Comparison
Pane vs Termius
TL;DR
Pick Termius to SSH into lots of servers you don't own. Pick Pane, which is free and open source, to work on your own machines from any device, with files, dev servers and coding agents included.
At a glance
| Termius | Pane | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier; sync and team features are paid | Free |
| Open source | No | Yes, AGPL-3.0 |
| Desktop | macOS, Windows, Linux | macOS, Windows, Linux |
| Mobile | Native iOS and Android apps | Browser app, installs to home screen |
| What you connect to | Any SSH server | Your machines running Pane, over Tailscale or SSH |
| Remote files | SFTP | File browser, editor, image/PDF/video previews |
| Remote dev servers | Port forwarding rules | Automatic at localhost on a connected desktop, live reload included; phones open them in a browser tab |
| Coding agents | Run in a shell | Managed: branches, status, needs-input alerts on phone |
| Where host data lives | Termius cloud vault (synced) | On your own machines |
Price
- Termius
- Free tier; sync and team features are paid
- Pane
- Free
Open source
- Termius
- No
- Pane
- Yes, AGPL-3.0
Desktop
- Termius
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- Pane
- macOS, Windows, Linux
Mobile
- Termius
- Native iOS and Android apps
- Pane
- Browser app, installs to home screen
What you connect to
- Termius
- Any SSH server
- Pane
- Your machines running Pane, over Tailscale or SSH
Remote files
- Termius
- SFTP
- Pane
- File browser, editor, image/PDF/video previews
Remote dev servers
- Termius
- Port forwarding rules
- Pane
- Automatic at
localhoston a connected desktop, live reload included; phones open them in a browser tab
Coding agents
- Termius
- Run in a shell
- Pane
- Managed: branches, status, needs-input alerts on phone
Where host data lives
- Termius
- Termius cloud vault (synced)
- Pane
- On your own machines
Where Termius wins
- Any server, no install. Termius talks plain SSH, so it reaches routers, VPS boxes and servers where you can't install anything.
- Native mobile apps with a tuned SSH keyboard.
- Team vaults for sharing hosts and keys across a company.
Where Pane wins
- Your whole machine, not a shell. Terminals, files and dev servers in one app.
- Coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex or Cursor Agent on a Mac mini or VM and steer them from your phone.
- Free and open source. Audit it, self-host it, and pay nothing for sync or mobile.
- Each device keeps its own view. Your phone and laptop can look at different things on the same machine.
Use both
Termius for the fleet of servers you administer; Pane for the machine you build on. They don't overlap much.
Sources
- Corrections
- If anything here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we'll fix it and update the date at the top. Open an issue on GitHub
- Sources
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Download*
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By Parsa Khazaeepoul, co-founder of Pane. .