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Alacritty

Cross-platform OpenGL terminal emulator that leaves tabs and splits to other tools

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Scores on the gpu-accelerated terminal emulators criteria

Evaluated Nov 5, 2026
  • Published performance evidence ×3 4

    4/5 means: States benchmark results against other terminals without publishing the figures and test setup.

    Names its benchmark tool, vtebench, and says it consistently scores better than the competition, but the README publishes no figures and says latency is harder to measure.

    2 quotes
  • Tabs, splits and sessions ×3 2

    2/5 means: Multiple windows, but no tabs or splits.

    Multiple windows from one instance, but no tabs or splits by design.

    2 quotes
  • Operating systems ×2 5

    5/5 means: Linux, macOS, Windows and at least one BSD.

    BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

    1 quote
  • Images, ligatures and links ×2 2

    2/5 means: One of the four.

    Clickable URLs are documented; the features overview lists no inline images, ligatures or automatic light/dark theme switching.

    1 quote

Evidence (15 quotes)

  1. 1
    “Alacritty uses vtebench to quantify terminal emulator throughput and manages to consistently score better than the competition using it.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  2. 2
    “Other aspects like latency or framerate and frame consistency are more difficult to quantify.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  3. 3
    “This means you won't find things like tabs or splits (which are best left to a window manager or terminal multiplexer) nor niceties like a GUI config editor.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  4. 4
    “Alacritty supports running multiple terminal emulators from the same Alacritty instance.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  5. 5
    “The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  6. 6
    “You can open URLs with your mouse by clicking on them.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  7. 7
    “The vi mode allows moving around Alacritty's viewport and scrollback using the keyboard.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  8. 8
    “The software is considered to be at a beta level of readiness; there are a few missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as a daily driver.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  9. 9
    “Alacritty doesn't create the config file for you, but it looks for one in the following locations:”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  10. 11
    “By default you can launch it using Ctrl Shift Space .”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  11. 12
    “Some terminal emulators also intentionally slow down to save resources, which might be preferred by some users.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty · checked
  12. 13
    “One useful feature of vi mode is the ability to make selections and copy text to the clipboard.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  13. 14
    “It also serves as a jump-off point for other features like search and opening URLs with the keyboard.”
    github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/docs/features.md · checked
  14. 15
    “Alacritty+tmux is included just to show the effect of putting a terminal multiplexer into the mix (halving throughput)”
    sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance · checked
  15. 16
    “tag_name: v0.17.0, published_at: 2026-04-06T19:24:18Z”
    api.github.com/repos/alacritty/alacritty/releases/latest · checked

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