# Sophos Home

> Business-grade antivirus for up to 10 Windows PCs and Macs

Sophos Home is the home edition of Sophos's business security software, sold as one plan, Sophos Home Premium. A single subscription covers up to 10 Windows and Mac computers plus any number of phones and tablets, all managed from one web dashboard. It adds ransomware rollback, web protection and parental web filtering to real-time scanning.

- **Category:** Antivirus & Malware Protection
- **Made by:** Sophos Ltd.
- **Website:** https://home.sophos.com
- **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Sophos Home is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $59.99 per year for 10 computers at renewal, after a first year for $44.99.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of Sophos Home Premium, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://home.sophos.com/en-us/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sophos Home before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **25% off the first year for new customers** (Other savings): Sophos Home Premium costs $44.99 for the first year instead of $59.99, then renews automatically at the published price. Source: https://home.sophos.com/en-us/

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- Families who look after the computers of relatives in other homes
- Households with several Windows PCs and Macs on one budget plan
- People who want plain antivirus without a bundled VPN or add-ons

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Sophos Home is the home edition of business security software, and one plan covers up to 10 Windows and Mac computers plus any number of phones and tablets. Two years cost $104.98, which is cheap for a whole household, and you can manage relatives' computers from a web dashboard. It's plain antivirus, though: no VPN, password manager or identity monitoring.

- **Value for money: C.** Premium is $44.99 the first year, then $59.99, so two years cost $104.98, about $4.37 a month, a little above the middle of antivirus prices. That covers 10 computers and unlimited phones, so per device it's cheap for a big household.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 30-day trial of Premium with no credit card needed. After that it stops protecting unless you buy.
- **Features: C.** It does the antivirus job fully: real-time scanning with AI detection, ransomware rollback, web protection, parental web filtering and remote management. But it's a smaller product than the suites around it, with no VPN, password manager or identity monitoring.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. You install it on each computer and it runs, with the web dashboard there when you want it.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows and Mac computers plus iPhone, iPad and Android, all managed from one web dashboard. No API or integrations on record, so it stops at B.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sophos's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its home page showed no prices to our reader when we went back to check it. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among antivirus apps

- Sophos Home's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 4 of the 14 other antivirus apps we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 2 of 14) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $5 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $4.17 for the category: 6 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/antivirus

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Sophos Home you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 8 of the 14 other antivirus apps grade higher. It costs $59.99 a year.

- You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Malware protection, AI features

## Alternatives

- [ESET](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eset): Antivirus and home security plans priced by device count. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eset-vs-sophos-home)
- [Malwarebytes](https://toolgpa.com/tools/malwarebytes): Malware scanner and real-time protection, with VPN and ID plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/malwarebytes-vs-sophos-home)
- [Bitdefender](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bitdefender): Antivirus suites for computers and phones, with a free Windows tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bitdefender-vs-sophos-home)
- [Intego](https://toolgpa.com/tools/intego): Mac antivirus and firewall suite, with a VPN and a Windows edition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/intego-vs-sophos-home)
- [Webroot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webroot): Lightweight cloud antivirus, with identity and VPN bundles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sophos-home-vs-webroot)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://home.sophos.com/en-us/
- https://home.sophos.com/download-pc-security
- https://www.sophos.com/en-us/legal/sophos-consumer-terms-of-service

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