Every category where a model named ExaVault 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	2%	12 of 97	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Files.com at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ExaVault 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 ExaVault 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase9 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Best if you want the cheapest possible option: ExaVault” Perplexity Sonar · MFT · budget prompt · first choice

“ExaVault offers a hosted solution that can simplify these operational aspects for businesses.” Mistral Small · MFT · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“ExaVault - They provide a self-hosted SFTP solution with advanced security features” Llama 4 Maverick · MFT · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for: Mid-sized companies wanting ease of use with strong security” MiniMax M2.5 · MFT · paraphrase 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 ExaVault, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ExaVault was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Files.com14 of 1810Not among the top eight

Couchdrop6 of 183Not among the top eight

Cerberus FTP Server5 of 181Not among the top eight

GoAnywhere MFT4 of 180Not among the top eight

SFTP To Go3 of 181Not among the top eight

IBM Aspera3 of 180Not among the top eight

SFTPGo2 of 181Not among the top eight

AWS Transfer Family2 of 180Not among the top eight

Axway SecureTransport2 of 180Not among the top eight

FileZilla Server2 of 180Not 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 ExaVault. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named ExaVault and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com11

g2.com11

exavault.comYour site9

sftptogo.com9

worldmetrics.org9

aimultiple.com8

files.com8

zipdo.co7

couchdrop.io6

kiteworks.com6

Seventy-five of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming ExaVault came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/small-business8

exavault.com/blog/sftp-servers-business-benefits7

files.com/sftp7

aimultiple.com/managed-file-transfer-solutions6

couchdrop.io/blog/best-secure-ftp-sftp-servers6

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer6

comparitech.com/data-privacy-management/best-mft-services5

thectoclub.com/tools/best-file-transfer-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

exavault.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, ExaVault takes 2% 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: 170 a month (“exavault”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 9,408 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,473 · 95 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,270
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

rank 12 of 97 in MFT

Segment leader

43%

Files.com

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: in 18 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 exavault.com

146

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

5 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	48	7	2026-09-01	EDI
Comparison	5	0	2025-06-20
Glossary or explainer	3	0	2026-06-09

Most recent

2026-09-01Powershell sftp blog
2026-08-25Python edi blog
2026-08-18Sftp automation blog
2026-08-11Sftp api blog
2026-08-04S3 to sftp blog
2026-07-28Ssis sftp blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page exavault.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.

Follow ExaVault

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The company

ExaVault is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Free SFTP & FTP Server
exavault.com
For: For teams that must keep file transfer infrastructure inside the datacenter — classified workloads, air-gapped networks, regulated environments.
exavault.com
Price stated: Free up to 50 users; $99/month per 50-user pack above that; Enterprise starts at $7,499/year. exavault.com
Starting price: 0 exavault.com
Free plan or trial: Free for deployments up to 50 users. exavault.com
Integrations claimed: 50 exavault.com/product/share-files
Certifications: SOC 2 Type IIHIPAAGDPRITARPCI DSS Level 2
Hosting: seven global data regionsEU-only options
Customers named: NE2NEGerald PrintingMarc Jacobs

What ExaVault's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: exavault.com, exavault.com/pricing, exavault.com/product/share-files. 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 ExaVault'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 ExaVault, 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 ExaVault by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ExaVault 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 ExaVault, 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.