Egnyte is enterprise file sync-and-share with an inbound FTP endpoint attached. Files.com is a real managed file transfer platform — and it does the human sharing too. Egnyte’s SFTP is inbound-only, password-only, and capped; it has no AS2, no EDI, no format transforms, and no way to push files out to a partner on a schedule. Files.com carries partner-grade transfer, automation, and a protocol-grade audit trail alongside branded sharing — used by 4,000+ organizations and #1 in Gartner Peer Insights for managed file transfer.
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Egnyte is an enterprise file sync-and-share platform with a genuine strength in hybrid access: its Storage Sync and Smart Cache appliances keep hot files on a local device for LAN-speed performance while the cloud stays the system of record. For internal teams that need fast local access to a large cloud file share, that is a real product.
It carries an FTP/SFTP endpoint, but as a bolt-on: inbound-only, password-only with no SSH-key auth, gated to licensed admin and power users, and capped at seven concurrent transfers. There is no AS2, no EDI, no format-aware transformation, and no way to push files out to a partner on a schedule. Its automation moves and notifies inside the collaboration surface; it does not run a partner channel. And its audit is application-event logging, not the protocol-grade chain of custody a regulated transfer workload needs.
Files.com is built for the managed-file-transfer half Egnyte only gestures at. Real SFTP, FTPS, and FTP with key auth and scheduled transfer both ways, AS2 for trading partners, automation and transforms on arrival, and a protocol-grade audit trail — with the branded sharing surface on the same platform.
Egnyte has an FTP/SFTP endpoint, but it’s inbound-only, password-only (no SSH-key authentication), limited to licensed admin and power users, and capped at seven concurrent transfers with a four-hour file limit — and it can’t push files out to a partner’s server on a schedule. Files.com is a full SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV platform with SSH-key auth, per-partner endpoints, and scheduled transfer in both directions — none of those limits.
Egnyte has no AS2 and no EDI, and its workflows move and notify but don’t translate data — no X12, HL7, JSON, XML, or CSV transformation. Files.com ships AS2 for trading partners and format-aware transforms for the data those feeds carry — the integration layer between MFT and your systems that Egnyte doesn’t have.
Egnyte’s automation is collaboration-shaped — an upload or an e-signature triggers a move, a tag, or an approval. It can’t run a partner channel: pull from a vendor’s SFTP on a schedule, transform the payload, deliver it downstream, and alert you when a feed is late. Files.com’s automation and partner workflows are built for exactly that.
Egnyte logs application events — uploads, edits, shares, logins. A regulated file-transfer workload needs more: which IP connected over SFTP, which key authenticated, which file moved when. Files.com keeps a protocol-grade audit trail that is the chain of custody an examiner asks for, retained for years and exportable to your SIEM.
Egnyte’s “hybrid” is a cache-and-sync appliance in front of a cloud tenant that stays the system of record — your data still lives in Egnyte’s cloud. Files.com’s on-premises Agent connects your real on-prem servers and storage over an outbound-only link, and remote mounts put your own S3, Azure, or Google Cloud bucket behind the platform — your data stays yours, in your region.
Egnyte prices per user, billed annually — roughly $22 to $48 per user per month depending on tier — so across a real team it runs into thousands a month. Files.com publishes a flat platform price — $199/month Starter, $499/month Power — covering the human sharing and the system-to-system transfer, with unlimited external parties who never need a seat.
“Our previous solution was on-prem, so we had to allow a third-party vendor onto the entirety of our network. What’s great with Files.com is that this isn’t the case. Everything is being handled at the cloud-based level, whether it’s inbound or outbound on our network.”
What buyers ask most when comparing Files.com to Egnyte.
Egnyte is a capable hybrid file-sharing platform, and for LAN-speed access to a big cloud file share it has a real story. But its SFTP is a bolt-on, it has no AS2 or EDI, its automation can’t run a partner channel, and its audit is activity logging rather than protocol-grade chain of custody. If your workload is partner-facing managed file transfer — the protocols, the scheduling, the transforms, the audit — choose the platform built for it, at a flat price that covers the sharing half too.
Key-based SFTP, AS2, partner channels, format-aware transforms, and a protocol-grade audit trail — with branded sharing on the same platform, at a flat price. Start a free trial or talk to our team.
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