When comparing Snowflake vs SecureCRT, the Slant community recommends SecureCRT for most people. In the question“What are the best SSH clients for UNIX-like systems?” SecureCRT is ranked 6th while Snowflake is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose SecureCRT is:
Some of us still need actual VT220 emulation to log into OpenVMS machines. SecureCRT does a superior job at it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Ability to fully export data to avoid vendor lock-in (as of 2021)
Pro Commonly accepted part of the Modern Data Stack
Pro Has a community / tools / references being built
Pro Does beta launches before wide release
Pro Data sharing across companies
Pro Data cleanroom
NBC Universal case study.
Pro Still in active product development as of 2022 with regular release timeline
Pro Does sysadmin work for you
Pro Pricing model as of 2020 is fair
Pro Storage and compute distinction
Pro VT220 emulation
Some of us still need actual VT220 emulation to log into OpenVMS machines. SecureCRT does a superior job at it.
Pro Buttons bar
SecureCRT while not free has the ability to make common commands in to button for faster command processing. Commands like: exit, clear, :wq!, ls -lha and the etc.
Pro Scriptable via Python API
Has a Python API to control most aspects of the terminal and sessions. Scripts can be bound to buttons, menu items, and keyboard shortcuts.
Pro Puts emphasis on security
SecureCRT has strong data encryption and secure authentication through the support of password and public keys.
Cons
Con CEO made anti-diversity comments in taped interview and hasn't been fired yet
Con Missing / unknown for a lot of best practices
Con Not free
Paid product. Some nice additional Cygwin type features and server version are integrated, but for most users the feature set probably does add enough value for a paid only client.