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Fortra GoAnywhere MFT

52Judge labels
5First choices
24Negative labels
11 / 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.
Best standing
6% in MFT for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 97 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 47% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Fortra GoAnywhere MFT →
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 Fortra GoAnywhere MFT 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 platform4%8 of 9747%19criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fortra GoAnywhere MFT 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 Fortra GoAnywhere MFT 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 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash02013
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast10012
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash10012
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K201012
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.510102
GPT-6 Luna00112
Muse Glimmer 30B10012

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
Direct10 labels3
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative10 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labels2
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative52 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 9 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.

“Recent rankings (e.g., SoftwareReviews 2024) highlight GoAnywhere/MOVEit for balanced performance.” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · comparative prompt · first choice
“It is the fastest growing MFT product in the world... Best for centralized automation and control” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd usually start with Fortra GoAnywhere MFT or Progress MOVEit as the shortlist” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · direct prompt · first choice
“Cleo Integration Cloud or GoAnywhere MFT are the strongest options” MiniMax M2.5 · MFT · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“This solution has had critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0204) that allow unauthorized users to create admin users and bypass authentication” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative
“The Fortra advisory FI-2025-012 marks Severity Critical for CVE-2025-10035” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative
“Recommendation: Migrate away if possible—too much breach history.” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative
“2. Fortra GoAnywhere MFT ... Multiple critical vulnerabilities” Kimi K2 · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fortra GoAnywhere MFT was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Axway SecureTransport22 of 523Not among the top eight
IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer20 of 525Not among the top eight
AWS Transfer Family13 of 522Not among the top eight
Kiteworks MFT12 of 523Not among the top eight
JSCAPE MFT Server11 of 521Not among the top eight
SFTP To Go9 of 520Not among the top eight
Globalscape EFT8 of 520Not 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 Fortra GoAnywhere MFT. 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 52 of the 52 answers that named Fortra GoAnywhere MFT and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com30
kiteworks.com29
sftptogo.com25
g2.com21
expertinsights.com19
aimultiple.com17
cleo.com17
goanywhere.com17
softwarereviews.com17
dnsstuff.com13

205 of the 205 domain citations in answers naming Fortra GoAnywhere MFT came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

fortra.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Fortra GoAnywhere MFT takes 4% 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”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
140 a month (“fortra goanywhere mft”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
8 a month
Its company's site
fortra.com shared with Fortra's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 125,581 a month
Searches its site ranks for
18,051 · 898 in the top three
Sites linking to it
8,577
Paid Google search
2 searches its ads show for, about 2 clicks and $34 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 96 text, 20 image, 4 video · 60 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2022, as Fortra, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 45 in the year, 75 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
4%
rank 8 of 97 in MFT
Segment leader
43%
Files.com
First choices
5 across its categories
Named in
52 answers
Its own site cited
in 52 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.

Names read as Fortra GoAnywhere MFT

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Fortra GoAnywhere MFT; a claim can dispute any of them.
Fortra GoAnywhere 2Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT 1

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The company

Fortra is the company behind Fortra GoAnywhere MFT.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Secure file transfer software
For
IT and cybersecurity professionals
Price stated
Request Pricing fortra.com/product-lines/goanywhere
Free plan or trial
Start Trial fortra.com/product-lines/goanywhere
Certifications
PCI DSSHIPAAISOGLBASoxData Privacy Acts worldwide
Customers named
Nemours Children's Health SystemScolari’s Food & Drug CompanyMonterey Mushrooms, Inc.Alliant Credit UnionNorthwestern University
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Fortra GoAnywhere MFT's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: fortra.com/product-lines/goanywhere, fortra.com/offers/goanywhere-mft-sftp, fortra.com/platform/secure-collaboration, fortra.com/solutions/secure-file-transfer, fortra.com/de/mft-buyers-guide-cta-german. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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