Sophos Nearly Doubles Prices

The latest Sophos price increase hits some products extremely hard, with certain prices rising by up to 40%. In this article, we look at all changes that apply from January 5, 2023. That still gives you some time to benefit from the current, lower prices.

Sophos Firewall / Switch - 2- and 3-Year Discounts Removed

If you bought a license for more than one year, there used to be attractive discounts for longer terms:

• 1-year license
• 2-year license +75% instead of +100%
• 3-year license +140% instead of +200%

This discount is now gone, and the 3-year license is three times as expensive as the annual license. This affects the following products:

• Sophos Firewall licenses of the XGS series, XG series, and SW/Virtual (up to +25%)
• Sophos Firewall licenses of the SG series (UTM) (up to +25%)
• Sophos Firewall licenses (XG, XGS, and SW/Virtual) (up to +25%)
• Sophos Firewall licenses (UTM and UTM Software) (up to +25%)
• Sophos Switch licenses (up to +25%)
• Central Firewall Reporting Advanced (up to +25%)

Access Points & REDs

The Sophos Access Points APX 120, APX 320, APX 530, and APX 740 plus accessories will be +10% more expensive.

The Sophos SD-RED 20, SD-RED 60, and RED accessories will also be +10% more expensive.

Sophos Central Products – Multi-Year Discount Reduced

Similar to the firewalls, Sophos is adjusting the 2- and 3-year discounts. The discounts are not being removed completely, but reduced. The following products are affected:

• Central Device Encryption
• Central Mobile Standard and Advanced
• Intercept X Essentials, Advanced, Advanced with XDR
• Intercept X for Server Essentials, Advanced, Advanced with XDR
• Cloud Native Security
• Cloud Optix Advanced
• Zero Trust Network Access

Compared with the 1-year license, the 2-year license is 1.7 times as expensive and the 3-year license is 2.2 times as expensive.

Sophos Central Email is not affected by this. Or is it? 🙈

Sophos Central Email

Both Central Email Standard and the Advanced variant will become 40% more expensive.

Sophos UTM No Longer a Core Product

We stopped offering UTM support some time ago and also stopped selling UTM licenses through the shop. From next year, SG hardware with UTM licenses will officially no longer be a core product at Sophos. This is the first clear sign from Sophos that these products no longer have a future. As a result, non-core products will automatically become at least 20% more expensive in the new year.

A final thought

A price adjustment triggered by the pandemic, the resulting chip crisis, and logistics problems was foreseeable, but this price increase came rather unexpectedly. We thought inflation had already been covered by the last adjustment, as money supply expansion peaked around the turn of the year and Sophos adjusted prices in Q2 and Q3. However, it seems that the macroeconomic effects reached Sophos only later. For many other products in everyday life, we have already been seeing higher prices for some time.

Especially because of the promotion, it was attractive to purchase 3-year licenses. In future, a subscription license will be even cheaper.