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 file transformation, sync across clouds, 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. SFTP To Go’s automations tidy files inside the one endpoint: move, rename, PGP, a notification. There is no transformation that parses file contents, no sync engine across clouds, no partner-channel model, 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 transformation that parses file contents, sync across clouds, 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 costs about the same as Files.com Starter at $199 a month. For that money you stop renting a managed SFTP endpoint and get the whole platform: transformation that parses file contents, sync across clouds, partner workflows, an on-premise Agent, and an audit trail that doesn’t expire. The price was never the reason to pick the smaller tool.
Files.com runs the work around the file: automations that trigger on arrival, transformation that parses and reshapes the file’s contents, sync flows across clouds, and routing into other systems. SFTP To Go’s automations stop at the edge of its own endpoint.
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 an audit log kept 7+ years in tamper-proof WORM storage, exportable or streamable 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.
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. When the workload grows past a single SFTP endpoint into AS2, partner onboarding, and compliance scope, the platform is already there.
A managed SFTP endpoint is one of these six capabilities. Files.com ships all of them on one platform, for about the price of the endpoint.
Dedicated, fully managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP 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.
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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.
Certified under FedRAMP 20x at Class A, with Class B in progress.
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.
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 SFTP To Go.
SFTP To Go is a managed SFTP/FTPS endpoint backed by cloud storage: you point clients at it and move files. Files.com is a full File Orchestration Platform: it does managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP too, and adds file transformation that parses file contents, sync across clouds, partner workflows, native apps, an on-premise Agent, and a long-term audit trail. Same job at the entry point, far more platform behind it.
SFTP To Go’s entry plan is $180 a month billed monthly, about the same as Files.com Starter at $199. Starter includes 10 Full Users plus 50 System Users, 1 TB of storage and transfer, every protocol, file transformation, and an audit trail that doesn’t expire. The SFTP To Go entry plan is a managed endpoint with 100 GB and 14-day audit history. The price gap is too small to be the reason to choose the smaller product.
Yes. SFTP To Go includes automations on every plan: file-arrival triggers, scheduled runs, and multi-step sequences that move, rename, encrypt, or send a notification inside the endpoint. Files.com’s automations go further: transformation that parses and reshapes a file’s contents, scheduled sync flows across your clouds, routing into other systems, and partner workflows, with no scripts to write.
SFTP To Go’s entry plan retains audit history for 14 days. Files.com keeps its audit log for 7+ years in tamper-proof WORM storage, exportable or streamable to your SIEM, because the evidence a SOC 2 review or a partner dispute needs rarely shows up inside two weeks.
SFTP To Go does not have a desktop app or a mountable drive. It is a managed endpoint that systems and clients connect to. Files.com adds native apps on top of the same platform: a desktop app that mounts as a drive on Mac and Windows, a mobile app, a CLI, and an on-premise Agent.
Yes. Files.com does everything SFTP To Go does (managed SFTP and FTPS endpoints backed by your cloud storage) and adds the transformation, sync across clouds, partner workflows, native apps, and long-term audit trail a growing team needs next. Teams move so they don’t have to re-platform the first time a single SFTP endpoint stops being enough.
Yes. Files.com publishes its pricing: Starter is $199/month and Power is $499/month, with no contract required.
If a hosted SFTP drop box is all the workload will ever be, SFTP To Go does that job. Workloads rarely stay that small: a partner asks for AS2, or finance asks for last year’s audit trail. On a managed endpoint, each of those means moving to a new product. On Files.com, the capability is already waiting. Choose the platform you won’t outgrow, for the price of the endpoint you would.
Every protocol, file transformation, partner workflows, native apps, and an audit trail kept 7+ years, on one platform 4,000+ organizations already trust, for about the price of a managed SFTP endpoint. Start a 7-day free trial or talk to our team.
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