Sophos Endpoint Price in India (2026): Editions, Licensing and How to Buy

If you are buying endpoint protection for a company with 5, 50 or 500 computers, Sophos is one of the first names you will hear. It is also one of the hardest to price. Sophos does not publish an Indian price list, partners quote very differently, and in late 2025 Sophos renamed most of its endpoint products, so older articles and quotes may use names that no longer exist.

This guide explains the current Sophos editions, how licensing works, what Sophos Endpoint really costs in India in 2026, and how buying, setup and support work with an authorised partner. It is written from what we see selling and deploying Sophos for businesses across Kerala.

Intercept X is now Sophos Endpoint

In October 2025 Sophos refreshed its endpoint range and dropped the “Intercept X” name from its licences (Sophos announcement). If a quote still says “Intercept X Essentials”, ask why.

Which Sophos edition does your business need?

Sophos Endpoint

The standard choice for most companies with 5 to a few hundred computers and no full-time security team. It covers malware and ransomware protection, ransomware rollback, exploit protection, device and web control and data loss prevention rules, all managed from one dashboard.

Sophos EDR and Sophos XDR

EDR (endpoint detection and response) adds tools to investigate what happened on a computer: which process ran, what it touched, where it connected. XDR (extended detection and response) adds data from your firewall, email and cloud services, so you can follow an attack across systems. Both suit companies with an IT or security person who will actually look at the data.

Sophos MDR

Managed detection and response: Sophos’s own analysts watch your systems 24/7 and respond to threats for you. This is for companies that need round-the-clock cover but cannot staff a security team at night. HaloSec is a Sophos MDR accredited partner, so we can set it up and stay involved after go-live.

Servers

Servers need their own Sophos Endpoint – Server licence (or the server version of EDR or XDR). Count them separately when you ask for a quote.

Sophos also launched Sophos Endpoint 100, a fixed-price plan for organisations with up to 100 employees. Availability through Indian partners varies, so ask before you plan around it.

What you get with Sophos Endpoint

• One dashboard for every computer. In Sophos Central you set company policies once and push them to all devices at the same time, and you see the status of every machine in one place.
• Ransomware protection with rollback. Sophos’s CryptoGuard watches for files being encrypted. When ransomware starts encrypting, it stops the process and puts the affected files back the way they were.
• Protection against new and unknown threats. Exploit prevention and behaviour detection catch attacks that have no signature yet.
• Network attack protection. It blocks malicious network traffic and intrusion attempts, including when staff connect to public Wi-Fi.
• Device and web control. Block USB pen drives, cameras and other devices, or risky websites, across the company from one place.
• Data loss prevention (DLP). Rules that watch where sensitive files go, such as uploads, email attachments or copies to removable drives, are included in the licence. For a deeper setup, see our DLP implementation service.
• A lighter agent. Sophos says the 2025 Windows agent uses about 40% less memory than before.

Why not just use antivirus?

This is the question we hear most. Antivirus gives you threat protection on one computer, and each copy works on its own. Nobody sees the whole company, policies are set PC by PC, and nothing stops a pen drive walking out with your client files. Managed endpoint security puts every device under one set of rules and one view. If you are weighing it up, our endpoint security service page explains how we run it.

How Sophos licensing works

• Per user, per year. You license the number of people, not devices. Sophos’s licensing policy lets each user protect “a reasonable number of computers”, so someone with a desktop and a laptop needs one licence.
• Servers are separate. Each server needs a server licence.
• 1-year or 3-year terms. A 3-year term usually costs only slightly less per year, because prices rise each year. Its real benefit is that your price is locked for all three years.
• Minimum of 5 users with HaloSec, which is where central management starts to pay off.
• The licence lives in your own Sophos Central account. You own the account; your partner gets access only when you switch on partner support.

Sophos Endpoint price in India (2026)

Partners cannot publish one fixed price, because the price per user depends on how many users you buy, the edition, the term and the partner. These are the ranges we see in the Indian market today, before GST:

GST at 18% is added to all of these, with a GST invoice.

What moves the price

• Number of users. The biggest factor: the more users, the lower the price per user.
• Edition. Endpoint, EDR, XDR and MDR are separate price levels.
• Servers. Licensed and priced separately.
• Term. A long-term commitment gives some room to negotiate, and 3 years locks the price.
• What the partner includes. Setup, policy tuning and ongoing support are where quotes differ most.

A worked example

Say a 25-person office in Kochi is quoted ₹2,500 per user per year for Sophos Endpoint and ₹300 per system for setup. The figures are for illustration only:

• Licences: 25 × ₹2,500 = ₹62,500 a year
• Setup: 25 × ₹300 = ₹7,500, once
• First year: ₹70,000 + 18% GST = ₹82,600

Buying Sophos Endpoint in Kochi and Kerala

HaloSec is a Sophos Authorized Partner based in Kochi, with Sophos accreditation for Endpoint and XDR and for MDR, and several Sophos-certified engineers on the team. In practice that means:

• On-site support anywhere in Kerala, and remote support anywhere in India. For visits outside Kochi, travel costs are billed to the client.
• A real person when something goes wrong. When clients have had an attack or an urgent problem, we have gone on site and helped directly, often at no extra cost.
• Renewal reminders before your licences expire, so protection never lapses.

Whoever you buy from, check that they appear in Sophos’s partner locator on sophos.com, and that the licence is issued to your company.

How buying works, step by step

A real rollout: an audit firm with offices in Thrissur and the UAE

An auditing firm with 100 to 200 staff across Thrissur and the UAE came to us with one main worry: they could not see where their data was going. Client financial records are the business, and a single leak would be serious.

They wanted three things: protection from ransomware, something stronger than standalone antivirus on each PC, and a way to stop staff copying data to pen drives. We gathered their requirements first, then deployed Sophos Endpoint across the firm, blocked unapproved USB storage, and used the DLP rules included in Sophos Endpoint to monitor sensitive client data wherever it moved.

The firm was very happy with the result, and we still look after their IT security today. The lesson for similar firms: the DLP and device control you need are often already in the endpoint licence, but they only work once someone sets the rules for your business.

Security mistakes we see at Kerala businesses

Endpoint protection is one layer. These are the gaps we find most often at small and mid-sized companies, and they cause more damage than any missing tool:

• One flat network with no segmentation, so one infected PC can reach everything.
• No multi-factor authentication on email and remote access.
• No monitoring, so nobody notices an attack until files are already encrypted.
• Passwords shared with outside vendors and never changed.
• Passwords saved on the desktop or on sticky notes.
• Weak, easy-to-guess passwords on important systems.

If you are not sure which of these apply to you, our free security audit takes a few minutes and gives you a plain-language report. Protecting customer data is also a legal duty now: see our DPDP Act compliance checklist.

Next step

Send us your number of users and servers through the endpoint security enquiry form for a written quote and a free 30-day trial. If you would rather have someone manage Sophos for you each month, see our outsourced security team.