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Kiteworks MFT

30Judge labels
2First choices
1Negative 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.
Best standing
4% in MFT for enterprise buyers
Rank 21 of 97 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Kiteworks 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 Kiteworks 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 platform0%21 of 970%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Kiteworks 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 Kiteworks 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 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast10102
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative5 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“Look for modern, hardened platforms... (e.g., Kiteworks or IBM Aspera are positioned more favorably in reviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · negative prompt · first choice
“Often highlighted for its "barricade" security architecture and focus on compliance.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MFT · negative prompt · first choice
“MOVEit or Kiteworks would be stronger choices despite higher costs” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MFT · direct prompt · alternative
“Best For: Regulated industries needing "Zero Trust" content exchange.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MFT · comparative 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 Kiteworks MFT, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kiteworks MFT was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Axway SecureTransport21 of 303Not among the top eight
Progress MOVEit Transfer17 of 301Not among the top eight
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT12 of 303Not among the top eight
GoAnywhere MFT12 of 303Not among the top eight
IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer11 of 302Not among the top eight
Cleo Integration Cloud10 of 301Not among the top eight
Files.com9 of 301Not among the top eight
MOVEit9 of 300Not among the top eight
Globalscape EFT8 of 300Not among the top eight
JSCAPE MFT Server8 of 300Not 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 Kiteworks 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 30 of the 30 answers that named Kiteworks MFT and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

kiteworks.comYour site29
learn.g2.com21
expertinsights.com17
g2.com16
softwarereviews.com16
sftptogo.com15
dnsstuff.com14
static.fortra.com12
cleo.com11
goanywhere.com8

130 of the 159 domain citations in answers naming Kiteworks MFT came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

kiteworks.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Kiteworks MFT 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”
2
Position for “managed file transfer solutions”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
20 a month (“kiteworks mft”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 41,774 a month
Searches its site ranks for
9,071 · 493 in the top three
Sites linking to it
5,970
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
30 ads · 19 video, 7 text, 4 image · 9 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2025, as Kiteworks USA LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 23 in the year, 7 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 21 of 97 in MFT
Segment leader
43%
Files.com
First choices
2 across its categories
Named in
30 answers
Its own site cited
in 30 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 kiteworks.com
14,573
subdomains included
Content
675
counted in the table below
Documentation
118
Product · Integration
101 · 2
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog38932026-09-15MFT, DLP
News or press155122026-09-28MFT, Email security
Template or tool5412026-08-20MFT, DSPM
Case study3402022-05-17
Comparison2132026-09-23MFT, DSPM
Report or ebook6undated
Glossary or explainer6undated
Webinar or virtual event5undated
Conference or event412026-09-18
Podcast or video102026-04-27

Most recent

Events in person

Last twelve months

As the event pages on kiteworks.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page kiteworks.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Kiteworks MFT

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Kiteworks MFT; a claim can dispute any of them.
Kiteworks 7Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) 1Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) MFT 1

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The company

Kiteworks MFT is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Enterprise MFT
For
financial services organizations
Free plan or trial
Free Trial kiteworks.com/platform/compliance/dora
Customers named
City of PleasantonSeyfarth ShawLinde Gas & EquipmentHusch BlackwellGovSmartBluesourceOntrex AGCheck Point
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Kiteworks MFT's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: kiteworks.com, kiteworks.com/platform/compliance/dora, kiteworks.com/solutions, kiteworks.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Kiteworks MFT 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 Kiteworks MFT, 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.
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