Kiteworks vs MOVEit comparison

Kiteworks and Progress Software are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Kiteworks is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0, while Progress Software is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3. Kiteworks holds a 6.5% mindshare in MFT, compared to Progress Software’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kiteworks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Kiteworks and MOVEit compete in the secure file transfer solutions category. Kiteworks is advantageous for pricing and customer service, while MOVEit excels in feature richness, appealing to those prioritizing advanced capabilities.

Features: Kiteworks provides strong security with encryption, robust access controls, and compliance capabilities. MOVEit is known for its automation and integration features, allowing seamless operation within complex workflows. The product’s ability to log activities also enhances traceability.

Room for Improvement: Kiteworks can improve by expanding its feature set to match advanced competitors, enhancing mobile compatibility, and streamlining its user interface. MOVEit might benefit from simplifying its deployment process, increasing the support materials for quicker troubleshooting, and refining user accessibility for more straightforward interactions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kiteworks offers a straightforward deployment process backed by excellent customer service for quick onboarding. MOVEit's deployment process is more complex due to its advanced features, but it is well supported by comprehensive resources and customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Kiteworks delivers competitive pricing with a cost-effective setup resulting in a reasonable ROI. MOVEit, however, involves a higher setup cost, justified by its extensive feature set, offering potentially higher ROI for organizations leveraging its full capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Kiteworks

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (16th), Email Security (29th), Content Collaboration Platforms (13th), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (10th)

MOVEit

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Kiteworks is 6.5%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MOVEit is 7.9%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
MOVEit	7.9%
Kiteworks	6.5%
Other	85.6%

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

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KishoreT-Review

Associate Consultant at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Streamlined global file sharing with user-friendly interface and self-service capabilities

I'm not a network expert, however, there must be some room for improvement. Perhaps there could be a notification to users about their bandwidth or network packet loss. If users receive such notifications, they can understand any disruptions are due to issues with their network or bandwidth rather than the site or Kiteworks. Additionally, I work from offshore India, and I told my client manager to communicate with the Kiteworks forum salesman regarding one feature. I noticed the Kiteworks login UI is very basic, lacking customization. Allowing more HTML tags to add hyperlinks or user-friendly information on the home page would be very useful.

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Kiran Raju L

Project Manager at Cognizant

User adaptability impresses with room for enhanced reporting features

The solution lacks a flow view wherein you will not be able to see the integrated jobs in a flow diagram view. This becomes trickier to understand which flow is failing unless you were part of the design team. Reporting for MOVEit needs a lot more work. For example, if I have to pull a task report for a specific requirement such as its history and task attributes, the report doesn't come in a CSV format, which is consumable. It always comes in a scripted format. When you have to show the report to management, they don't understand the scripted format. They need everything in Excel. The reporting feature needs to work on having it in an Excel format. It has been pretty stable, but we were hit by malicious malware attacks in the last two years more comparatively. Depending upon the type of license that is owned and the support with the license, it is up to par with other leading marketing tools.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like Kiteworks or Accellion because it's continuously upgraded. I also know that it probably works with a lot of clients."

"The most valuable aspect of Kiteworks is undoubtedly the private content network. This feature is particularly beneficial for us. Furthermore, it serves as a centralized platform that enables us to track and manage our information exchange."

"We can see when people are sending things. We can definitely see who is sending to whom. From the administrative logs, we can see who is sending to an outside entity, and those logs are retained for quite a while."

"The solution can be used remotely; it's easy to upload and share files."

"The benefits that Kiteworks has provided to its customers in terms of data sovereignty."

"The best part of this solution is that we can generate multiple reports about how the data is transferred and about user information or IP."

"The solution removes the limitations with file attachment size that is found with regular email."

"The top two features are the two-factor authentication, which is pretty good. It's easily understood by the users. And their API is rather robust. We have numerous integrations that work off the API."

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"The renaming and timestamp features are great."

"From an administration standpoint, it's very easy to manage, and I feel pretty confident in the security of the product. From an end-user standpoint also, it's very easy."

"The major advantage is moving files as part of a workflow."

"The most valuable feature of MOVEit is the upload speed."

"The product, MOVEit, is user friendly for anybody who is starting new in scheduling rather than working with other tools, and being on a Windows machine makes your life easier."

"A significant advantage is that MOVEit eliminates the need for manual job monitoring and execution, as jobs are scheduled to run automatically based on scripts, with some running daily and others monthly, like insurance company billing processes that generate reports at month-end without manual intervention."

"It satisfies our requirements but they don't do new improvements as per the market."

"The most valuable feature of MOVEit is that it is the easiest tool to transfer files from point A to point B."

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Cons

"It could be more stable. In the next release, it would be better if it was more stable with improved performance."

"There is no offboarding process for end-users in Kiteworks. It's a manual process. There is no automated syncing with LDAP and checking to see if the account is still active. It's a manual process to get people out of here, which isn't the best way."

"It would be nice if Kiteworks could provide a free version of the platform so that it could be used for a certain number of file transfers. We could be charged a fee if we exceeded the number of allotted file transfers."

"Kiteworks could benefit from enhancing the proposal knowledge base section, specifically regarding the type of work involved. Currently, the knowledge base seems insufficiently dedicated to this topic, making it challenging for new users to access the relevant administrative law. Improving the visual aids and providing clearer explanations could alleviate this issue."

"Perhaps there could be a notification to users about their bandwidth or network packet loss."

"In my experience, their technical support can be a little slow."

"There are always issues when there are bugs or upgrades. The challenge with upgrading is getting more storage from the customer. Every time we have a new version, it requires additional storage. This means that the customer would need to procure more storage for their server, which they don't like because it means additional cost to them. So, I think my request would be that the version upgrades don't require any significant storage requirement."

"We have experienced a few hiccups and bugs when using the admin console and from a user perspective."

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"Reporting for MOVEit needs a lot more work. For example, if I have to pull a task report for a specific requirement such as its history and task attributes, the report doesn't come in a CSV format, which is consumable."

"Something that I would like to see is better upgrade support. We had looked at getting help with an upgrade, and to do it after hours, it was going to be $6,000. It only takes 15 minutes to do. It'd be nice if the after-hour support was a little more reasonable."

"The scheduling features need improvement as currently there are standard scheduling possibilities that could be enhanced with more options and features, such as automatically creating checksum files."

"During version upgrades or feature deployments on MOVEit servers, which are handled by the sysadmin team, we encounter difficulties. The server sometimes becomes unresponsive or crashes, causing MOVEit jobs to fail and generating multiple tickets."

"It takes some time to learn and understand how the solution functions."

"The initial setup is a bit difficult."

"With the new other vendors coming up, they come up with certain features, in addition to the file transfer. But MOVEit does not develop their product. That's why we are looking out for other solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They changed it midstream. We were being charged a certain flat rate for SFTP traffic. For whatever reason, at the beginning of the year, our pricing changed, and we are now being charged more for using a feature of the product than we were when we first bought it. That has been our experience with billing. It turned out to be more expensive than when we started with it."

"I believe it's a little costly, but given the faith that we put into it from a security perspective to maintain the integrity of our patient information that is being transferred through this system, that's a small price to pay. So, on the surface, it might look like a lot of money, but depending on the need for security, which is where we feel it shines, it's okay price-wise."

"The price of Kiteworks is reasonable."

"The license management is changing and confusing. If I could make one change to it, it would be better license management through the API."

"It is not really expensive. I mean, to me it's obviously expensive, but it's worth it."

"The solution is very expensive because we are buying with Malaysian Ringgit and it's sold in US dollars."

"It's cost-effective."

"When compared to other products I've used, I believe MoveIt is worth the money someone might pay to use it."

"Technical support is only available with a paid license."

"I haven't really priced out many other products like this, but I feel it's reasonable. Their upgrade support after hours was going to be $6,000. I just made the decision to wing it and just do it during business hours and call support if there was a problem."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

18%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What is Kiteworks?

Kiteworks is a secured file sharing platform that enables users to collaborate with different parties across a robust offering of secured protected channels. Users have the option of virtual privat...

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What needs improvement with Kiteworks?

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What advice do you have for others considering Kiteworks?

Scalability is impressive. It can be highly available, resilient, and scalable infrastructure. I can confidently give it a nine. It suits any level of organization, whether a small setup with two a...

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What do you like most about MOVEit?

The automation is generally very simple that helps with operational efficiency. Since we mainly created interfaces and scheduled transfers, the tool itself handled the file transfer automation.

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What needs improvement with MOVEit?

From the support perspective, the logging system could be improved. When MOVEit jobs fail and vendor support is needed, sometimes vendor contact details are not properly documented. This creates is...

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What is your primary use case for MOVEit?

We are from a software organization where we have a US healthcare project. The hospitals use the application for file transfer from one location to another location, transferring banking, financial...

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Also Known As

Accellion

Ipswitch File Transfer, Ipswitch Managed File Transfer

Overview

Kiteworks empowers organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content over numerous communications channels: email, file sharing, managed file transfer, APIs, and web forms. The Kiteworks platform unifies, tracks, controls, and secures sensitive content moving within, into, and out of an organization, significantly improving risk management and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Kiteworks

Ipswitch Managed File Transfer is an automated file transfer system to manage, view, and control all file transfer services. You will always know where your files are with predictable and secure delivery, extensive reporting, and easy integration with existing systems.

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Sample Customers

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, National Health Service, Husch Blackwell LLP, NYC Health + Hospitals, Viatris, MITRE Corporation, Chubb, Kraft Heinz, KPMG, Kohler, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Purdue Pharma, AVL

Cambridgeshire County Council, Capita Document & Information Services, Enterasys, City of Guelph, Hermes

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