vev vs Termius
Termius is a terminal with a chatbot addon. vev is a control plane. That's the argument. Here's the table.
| feature | vev | Termius |
|---|---|---|
| Account required | no | yes |
| Free tier connection limit | unlimited | 10 hosts / tier caps |
| Binary size | 5MB | 180MB+ (Electron) |
| Cold start | <40ms | 2-4s |
| AI pair built-in | yes, BYOK | yes, their cloud only |
| Log analysis | yes | no |
| IaC generation | yes | no |
| Notebooks (shell/SQL/Python/AI) | yes | no |
| P2P encrypted file transfer | yes | no (SFTP only) |
| Fleet dashboard | yes (Pro) | higher tier only |
| Keys stored on | your machine | their cloud (default) |
| Pricing | $199 lifetime / $99 yr | $10+/mo perpetual |
| Open plugin system | WASM plugins | no |
A chatbot is not a control plane.
Termius bolted an LLM onto a terminal. It's fine. It is not the same category of tool as vev, in the same way a calculator app is not a spreadsheet.
A control plane knows what you're doing across every session. It writes the shell. It reads the logs. It knows the fleet. It moves the files. It is the window you live in.
why people switch
- — They don't want their SSH keys on somebody else's sync server.
- — They have 30+ hosts and Termius starts charging.
- — They want notebooks, which Termius doesn't have.
- — They want a 5MB binary, not a browser.