Comparison of FTP clients

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of FTP clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

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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
CuteFTP Alex Kunadze 1994 7.0.2 $39.99 (Home), $59.99 (Pro) Proprietary
Cyberduck David V. Kocher  ? 2.4b4 Free GPL
Fetch Fetch Softworks  ? 5.0.1 $25, Free for education Proprietary
FileZilla Tim Kosse, et al. January, 2001 2.2.14b Free GPL
gFTP Brian Masney  ? 2.0.18 Free GPL
lftp Alexander V. Lukyanov  ? 3.1.0 Free GPL
NcFTP  ? 1991 3.1.8 Free Clarified Artistic License
WS_FTP  ?  ? 9 $59.95 (Home), $84.95 (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 without emulation.

Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix
CuteFTP Yes Yes No No No
Cyberduck No Yes No No No
Fetch No Yes No No No
FileZilla Yes No No No No
gFTP No No Yes Yes Yes
lftp No No Yes Yes Yes
NcFTP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WS_FTP Yes No No No No
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix

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 Secure FTP SSH file transfer protocol
CuteFTP Yes Yes Yes (Pro only)
Cyberduck Yes No Yes
Fetch Yes Yes No
FileZilla Yes Yes Yes
gFTP Yes Yes Yes
lftp Yes No No
NcFTP Yes No No
WS_FTP Yes Yes (Pro only) No
FTP Secure FTP SSH file transfer protocol

See also

See also: Comparison of FTP clients, 1991, 1994, 2001, BSD, CuteFTP, Cyberduck, FTP, FTP client, Fetch (FTP client)