Huntress vs Sophos Home (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Huntress if

• Fits if you run IT for several small businesses and want a security team watching
• Works for a company with endpoints to cover and no in-house analysts

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you're a home user, as there's no consumer plan
• Not for you if you want a free plan, as the pricing page lists none
• Pricey if you want a plain antivirus: $8.99 per endpoint a month is a managed service price
• Watch out: pricing is list price, quotes come from a demo form, the term is 12 months and multi-year price protection isn't offered

Pick Sophos Home if

• Fits if you look after your parents' computers from another house
• Works for households with several PCs and Macs, as one $59.99 plan covers 10 computers

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a VPN, password manager or identity monitoring in the same subscription
• Not for you if you need help at weekends, as live support is weekdays in US Eastern hours
• Watch out: the $44.99 first year is a 25% offer, and it renews by itself at $59.99
• Tight if you want to stay free, as there's no free plan and protection stops after the 30-day trial

Huntress

• Pricing shown is MSRP and falls as volume rises; exact quotes come from a demo form, and Huntress says it is channel-first and sells mostly through partners.
• The standard term is 12 months, and the pricing FAQ says multi-year price protection is not offered.
• Business product only: there is no consumer plan, and the pricing page lists no free plan.
• Each product is priced on a different unit: endpoints, identities, data sources or learners.

Sophos Home

• The advertised $44.99 is a 25% first-year offer; the subscription renews automatically at the published price, $59.99 a year.
• There is no free plan: the trial stops protecting after 30 days unless you buy.
• There is no VPN, password manager or identity monitoring in the plan.
• Live support is available only on weekdays during US Eastern office hours.

Huntress

Managed EDR

A lightweight agent for Windows and macOS, with Linux also covered, feeds detections to the Huntress SOC, which investigates and remediates.

Free managed antivirus

The Managed EDR price includes managed antivirus, so the product can stand in for a conventional antivirus on a business machine.

Identity threat detection

Managed ITDR looks for privilege escalation, suspicious logins and mail flow manipulation in Microsoft 365 and Google accounts.

Athena engine

The site describes Athena as agentic AI that investigates every alert alongside the human SOC analysts.

Incident reporting

Custom incident reports come with Managed EDR and Managed ITDR at no extra cost, according to the pricing page.

Log collection and training

Managed SIEM correlates logs from many sources, and Managed SAT runs phishing simulations and training for employees.

Sophos Home

AI threat detection

Deep learning models flag malware that has never been seen before, alongside real-time scanning against the SophosLabs threat databases.

Ransomware rollback

Blocks ransomware from encrypting personal files and photos, and rolls back any files it managed to change.

Web protection

Blocks compromised and phishing sites, adds browser protection for banking and shopping, and scans downloads automatically.

Remote management

One dashboard shows and manages the protection on every computer in the family, wherever those computers are.

Parental web filtering

Choose categories of websites that children cannot open on a protected computer.

Support by chat and email

Live chat and email support from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern, Monday to Friday, with a knowledge base available around the clock.

Huntress

• Managed EDR$8.99

  per endpoint / month, MSRP

  24/7 detection and response by the SOC, remediation, incident reporting and managed antivirus. Rate falls with volume.

• Managed ITDR$4.80

  per licensed identity / month, MSRP

  Watches Microsoft 365 and Google identities for account takeover, suspicious policy changes and mail flow tampering.

• Managed SIEM$4.00

  per data source / month, MSRP

  Collects and correlates logs from endpoints, firewalls, cloud apps and identity systems, with pooled storage.

• Managed ISPM$4.00

  per licensed identity / month, MSRP

  Managed hardening of Microsoft 365 identity settings, with drift fixed in about 15 minutes, as the page says.

• Managed SAT$2.08

  per learner / month, MSRP

  Managed security awareness training with phishing simulation and automated reporting.

Sophos Home

• Sophos Home Premium$59.99

  per year for 10 computers at renewal, after a first year for $44.99

  Up to 10 Windows and Mac computers plus unlimited phones and tablets. First year $44.99 (25% off $59.99), then renews at the published price.

Huntress

No public discounts listed.

Sophos Home

• Other savings

  25% off the first year for new customers

  Sophos Home Premium costs $44.99 for the first year instead of $59.99, then renews automatically at the published price.