Kaspersky Premium

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Product

Kaspersky Premium is a consumer security suite for individuals and families combining antivirus, privacy and identity protection, performance tools and a VPN across Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Linux. **Reviews Disclaimer These reviews relate to various Kaspersky products, all of which are underpinned by Kaspersky’s core security technologies. This recognition highlights our full-scale protection — combining advanced security, privacy , and identity protection . Continuously protects your devices against viruses and malware, including complex threats like fileless attacks and rootkits. Among the capabilities recorded for it are behavioral detection, host firewall, malware detection and ransomware protection.

Current Version: 21.16.6.467
Product Page: kaspersky.com/premium
Market: Consumer
Licence: Paid
Price: USD 64.99 / annual
Record Created: 2026-08-20
Last Updated: 2026-10-28

Vendor

Kaspersky was founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, who had been writing antivirus code since 1989, after finding the Cascade virus on his own work machine. It is privately held — unusually for a vendor of its size it has never listed or been acquired — and employs more than 6,000 people across some 30 offices, with its European headquarters in Zurich. Home users buy three tiers: Kaspersky Standard, Kaspersky Plus and Kaspersky Premium, with Kaspersky Safe Kids, Kaspersky VPN and Kaspersky Password Manager sold separately. Businesses start at Kaspersky Small Office Security and move up the Kaspersky Next line — Kaspersky Next EDR Foundations, Kaspersky Next EDR Optimum and Kaspersky Next XDR Optimum, up to Kaspersky Next XDR Expert — with Kaspersky MDR as the managed service above them. Two things are worth knowing before comparing its results with anyone else's. Its research team, GReAT, is among the industry's most prolific publishers of state-actor malware analysis. And in June 2024 the US Department of Commerce prohibited the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States, and US customers were migrated to another vendor's product; the company continues to sell elsewhere and to enter the European public test cycles, which is where its results in this index come from. Vendor page →

Website: kaspersky.com
Country: Russia
Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
Year Established: 1997
Customers: 200K organisations
Users: 400M users
Revenue: $836.0M (2025)

Government restrictions

Banned or sanctioned

Sale in the US prohibited since 2024; Entity List; FCC Covered List; banned from US federal systems; sanctioned in Poland; official warnings in DE, UK, IT, LT, NL.

Where	Measure	Date	Effect
US	Commerce (BIS) final determination	2024-06-24	No sale or updates in the US or to US persons (wind-down ended 2024-09-29).
US	Entity List	2024-06-24	Export licence needed, presumption of denial.
US	Treasury sanctions on 12 executives	2024-06-21	Executives designated; the company is not.
US	FCC Covered List	2022-03-25	No federal subsidy (USF) money for its products.
US	NDAA FY2018 §1634 / DHS BOD 17-01	2017	Banned from US federal systems.
PL	National sanctions list	2022-04-26	Asset freeze on AO Kaspersky Lab and its Polish entities.
IT	Decree-Law 21/2022 art. 29	2022-03-21	Public administrations must move off Russian security products.
DE	BSI warning (§7 BSIG)	2022-03-15	Official advice to replace Kaspersky antivirus; not a legal ban.
UK	NCSC guidance	2022-03	Reconsider reliance on Russian-controlled technology; not a ban.

A sales ban, asset freeze, export ban or federal procurement ban that names the company itself. Each measure above names Kaspersky Lab, not this product specifically, and applies only where it says. CSI records what a government has published and links to it; this is not an assessment of the product, and the product stays listed so the record can be read. Lists were last checked on 2026-10-09.

Platforms

Android	native
iOS	native
Linux	native
macOS	native
Windows	native

Target Market

Consumer secondary

Capabilities

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Subscription	not stated	yearly	USD 64.99

Versions

21.16.6.467Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-06-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-10-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-10-20lab report ↗

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: Windowslab report ↗

SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionAAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — July–October 20252025-11-17

Advanced+Protection Rate: 99.5%False Positives: 6

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — February–May 20262026-06-15

Advanced+Protection Rate: 99.8%

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20252025-10-15

Offline Detection Rate: 93.7%Online Detection Rate: 98.1%Online Protection Rate: 99.99%False Positives: 3

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — March 20262026-04-15

Offline Detection Rate: 92.1%Online Detection Rate: 97.8%Online Protection Rate: 99.97%False Positives: 2

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20262026-10-15

Advanced+Offline Detection Rate: 89.8%Online Detection Rate: 97.7%Online Protection Rate: 99.97%False Positives: 5

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — April 20262026-04-22

Impact Score: 3.5AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — September 20252025-10-15

Impact Score: 3AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAntivirus Performance Test September 20262026-10-20

Advanced+Impact Score: 3.3AV-Comparatives Score: 90