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Sophos Home

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Product

Sophos Home is a security and privacy product for households, protecting Windows and macOS computers and mobile devices, managed from one account. Surf the web with confidence, knowing Sophos Home protects your online shopping and banking from phishing and hacking. When Sophos Home scans a device, it can find and remove tracking codes, preventing anyone from following your online browsing without you knowing. Cybersecurity is not one-size-fits-all, so we've customized how Sophos Home protects devices based on the operating system. It runs on macOS and Windows.

Current Version
2025.2.3.67.0
Product Page
home.sophos.com
Market
Consumer
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 59.99 / annual
Record Created
2026-08-20
Last Updated
2026-10-21

Vendor

Sophos was founded in 1985 by Jan Hruska and Peter Lammer, two Oxford doctoral students, and is still headquartered in Abingdon, outside Oxford. It listed in London in 2015 and was taken private in 2020 by Thoma Bravo, and in 2025 it acquired Secureworks, adding that company's managed detection business to its own. It sells to organisations, largely through resellers, and its two halves are endpoint and network. Sophos Intercept X is the endpoint product, Sophos Firewall the appliance line, and Sophos Central the single console that manages both — the integration between them is much of what it sells. Sophos MDR is the managed detection and response service, now the company's fastest-growing line with more than 40,000 customers, and Sophos XDR, Sophos Email and Sophos Backup and Recovery for M365 sit alongside. Sophos Home is the consumer product, and the free version is the one most individuals will have met. SophosLabs publishes its own threat research, and the company's products appear regularly in the public test cycles this index draws on. Vendor page →

Website
sophos.com
Country
United Kingdom
Headquarters
Abingdon, United Kingdom
Year Established
1985
Customers
625K organisations
Users
100M users
Revenue
$1.0B (2023)

Platforms

macOSnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

Consumer secondary

Capabilities

Malware Detectionkeynative
Ransomware Protectionkeynative
Behavioral DetectionkeyNot known
Web Protectionkeynative
Email ProtectionNot known
Host FirewallNot known
Sandbox AnalysisNot known
Cloud-Assisted ScanningNot known
Heuristic Detectionnative
Device ControlNot known
Vulnerability ShieldingNot known
Central Management ConsoleNot known

8 of 12 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 59.99

Versions

  • 2025.2.3.67.0Windows
  • 10.10.3macOS

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 TestTested

Tested: Windows2026-10-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Performance TestStandard

Tested: Windows2026-10-20lab 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 — February–May 20262026-06-15
AdvancedProtection Rate: 97.8%False Positives: 14
AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — March 20262026-04-15
TestedOffline Detection Rate: 85.5%Online Detection Rate: 96.8%Online Protection Rate: 99.59%False Positives: 19
AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20262026-10-15
TestedOffline Detection Rate: 74.6%Online Detection Rate: 97%Online Protection Rate: 99.83%False Positives: 49
AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — April 20262026-04-22
StandardImpact Score: 33.4AV-Comparatives Score: 70
AV-Comparatives Performance TestAntivirus Performance Test September 20262026-10-20
StandardImpact Score: 39.8AV-Comparatives Score: 65
SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionHome Anti-Malware 2026 Q2
AAAOverall 99Protection Accuracy: 97%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 99%
SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionHome Anti-Malware 2026 Q1
AAAOverall 97Protection Accuracy: 93%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 97%

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported
OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationGold1 activeGold

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Performance Test result: Standardevidence
  • 2026-10-15Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test result: Testedevidence
  • 2026-10-14Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 59.99 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-10-13Pricing plan addedPrice: subscriptionevidence
  • 2026-10-09Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Performance Test result: Standardevidence
  • 2026-10-09Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test result: Testedevidence
  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Home Anti-Malware Protection result: AAAevidence
  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Home Anti-Malware Protection result: AAAevidence
  • 2026-09-28Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test result: Advancedevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedHeuristic Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-20Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 2025.2.3.67.0 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 10.10.3 (macOS)evidence
  • 2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-08-20New versionNew version: 2025.2.3.67.0evidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Gold)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence
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