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CrushFTP

10Judge labels
1First choices
7Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CrushFTP was named 4 times in MFT, where Files.com led with 43%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mft · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named CrushFTP 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Managed file transferData platform0%96 of 97100%4under 10 labels · led by Files.com at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrushFTP 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 CrushFTP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“CISA lists multiple exploited vulnerabilities, including authentication bypass and sandbox escape issues” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative
“cheaper upfront but require more maintenance—not ideal for mid-sized unless you have dedicated IT” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“CrushFTP has been plagued by a series of critical, actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFT · negative prompt · soft negative
“Other Solutions with Critical Vulnerabilities: CrushFTP (March 2025)” MiniMax M2.5 · MFT · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrushFTP, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrushFTP was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SFTP To Go4 of 102Not among the top eight
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT4 of 100Not among the top eight
GoAnywhere MFT4 of 100Not among the top eight
Progress MOVEit Transfer4 of 100Not among the top eight
Axway SecureTransport3 of 101Not among the top eight
Files.com3 of 101Not among the top eight
Cleo Integration Cloud3 of 100Not among the top eight
MOVEit Transfer3 of 100Not among the top eight
SFTPGo3 of 100Not among the top eight
Wing FTP3 of 100Not 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 CrushFTP. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named CrushFTP and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

crushftp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CrushFTP takes 0% of first choices and Files.com takes 43%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “managed file transfer solution”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “managed file transfer solutions”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
880 a month (“crushftp”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
9 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 390 a month
Searches its site ranks for
58 · 10 in the top three
Sites linking to it
1,478
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 96 of 97 in MFT
Segment leader
43%
Files.com
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
10 answers
Its own site cited
in 10 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.

Follow CrushFTP

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

CrushFTP is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Enterprise Grade File Transfer for Everyone
For
Everyone
Free plan or trial
There's no risk, you can download CrushFTP today and make your purchase decision later. crushftp.com
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What CrushFTP's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: crushftp.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 CrushFTP'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 CrushFTP, 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 CrushFTP by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where CrushFTP 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 CrushFTP, 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.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at crushftp.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.