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PortButler

Last updated 2026-09-18 · benchmark measured 2026-09-18 — deterministic & reproducible

Native macOS app combining SSH, SFTP, and serial connections in one window.

66/100
6/7 frames
Top 82% of 14,148 measured · #9 of 10 in ssh client
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 6 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Checked 2026-09-18 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored PortButler 66/100 on 2026-09-18, measured across 6 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/portbutler-sshlab-dev/2026-09-18

Is PortButler production-ready?

Legit.Show scores PortButler 66 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PortButler (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Discoverability; its weakest is Privacy. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

What we measured

Who it's for

macOS developers · embedded systems engineers · system administrators · hardware engineers

Pricing

$29 one-time (through Dec 31); $39 from Jan 1. Major upgrades $15. Ten-seat pack $240. 14-day free trial.

Sources and updates

Description
Taken from portbutler.sshlab.dev's own website on 2026-09-18.
Benchmark
Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-18.

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