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SFTPGo

18Judge labels
6First 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
6% in MFT for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 97 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 93
6%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market4 of 97
6%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise45 of 105
0%1 label
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 SFTPGo 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 platform6%4 of 9712%8under 10 labels · led by Files.com at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SFTPGo 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 SFTPGo 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 Flash11002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna10001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase8 labels2
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels4
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“Choose SFTPGo if you have the technical know-how to deploy a container/server and want 100% free, feature-rich automation.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFT · budget prompt · first choice
“Best budget pick: SFTPGo’s managed SaaS “Tiny” plan” GPT-6 Luna · MFT · budget prompt · first choice
“SFTPGo is the best fit” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you have in-house technical expertise → self-host [SFTPGo] for near-zero cost” DeepSeek V4 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.

“cheaper upfront but require more maintenance—not ideal for mid-sized unless you have dedicated IT” Grok 4.1 Fast · MFT · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SFTPGo, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SFTPGo was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Files.com14 of 188Not among the top eight
SFTP To Go8 of 182Not among the top eight
Couchdrop7 of 181Not among the top eight
Cerberus FTP Server5 of 180Not among the top eight
GoAnywhere MFT5 of 180Not among the top eight
Progress MOVEit Transfer4 of 180Not among the top eight
AWS Transfer Family3 of 181Not among the top eight
CrushFTP3 of 181Not among the top eight
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT3 of 180Not among the top eight
ExaVault2 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 SFTPGo. 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 SFTPGo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com13
files.com12
sftptogo.com12
aimultiple.com9
sourceforge.net9
couchdrop.io8
thectoclub.com8
comparitech.com7
exavault.com7
dnsstuff.com6

Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming SFTPGo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer9
files.com/sftp8
couchdrop.io/blog/best-managed-file-transfer-platforms6
exavault.com/blog/sftp-servers-business-benefits6
learn.g2.com/best-managed-file-transfer-software6
thectoclub.com/tools/best-file-transfer-management-software6
aimultiple.com/sftp-server-software5
g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/small-business5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sftpgo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SFTPGo takes 6% of first choices and Files.com takes 43%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “managed file transfer solution”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “managed file transfer solutions”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
1,300 a month (“sftpgo”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
11 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 800 a month
Searches its site ranks for
170 · 9 in the top three
Sites linking to it
701
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
6%
rank 4 of 97 in MFT
Segment leader
43%
Files.com
First choices
6 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 sftpgo.com
29
subdomains included
Content
7
counted in the table below
Documentation
8
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog602026-04-26
Glossary or explainer102026-04-26

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sftpgo.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.

Names read as SFTPGo

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SFTPGo; a claim can dispute any of them.
SFTPGo (Open Source) 1

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The company

SFTPGo is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Modern MFT: Secure SFTP & FTP Server for Cloud, Kubernetes & Local Storage
sftpgo.com
For
teams who want zero maintenance
sftpgo.com
Certifications
HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSSISO 27001-certified company
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers

What SFTPGo's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sftpgo.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for SFTPGo by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where SFTPGo 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 SFTPGo, 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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