Every category where a model named Cerberus FTP Server for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Managed file transfer	Data platform	6%	3 of 97	0%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cerberus FTP Server yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cerberus FTP Server across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	3
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labels2

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“start with Cerberus FTP Server Professional if you want on-prem Windows SFTP with AD/LDAP integration, FIPS 140-2 cryptography and unlimited users at ~$1.6k/yr” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with Cerberus FTP Server if you prefer on-premise control with comprehensive features” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Cerberus is often quoted as the best value on-premise option for small to mid-sized business” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · budget prompt · first choice

“Evaluate Cerberus FTP Server (~$1,599/year) or CompleteFTP (free tier + paid plans).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MFT · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cerberus FTP Server, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cerberus FTP Server was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Files.com27 of 3415Compare →

GoAnywhere MFT16 of 342Compare →

Diplomat MFT9 of 341Compare →

Couchdrop8 of 342Compare →

MASV8 of 341Not among the top eight

SFTP To Go8 of 341Not among the top eight

JSCAPE MFT Server8 of 340Not among the top eight

SFTPGo5 of 343Not among the top eight

Axway SecureTransport5 of 340Not among the top eight

ExaVault5 of 340Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cerberus FTP Server. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 34 of the 34 answers that named Cerberus FTP Server and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com25

g2.com25

sftptogo.com22

expertinsights.com21

comparitech.com17

dnsstuff.com15

thectoclub.com15

files.com14

sourceforge.net14

zipdo.co13

181 of the 181 domain citations in answers naming Cerberus FTP Server came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/data-security-and-privacy/the-top-managed-file-transfer-solutions21

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer20

aimultiple.com/managed-file-transfer-solutions18

thectoclub.com/tools/best-file-transfer-management-software14

dnsstuff.com/managed-file-transfer12

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/small-business12

learn.g2.com/best-managed-file-transfer-software12

comparitech.com/data-privacy-management/best-mft-services11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cerberusftp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cerberus FTP Server takes 6% of first choices and Files.com takes 43%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “managed file transfer solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “managed file transfer solutions”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“cerberus ftp server”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 10,833 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,692 · 110 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,238
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

104 ads · 101 text, 3 video · 83 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2024, as REDWOOD SOFTWARE, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 1 in the year, 103 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 3 of 97 in MFT

Segment leader

43%

Files.com

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 34 answers
Its own site cited: in 34 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on cerberusftp.com

311

subdomains included

Content

270

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	195	3	2026-09-09	MFT
Glossary or explainer	66	0	2025-12-21	MFT
Comparison	8	0	2024-05-24	MFT
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-09Using file transfer logs and audit trails to improve security and operations 2 blog
2026-09-02How to replace batch transfer with mft automation blog
2026-08-26Cerberus ftp server by redwood version 2026 3 cloud storage support security hardening and more blog
2026-05-26Cerberus ftp server by redwood version 2026 2 enhancing the quality of life for admins and users blog
2026-03-31Cerberus by redwood version 2026 1 hardening your environment with fips 140 3 and advanced security guardrails blog
2026-02-23Emerging compliance standards impacting file transfer in 2026 blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cerberusftp.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Cerberus FTP Server

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cerberus FTP Server; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cerberus FTP Server Professional Edition 1

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The company

Cerberus FTP Server is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Secure and Compliant FTP Server
cerberusftp.com
For: organizations
cerberusftp.com
Free plan or trial: 25-day free trial cerberusftp.com
Certifications: PCI DSSHIPAAFIPS-140-2GDPR
Customers named: Duke Health Technology SolutionsCompanion Corporation
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What Cerberus FTP Server's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cerberusftp.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cerberus FTP Server's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cerberus FTP Server, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cerberus FTP Server by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cerberus FTP Server is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cerberus FTP Server, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Cerberus FTP Server is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Cerberus FTP Server is among the products AI models recommend first in Managed file transfer this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cerberus-ftp-server--managed-file-transfer-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed file transfer standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cerberus-ftp-server--managed-file-transfer-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cerberus-ftp-server--managed-file-transfer-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed file transfer standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.