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IBM Aspera

21Judge labels

0First choices

6Negative labels

10 / 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Aspera was named 7 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.

Small business78 of 93

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprise29 of 105

under the label threshold

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 IBM Aspera 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	0%	23 of 97	0%	7	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 IBM Aspera 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 IBM Aspera 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	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“(e.g., Kiteworks or IBM Aspera are positioned more favorably in reviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · negative prompt · first choice

“Choose IBM Aspera if transfer speed for very large files is the top priority.” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · comparative prompt · alternative

“IBM Aspera: High-speed transfers, Bandwidth control, On-premise or cloud” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best "Entry-Level" Enterprise Solution: IBM Aspera Essentials” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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 IBM Aspera, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Aspera was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Files.com11 of 213Not among the top eight

Axway SecureTransport9 of 210Not among the top eight

GoAnywhere MFT8 of 212Not among the top eight

JSCAPE MFT Server7 of 212Not among the top eight

Progress MOVEit Transfer7 of 212Not among the top eight

Globalscape EFT6 of 210Not among the top eight

IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer6 of 210Not among the top eight

AWS Transfer Family5 of 210Not among the top eight

Fortra GoAnywhere MFT4 of 212Not among the top eight

MASV4 of 210Not 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 IBM Aspera. 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 21 of the 21 answers that named IBM Aspera and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com14

g2.com14

learn.g2.com12

expertinsights.com10

fast.io8

sftptogo.com8

goanywhere.com7

kiteworks.com7

progress.com7

thectoclub.com6

Ninety-three of the ninety-three domain citations in answers naming IBM Aspera came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/managed-file-transfer-solutions12

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

expertinsights.com/data-security-and-privacy/the-top-managed-file-transfer-solutions10

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/small-business9

fast.io/resources/mft-software7

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer7

thectoclub.com/tools/best-file-transfer-management-software6

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM Aspera stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“ibm aspera”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 71 a month
Its own site: It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 23 of 97 in MFT

Segment leader

43%

Files.com

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 21 answers
Its own site cited: in 21 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.

Names read as IBM Aspera

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

IBM Aspera Essentials 1IBM Aspera Managed File Transfer (MFT) 1

Follow IBM Aspera

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

IBM is the company behind IBM Aspera.

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On record

Company records

Also from IBM: IBM AI Fairness 360, IBM API Connect, IBM Apptio Cloudability, IBM Aspera Managed File Transfer, IBM Business Automation Workflow, IBM Cloud Databases, IBM Cloud Kubernetes, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and 98 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: IBM Aspera provides fast, secure large‑file transfer that eliminates slow, unreliable data movement and supports demanding workflows in hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
ibm.com/products/aspera
For: Great for individuals with a simple, one-time file-sharing use case; Great for small organizations delivering simple, fixed-volume projects to multiple locations; Best for mid-size companies in need of multiple workspaces and simple automation; Designed specifically for entry-level, on-premise deployments
ibm.com/products/aspera
Price stated: Starting at $1.07 USD per GB of transfer per month*; Starting at $22.10 USD monthly plan with 1TB/year*; Starting at $660.00 USD monthly plan with 6TB/year*; Starting at $11,916.00 USD per license per year* ibm.com/products/aspera
Starting price: 1.07 ibm.com/products/aspera
Free plan or trial: Free 14-day trial ibm.com/products/aspera
Certifications: ISO27001
Hosting: UK
Customers named: FILMFEST MÜNCHENFOX SportsDMCbaseLCTVFOX Sports AustraliaCinedigmNational Instruments
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What IBM Aspera's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/products/aspera, ibm.com/case-studies/base-ibm-aspera, ibm.com/case-studies/fox-sports-aspera, ibm.com/products/aspera/sync, ibm.com/products/aspera/support. 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 IBM Aspera'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 IBM Aspera, 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 IBM Aspera by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where IBM Aspera 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 IBM Aspera, 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.