Comparison of FTP client software

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of FTP clients, and related clients that use other file transfer protocols. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.

General information

Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.

	Creator	First public release date	Latest stable version	Cost (USD)	Software license	Copy files over 2GiB
AbleFtp	HiTek Software	?	8.00	free trial , $69.95	Proprietary
AbsoluteTelnet SFTP	Celestial Software	1996	6.01	free trial , $49.95	Proprietary
AceFTP	Visicom Media	1997	3.80.3	free trial , $29.95	Proprietary
ALFTP	ESTsoft	2000	4.1	Freeware	Proprietary
AmiTradeCenter	AmigaZeux	1999	1.4	Freeware	Proprietary
AnyClient	JSCAPE	2007	1.6	Freeware	Proprietary
BitKinex FTP	Barad-Dur, LLC.	2003	2.9	$34	Proprietary
BulletProof FTP aka BPFTP	BulletProof Software LLC	1997	2.61.0.54	free trial , $34.95	Proprietary
Captain FTP	Xnet	2001	4.5	$25, $40 (Upgrade Protected)	Proprietary
Classic FTP	NCH Software	2007	1.13	Free	Proprietary	yes
CoffeeCup Direct FTP	CoffeeCup Software	1998	6.5	Free Trial - $34 to purchase	Proprietary	yes
CoreFTP	CoreFTP.com	2003	2.1	Free (LE), $24.95 (Standard), $34.95 (Pro)	Proprietary
CrossFTP	CrossFTP.com	2006	1.41	Free (Standard), $24.95 (Pro)	Proprietary	Yes
cURL	Daniel Stenberg	1998	7.19.0	Free	MIT
CurlFtpFS	Robson Braga Araujo	2006	0.9.1	Free	GPL
CuteFTP	Alex Kunadze	1994	8.3.2	Free Trial Offers, $39.99 (Home), $59.99 (Windows Pro), $39.99 (Mac Pro), $14.99 (Lite)	Proprietary	Yes
Cyberduck	David V. Kocher	2001	2.7.3	Free	GPL
Directory Opus	GPSoftware	1990	9.0	AUD$85	Proprietary
eFtp Client	Ecode Software	2001	3.0	$29 (Home), $39.99 (Pro)	Proprietary
Exceed	Hummingbird Ltd.	2001	2008	$545.00	Proprietary
F-IT	Jupiter ITS	2008	0.1	Free	MIT
FAR Manager	Eugene Roshal / FAR Group	1996	1.70	$25, Free for ex-USSR	Proprietary
Fetch	Fetch Softworks	1989	5.3	$25, Free for education	Proprietary
FileZilla	Tim Kosse, et al.	January, 2001	3.1.3.1	Free	GPL	Yes
FireFTP	Mime Čuvalo	September, 2004	1.0.2	Free, Charityware	MPL
FlashFXP	iniCom Networks	June 24, 1998	3.6.0.1240	$25.00	Proprietary
Fling FTP	NCH Software	2007	1.0.7	Free	Proprietary	yes
FTP Commander	Internetsoft Corporation	1997	8.80	$49.95	Proprietary
FtpCube	Michael Gilfix	2001	0.5.1	Free	Artistic
FTPEditor	FTPEditor.com	1999	3.3	$29 (Standard), $49 (Pro)	Proprietary
FTP Explorer	FTPx Corp.	October, 1996	1.0.1.53	$35.99	Proprietary
FTPRush	TianHong.NC China	June, 2004	1.0.0622	$29.95	Proprietary
FTP Voyager	Rhino Software, Inc.	February, 1997	15.0.0.2	$39.95 (Standard), $49.95 (Secure)	Proprietary
Fugu	University of Michigan Research Systems Unix Group	2003	1.2.0	Free	BSD
gFTP	Brian Masney	1998	2.0.18	Free	GPL
Global Downloader	Actysoft Inc	2005	1.4.0.1	$24,95	Proprietary
Glub Tech Secure FTP	Glub Tech, Inc.	1999	2.5.16	$25.00 commercial, Free noncommercial	Proprietary
Interarchy	Stairways Software Pty Ltd	1993 (as Anarchie)	9.0	$59.00	Proprietary
Kasablanca	Magnus Kulke	2002	0.4.0.2	Free	GPL
KFTPGrabber	Jernej Kos	2003	0.8.1	Free	GPL
LeechFTP	Jan Debis	1998	1.3 (Discontinued)	Free	Proprietary
lftp	Alexander V. Lukyanov	August, 1996	3.5.11	Free	GPL
MacFusion	MacFusion Project	2007	1.2 Beta 3	Free	Apache License 2.0
Mosaic	NCSA	1993	3.0	Free	?
MOVEit Freely	Standard Networks, Inc.	2002	5.0	Free	Proprietary
NcFTP	NcFTP Software Inc.	1991	3.1.9	Free	Clarified Artistic License
net2ftp	David C. Gartner	January, 2003	0.96	Free	GPL
Null FTP Client	VisionWorks Solutions	October, 2008	1.0	Free (Standard), $59.95 (Pro)	Proprietary	yes
pbFtpClient	Level5Software	2007	5.30	free	Proprietary
Red Bird SFX - Secure File Transfer	Kandmtech, LLC	2004	?	$49.95	Proprietary
Robo-FTP - Secure Automated File Transfer	Serengeti Systems Incorporated	January 30, 2001	3.5.0	Free Trial, $149.99	Proprietary
SecureFX	VanDyke Software Inc.	2007	4.5	$59.95	Proprietary
SftpDrive	Magnetk LLC	2005	1.7.7	$39	Proprietary
SFTPPlus	Pro:Atria Ltd	2005	2.0	Commercial, flexible edu etc.	Proprietary
SmartFTP	SmartSoft Ltd	1998	3.0.1023.4	$36.95 / $49.95	Proprietary
Sysax FTP Automation	Codeorigin, LLC	2000	4.0	Free personal, $97 commercial	Proprietary
Transmit	Panic, Inc.	1998	3.6.6	$29.95	Proprietary
Tunnelier	BitVise	2000	4.26	Free personal, $44.95 commercial	Proprietary
WebDrive	South River Technologies	1998	7.31	$54.95, free trial	Shareware
WinSCP	Martin Prikryl	2000	4.1.6	Free	GPL	yes
WISE-FTP	AceBIT	1998	5.5.9	49.00	Proprietary
WS FTP	Ipswitch, Inc.	1996	2007.00	$39.95 (Home), $54.95 (Pro)	Proprietary
	Creator	First public release date	Latest stable version	Cost (USD)	Software license

Operating system support

The operating systems the clients can run on.

Client	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix	AmigaOS
AbsoluteTelnet SFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
AceFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
ALFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
AmiTradeCenter	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
AnyClient	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
BitKinex	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
BulletProof FTP	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Captain FTP	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Classic FTP	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
CoffeeCup Direct FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
CoreFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
CrossFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
cURL (CL)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CurlFtpFS	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
CuteFTP	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Cyberduck	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Directory Opus	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
eFtp Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Exceed	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
FAR Manager	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Fetch	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
FileZilla	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
FireFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
FlashFXP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Fling FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
FtpCube	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
FTPEditor	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
FTP Explorer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
FTPRush	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
FTP Voyager	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Fugu	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
gFTP	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Global Downloader	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Glub Tech Secure FTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interarchy	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Kasablanca	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
KFTPGrabber	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
LeechFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
lftp (CL)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MacFusion	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Mosaic	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
MOVEit Freely	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
NcFTP (CL)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
net2ftp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Null FTP Client	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
pbFtpClient	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
Red Bird SFX - Secure File Transfer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Robo-FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
SftpDrive	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
SFTPPlus	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
SmartFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Sysax FTP Automation	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Transmit	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Tunnelier	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
WebDrive	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
WinSCP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
WISE-FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
WS FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Client	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix	AmigaOS

(CL) Command-Line interface only - no GUI

Protocol support

Information about what internet protocols the clients support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the clients or extensions that provide such functionality.

	FTP	FTP over SSH (secure FTP)	SFTP	FTPS (FTP over SSL)	FXP (Site2site transfer)	DAV / HTTP(S)	P2P	Compression	Remote Compression	API / Commandline available
AbsoluteTelnet SFTP	No	No	Yes	No	No	No		Yes	No
AceFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		No	No
ALFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		No
AmiTradeCenter	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	?		No	No	ARexx
BitKinex	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Yes
BulletProof FTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		No
Captain FTP	Yes	No	Yes	Yes		No		No
Classic FTP	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No		No
CoffeeCup Direct FTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
CoreFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	No	Yes
CrossFTP	Yes	Yes (Pro only)	Yes (Pro only)	Yes (Pro only)	Yes (Pro only)	Yes (Pro only)		Yes	No	Yes
cURL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes		Yes	No	Yes (Only)
CurlFtpFS	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No		No	No
CuteFTP	Yes	No	Yes (Pro only)	Yes	Yes (Pro only)	Yes (HTTP(S) - Pro only)	No	Yes (Pro only)	No
Cyberduck	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes				No
Directory Opus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	No	No
Exceed	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No		Yes	No	No
FAR Manager	Yes		Yes (with WinSCP plugin)				No	No
Fetch	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes			No
FileZilla	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No		Yes	No	Yes (basic)
FireFTP	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
FlashFXP	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Fling FTP	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No		No	Yes	Yes
FTP Commander	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
FtpCube	Yes	No	Yes
FTPEditor	Yes	No	Yes	No				No
FTP Explorer	Yes	No	No	No				No
FTPRush	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Yes	No	Yes
FTP Voyager	Yes	Yes (Secure only)	Yes (Secure only)	Yes (Secure only)			No	No
Fugu	No		Yes	No	No	No		No
gFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (control connection only)	Yes			No
Global Downloader	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (HTTP(S))	Yes	No	No	No
Glub Tech Secure FTP	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No		Yes	Yes	Yes
Interarchy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		No
Kasablanca	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No		No
KFTPGrabber	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes			No
LeechFTP	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		No
lftp	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (Partial)		No
Mosaic	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		No
MOVEit Freely	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No		Yes	No	Yes (Only)
NcFTP	Yes	No	No					No
Null FTP Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
pbFtpClient	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Red Bird SFX - Secure File Transfer	No	No	Yes	No	No	No		Yes		No
Robo-FTP Secure Automated File Transfer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes -HTTP(S)		No	No	Yes
SftpDrive	No	No	Yes	No	No	No			No
SFTPPlus	Yes	No	Yes	Yes		Yes		No
SmartFTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Sysax FTP Automation	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No		No	No	Yes
Transmit	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes		No
WebDrive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	No	Yes
WinSCP	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes (SFTP only)	No	Yes
WISE-FTP	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Yes	Yes
WS FTP	Yes	Yes	Yes (Pro only)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
ZipDeploy	Yes	No	No	No	No	No		Yes	Yes	Yes
	FTP	FTP over SSH (secure FTP)	SFTP	FTPS (FTP over SSL)	FXP (Site2site transfer)	DAV / HTTP(S)	P2P	Compression	Remote Compression	API / Commandline available

See also

• Category:FTP clients
• Comparison of SSH clients