Firewall Price Increases and End-of-Life Dates: 2026 Roundup

Check Point implemented a 5% price increase across firewall hardware, subscriptions, and support effective January 1, 2026, separate from a subscription increase the company had already announced in July 2025 (The Motley Fool, February 2026). On the Q4 2025 earnings call, management said the bulk of the revenue impact would show up starting in Q2 2026 due to deferred-revenue recognition timing. Any Check Point quote generated after January 1, 2026 should already reflect the higher list price; older quotes still in a buyer's pipeline may not. A second move is less certain: a partner notice reposted on LinkedIn described a temporary 5% surcharge on Check Point Security Gateway, Management, and Threat Emulation appliances (excluding DDoS and Spark models), effective April 5, 2026, attributed to component-cost and supply pressure and signed by CRO Itai Greenberg. That notice states base list pricing, support, and renewals are unaffected. Because this is a reseller repost rather than a Check Point press release, buyers finalizing hardware-only Check Point orders should have their reseller confirm current surcharge status before signing.

WatchGuard ended sale of the Firebox M590 and M690 on June 1, 2026, replaced going forward by the M495 and M595/M695 respectively (WatchGuard). The Firebox M290's end-of-sale date is August 1, 2026 — still open as of this writing — with the M295 as its replacement. Both product lines carry an end-of-life and support date of July 1, 2031, and renewals on previously purchased M590/M690/M290 hardware remain available past their end-of-sale dates. One procurement detail worth flagging: the new rackmount replacement models do not ship with power cords, so country-specific cords need to be added as separate line items on any replacement order.

Multiple vendors point to the same underlying driver. Sophos named DRAM/NAND/HBM cost pressure directly for its July 2026 XGS increase; Palo Alto Networks is reported to have cited rising memory and storage component costs behind an April 2026 hardware increase, and Check Point acknowledged memory-price and raw-material pressure alongside its own 2026 pricing actions (Avanet, cross-referenced with earnings-call commentary, 2026). That framing is reported rather than a single confirmed industry statement, but it lines up across three separate vendors' public commentary. The practical read for buyers: this looks like a shared, AI-driven memory-cost cycle rather than a single company's pricing call, so switching firewall brands is unlikely to dodge it — the available lever is timing orders ahead of each vendor's own effective date.

Check Point's 5% price increase effective January 1, 2026 and its Q2 2026 revenue-impact timing are vendor-confirmed via The Motley Fool's transcript of Check Point's Q4 2025 earnings call (Feb 12, 2026). The reported 5% temporary appliance surcharge effective April 5, 2026 is reported status only, sourced to a LinkedIn repost of a Check Point partner channel notice (Lewis Combs, April 2026) — not a Check Point press release. SonicWall's Supermassive end-of-support (Feb 20, 2026) is vendor-confirmed via SonicWall's own product notification (Jan 29, 2026). SonicWall's Email Security and Cloud App Security wind-down dates are vendor-confirmed via SonicWall's Partner Power News (May 2026). WatchGuard's Firebox M590/M690/M290 end-of-sale and end-of-life dates are vendor-confirmed via WatchGuard's end-of-sale announcement. Sophos's ~10% XGS price increase (effective July 1, 2026) and Sophos UTM's end-of-life/support-stop dates are both vendor-confirmed, sourced to Avanet's partner bulletin and Sophos's own UTM EOL guidance, respectively. The industry-wide memory-cost framing tying these increases to AI-driven DRAM/NAND/HBM demand is reported, cross-referencing Avanet's bulletin with earnings-call commentary rather than a single confirmed cross-vendor statement.