Windows Terminal	Alacritty
Free Free and open source, published by Microsoft.	Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux
One window for Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL distributions and Azure Cloud Shell Tabs, split panes and tab tear-out into separate windows	Vi mode for moving around and making selections with Vi bindings Search across the scrollback buffer, and regex hints for marking text
Windows only, and it needs a reasonably current Windows 10 or 11 It is a terminal, not a shell: the shell you run inside it is still cmd, PowerShell or…	The project describes itself as beta, with features still missing and bugs to fix No tabs or built-in multiplexer by design; you need tmux or your window manager
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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