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# Terminal comparisons overview

Compare Warp's performance and terminal feature support against other popular terminal emulators like iTerm2, Alacritty, and WezTerm.

Warp is a modern terminal built in Rust with GPU rendering, agent support, and a code-editor-style input. Use this section to see how Warp stacks up against other popular terminals on raw performance and feature coverage.

## How Warp differs

-   **Open source under AGPL v3** — Warp’s client lives at [`warpdotdev/warp`](https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp). You can read the code, build from source, and contribute. See [Contributing to Warp](/support-and-community/community/contributing/) for the flow.
-   **Built-in agents** — Warp ships with Warp Agent (powered by Oz) and supports third-party CLI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI from the same terminal.
-   **Modern editing** — Cursor placement, multi-line input, block-based output, and integrated code review work like a text editor instead of a traditional terminal emulator.
-   **Cross-platform Rust core** — Warp ships on macOS, Linux, and Windows from a single Rust + GPU-rendered codebase.

## Benchmarks

-   [Performance benchmarks](/terminal/comparisons/performance/) — VTE and Termbench results comparing Warp against Terminal.app, iTerm2, Alacritty, and WezTerm.