Files.com is the full File Orchestration Platform alternative to SFTP To Go. SFTP To Go gives you a managed SFTP and FTPS endpoint backed by cloud storage. Files.com does that too — and adds an automation engine, file transformation, partner workflows, native apps, and an audit trail that doesn’t expire. For about the same price, you get the whole platform instead of one endpoint. Files.com is used by 4,000+ organizations and is #1 in Gartner Peer Insights for managed file transfer.
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SFTP To Go is a managed SFTP/FTPS endpoint backed by cloud storage. You point clients and partners at it, files land in a bucket, and you reach them over SFTP, FTPS, or an S3 API. For a team that needs exactly that, a hosted SFTP drop box and nothing more, it does the job.
The ceiling shows up fast. There is no automation engine to run work when a file arrives, no partner-channel model, no file transformation, no on-premise Agent, and the entry plan keeps audit history for 14 days. The moment the workload grows past “drop a file on SFTP,” the managed endpoint has no next gear.
Files.com is the platform that doesn’t run out of room. It serves the same SFTP, FTPS, and FTP endpoints, then adds an automation engine, transformation, partner workflows, native apps and a mountable drive, and a long-term audit log, for about the same monthly price as a managed SFTP endpoint.
SFTP To Go’s entry plan is $180/month. Files.com Starter is $199, nineteen dollars more. For that difference you stop renting a managed SFTP endpoint and get the whole platform: an automation engine, partner workflows, file transformation, an on-premise Agent, and an audit trail that doesn’t expire. The price was never the reason to pick the smaller tool.
SFTP To Go moves files to and from an endpoint. Files.com runs the work around the file: automations that trigger on arrival, sync flows across clouds, and transformation that reshapes a file the moment it lands. So a workflow runs end to end with no one moving files by hand and no Lambda to babysit.
SFTP To Go’s entry plan keeps audit history for 14 days. A compliance review or a partner dispute rarely surfaces inside two weeks. Files.com writes every login, transfer, and permission change to a tamper-proof audit log you can keep long-term, export, or stream to your SIEM, so the record is there when someone finally asks for it.
Mount Files.com as a drive on Mac and Windows, work from the mobile app, script it from the CLI, and bridge on-prem servers with the Agent. A managed SFTP endpoint is something systems connect to; Files.com is also something your team works in.
SFTP To Go is built and run by a small team alongside other products. Files.com is the #1-rated MFT platform in Gartner Peer Insights, used by 4,000+ organizations including Equifax, Cognizant, and Michelin, in production for 15 years with zero breaches. When the workload grows past a single SFTP endpoint into AS2, partner onboarding, and compliance scope, the platform is already there.
“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.”
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SFTP To Go is a clean, well-built managed SFTP endpoint, and if a hosted SFTP drop box is genuinely all you will ever need, it does that. But it costs about what Files.com Starter costs, and for that money Files.com gives you the automation engine, transformation, partner workflows, native apps, and the long-term audit trail a real workload grows into. Choose the platform you won’t outgrow, for the price of the endpoint you would.
Every protocol, an automation engine, native apps, and an audit trail that doesn’t expire — on one platform 4,000+ organizations already trust, for about the price of a managed SFTP endpoint. Start a free trial or talk to our team.
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