--- title: "Against managed file transfer · Privatta" description: "The enterprise platforms: a full audit trail, and a server to run." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/compare/managed-transfer/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Competitive comparison · 3 of 5 # Against managed file transfer. The enterprise platforms: a full audit trail, and a server to run. | Product | No copy | E2E enc. | LAN mode | Internet | Air-gap | Per-user ACL | Groups | Audit log | Device auth | Desktop | Pricing | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Privatta★ This product · tick = every edition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Pro | Yes | Pro | Pro | Enterprise | Pro | Yes | Free · Pro €19/mo · Enterprise: ask us | | Managed File Transfer (MFT) | | | | | | | | | | | | | MOVEit Transfer | No | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Custom ($10k+/yr) | | GoAnywhere MFT | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Custom ($3k+/yr) | | IBM Sterling B2B Integrator | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Custom (enterprise) | | Axway AMPLIFY | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Custom | | Biscom | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Custom | | Globalscape EFT | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Custom | Yes / full support~Partial / via plugin No Data as of June 2026 — verify current product capabilities before purchasing decisions. Contents 1. 01Managed File Transfer (MFT) — Enterprise-grade audit, server-grade overhead 01 ## Managed File Transfer (MFT) — Enterprise-grade audit, server-grade overhead MOVEit Transfer, GoAnywhere MFT, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Axway AMPLIFY, Biscom, and Globalscape EFT are the established enterprise-grade managed file transfer platforms. They have everything the compliance team asks for: full audit trails, per-user and group access control, machine authentication, integration with directory services, encryption at rest and in transit, and regulatory certifications across the board. They are the correct answer for large organisations that need to demonstrate control over every byte that moves across a boundary. The trade-off is operational complexity and cost. These platforms are server-deployed — someone on your team must provision, harden, maintain, and update the server. 'Self-hosted' in the MFT world means a dedicated server instance, typically requiring a DBA and a sysadmin. Pricing starts in the thousands of dollars per year for the smallest deployments and scales to six figures for large enterprise agreements. There is no desktop app that a user just runs; users interact via a web portal or a CLI client. For a 500-person organisation with a dedicated IT team and a compliance mandate, this trade-off is often the right one. For a 20-person professional services firm, a clinical research team, or a distributed remote organisation, the operational overhead is prohibitive. Privatta delivers the audit log, the per-user ACL, and the machine whitelist as a desktop application that a non-technical user can set up in under ten minutes. - MFT platforms require self-hosted server infrastructure — ongoing maintenance by IT staff - No native desktop application — users interact via a web portal or CLI - Pricing typically starts at $3,000–$10,000/year and scales significantly - Correct choice for large enterprises with dedicated IT; prohibitive overhead for smaller organisations - Privatta delivers the MFT governance model as a desktop app with no server to maintain [Previous Against other direct-transfer tools.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/compare/direct-transfer/) [Next Against encrypted cloud storage.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/compare/encrypted-storage/) [All of Privatta compare](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/compare/)