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SolarWinds · 1 category · Named, not ranked

SolarWinds Serv-U MFT

15Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative 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.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SolarWinds Serv-U MFT was named 5 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 business17 of 93

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 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 SolarWinds Serv-U 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Managed file transfer	Data platform	2%	14 of 97	20%	5	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 SolarWinds Serv-U 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 SolarWinds Serv-U MFT 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	Negative	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	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0

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

Paraphrase6 labels2

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“I'd recommend starting with Files.com or SolarWinds Serv-U” MiniMax M2.5 · MFT · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If you want a simpler, very capable alternative, consider SolarWinds Serv-U MFT.” GPT-5.4 mini · MFT · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best All-Around Enterprise Solution: SolarWinds Serv-U MFT” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MFT · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“On-premises automation: Globalscape EFT or SolarWinds Serv-U” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.

“Caution level: Medium-High ... Poor support reputation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MFT · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Serv-U MFT, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Serv-U MFT was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Files.com10 of 155Not among the top eight

GoAnywhere MFT9 of 151Not among the top eight

Progress MOVEit Transfer6 of 152Not among the top eight

Axway SecureTransport4 of 150Not among the top eight

AWS Transfer Family3 of 150Not among the top eight

Globalscape EFT3 of 150Not among the top eight

IBM Sterling Secure File Transfer3 of 150Not among the top eight

JSCAPE MFT Server3 of 150Not among the top eight

Axway Managed File Transfer2 of 150Not among the top eight

Cerberus FTP Server2 of 150Not 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 SolarWinds Serv-U 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 15 of the 15 answers that named SolarWinds Serv-U MFT and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com11

files.com8

sftptogo.com8

dnsstuff.com7

solarwinds.comYour site7

worldmetrics.org7

learn.g2.com6

aimultiple.com5

itechguides.com5

softwarereviews.com5

Sixty-two of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Serv-U MFT came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sftptogo.com/blog/best-mft-platforms-managed-file-transfer8

dnsstuff.com/managed-file-transfer7

learn.g2.com/best-managed-file-transfer-software6

files.com/sftp5

aimultiple.com/managed-file-transfer-solutions4

g2.com/categories/managed-file-transfer-mft/small-business4

solarwinds.com/serv-u/use-cases/sftp-server4

exavault.com/blog/sftp-servers-business-benefits3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where SolarWinds Serv-U MFT 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: 20 a month (“solarwinds serv-u mft”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on SolarWinds's site (solarwinds.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 97 in MFT

Segment leader

43%

Files.com

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: in 15 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 SolarWinds Serv-U MFT

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SolarWinds Serv-U MFT; a claim can dispute any of them.

SolarWinds Serv-U 1SolarWinds Serv-U MFT / FTP Server 1

Follow SolarWinds Serv-U MFT

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The company

SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Serv-U MFT.

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On record

Company records

Also from SolarWinds: SolarWinds AppOptics, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds Loggly, SolarWinds NPM and 17 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Let’s get your product installed and configured!
support.solarwinds.com/serv-u-managed-file-transfer-server
For: customers
support.solarwinds.com/serv-u-managed-file-transfer-server
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What SolarWinds Serv-U MFT's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: support.solarwinds.com/serv-u-managed-file-transfer-server, documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/servu-file-share.htm, documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/servu-file-sharing-send.htm, documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/servu-domain-file-sharing.htm, documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/servu-domain-ftp-settings.htm. 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 SolarWinds Serv-U MFT'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 SolarWinds Serv-U MFT, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where SolarWinds Serv-U 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 SolarWinds Serv-U 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.