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, with 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.
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File sharing is one of these six capabilities. Files.com ships the sharing your team came for, plus the MFT half the sharing tools never had.
Dedicated, fully managed SFTP, FTP, and FTPS endpoints, with every protocol your partners already use. No servers to patch and no DMZ to maintain.Replaces IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, AWS Transfer Family
See Cloud SFTP ServerBranded portals, secure share links, and request inboxes, plus co-editing for Office documents. Partners and customers get access with no account and nothing to install.Replaces Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, Egnyte
See CollaborationMove files up to 5 TB at full speed over any distance, with chunked, resumable transfers on standard protocols and custom UDP acceleration in the Agent.Replaces IBM Aspera, Signiant
See Fast TransfersTrigger on a file arriving, a schedule, or an event, then route, convert, and notify, with retries and alerts built in. The reliable replacement for the scripts and cron jobs nobody wants to own.Replaces fragile custom scripts and cron jobs
See AutomationsReshape files inline as they move: convert formats and pull fields out of EDI, HL7, XML, JSON, and CSV, so downstream systems get exactly what they expect.Replaces hand-built parsing and conversion scripts
See Transform & ExtractNative apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android mount your cloud storage as a local drive, so you can retire aging file servers and NAS without changing how people work.Replaces NetApp, Nasuni, aging NAS, Windows file servers
See File Server ReplacementEvery capability runs on one platform — SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA BAA available, with a complete audit trail on every action.
Files.com Starter is $199/month with SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV all included — no per-protocol surcharge, no quote to get a number. When you outgrow the included counts, the overages are cheap, not a forced upgrade.
Files.com has run for 15+ years with zero breaches. The controls your auditors ask about are standard here, not add-ons.
Independently audited, every year.
BAA and DPA available, with EU and regional data residency.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transit.
SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, MFA, and granular role-based access.
Every action logged immutably and streamed to your SIEM.
Third-party tests across the whole platform.
No Level 1 runaround, no script, no callback queue. When something breaks, you reach a seasoned file transfer expert who can actually fix it.
Talk to file transfer experts who understand how you work.
A dedicated Customer Engineer and a step-by-step plan — most teams are live within five business days.
Clear documentation, training materials, and how-to guides.
“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
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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