Every category where a model named Progress MOVEit Transfer 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	8%	2 of 97	35%	31	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Progress MOVEit Transfer 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 Progress MOVEit Transfer 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	3	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	1	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	2	3

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

Direct16 labels3

Paraphrase7 labels3

Comparative22 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative20 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative80 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 12 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.

“If you want one name: Progress MOVEit Transfer is the safer recommendation for a mid-sized B2B company with serious security/compliance needs.” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose MOVEit if you want a well-known secure MFT platform with automation, compliance, and easier end-user sharing.” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · comparative prompt · first choice

“Identified as the best for mid-market organizations, offering a good balance of features, compliance, and cost.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MFT · direct prompt · first choice

“Recent rankings (e.g., SoftwareReviews 2024) highlight GoAnywhere/MOVEit for balanced performance.” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · comparative 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.

“The vulnerability is reportedly being actively exploited... could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorised access to the MOVEit Transfer environment” Muse Glimmer 30B · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative

“Recommendation: Avoid unless fully air-gapped, heavily firewalled, and you verify the latest patches independently.” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative

“you want to avoid heavy enterprise platforms (such as Progress MOVEit, Axway, or GoAnywhere MFT)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFT · budget prompt · hard negative

“High-Risk: Major Security Concerns ... 1. Progress MOVEit Transfer ... Massive 2023 breach” Kimi K2 · MFT · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Progress MOVEit Transfer, over the 80 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Progress MOVEit Transfer was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortra GoAnywhere MFT44 of 805Compare →

Files.com31 of 809Compare →

IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer31 of 809Not among the top eight

Axway SecureTransport31 of 803Not among the top eight

Cleo Integration Cloud29 of 805Compare →

GoAnywhere MFT24 of 806Compare →

AWS Transfer Family21 of 803Not among the top eight

JSCAPE MFT Server18 of 801Not among the top eight

Kiteworks MFT17 of 803Not among the top eight

Globalscape EFT14 of 800Not 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 Progress MOVEit Transfer. 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 75 of the 80 answers that named Progress MOVEit Transfer and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com43

kiteworks.com42

sftptogo.com39

learn.g2.com37

softwarereviews.com29

aimultiple.com27

cleo.com26

expertinsights.com24

goanywhere.com24

dnsstuff.com22

313 of the 313 domain citations in answers naming Progress MOVEit Transfer came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer38

learn.g2.com/best-managed-file-transfer-software37

expertinsights.com/data-security-and-privacy/the-top-managed-file-transfer-solutions24

kiteworks.com/managed-file-transfer/managed-file-transfer-solutions-enterprises22

softwarereviews.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-enterprise22

dnsstuff.com/managed-file-transfer21

cleo.com/blog/knowledge-base-top-mft-solutions20

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/enterprise16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

progress.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Progress MOVEit Transfer takes 8% 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: 30 a month (“progress moveit transfer”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 964,341 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 17,347 · 1,676 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 19,354
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 104 text, 14 image, 2 video · 55 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2023, as Progress Software Corporation, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 77 in the year, 43 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 2 of 97 in MFT

Segment leader

43%

Files.com

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 80 answers
Its own site cited: in 75 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 progress.com

15,765

subdomains included

Content

7,655

counted in the table below

Documentation

2,275

Product · Integration

184 · 213

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	5,893	12	2026-09-28	NoSQL, ETL
Webinar or virtual event	785	0	2025-10-20	Data warehouses, ETL
Podcast or video	477	0	2025-10-23	APM, NoSQL
Conference or event	141	undated
Glossary or explainer	103	11	2026-09-16	CSPM, API management
Comparison	95	4	2026-08-05
Report or ebook	81	0	2026-05-21	Data warehouses, ETL
Case study	54	11	2026-09-25
News or press	17	undated
Template or tool	9	0	2026-03-24

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page progress.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (10); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as Progress MOVEit Transfer

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

Progress MOVEit 23

Follow Progress MOVEit Transfer

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Progress MOVEit Transfer is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Transfer data securely, assure compliance and easily automate transfers while controlling user access.
progress.com
Free plan or trial: Request free trial progress.com/flowmon/platform
Certifications: SOC 2 Type ISOC 2 Type IIHIPAAPCI:DSSISO 27001:2022SIG
Customers named: Volkswagen
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What Progress MOVEit Transfer's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: progress.com, progress.com/podio/pricing, trust.progress.com, progress.com/flowmon/platform, progress.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Progress MOVEit Transfer'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 Progress MOVEit Transfer, 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 Progress MOVEit Transfer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Progress MOVEit Transfer 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 Progress MOVEit Transfer, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Progress MOVEit Transfer is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Progress MOVEit Transfer is among the products AI models recommend first in Managed file transfer this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/progress-moveit-transfer--managed-file-transfer-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed file transfer standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/progress-moveit-transfer--managed-file-transfer-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed file transfer standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/managed-file-transfer/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/progress-moveit-transfer--managed-file-transfer-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Managed file transfer, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Managed file transfer standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.