The table represents Parallels Desktop and macOS (as the main system) compatibility information. The compatibility table for End-of-Life Parallels Desktop versions is below.
| Mac OS version | macOS Mojave | macOS Catalina |
macOS Big Sur |
macOS Monterey |
macOS Ventura |
macOS Sonoma | macOS Sequoia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version | 10.14 or later | 10.15 or later | 11.0 or later | 12.0 or later | 13.0 or later | 14.0 or later | 15.0 or later |
 Parallels Desktop 20 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
|
Parallels Desktop 19 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | |||
|
Parallels Desktop 18 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* |
* Older Parallels Desktop versions are not fully optimized and compatible with the corresponding macOS release. If you have a macOS version earlier than macOS Sequoia 15, please check KB 125506 for known compatibility and resolved issues prior to upgrading to macOS Sequoia 15. To avoid these issues, upgrade to the latest Parallels Desktop version.
End-of-Life versions of Parallels Desktop
| Mac OS version | Mac OS X Tiger | Mac OS X Leopard | Mac OS X Snow Leopard | Mac OS X Lion | OS X Mountain Lion | OS X Maveriks | OS X Yosemite | OS X El Capitan | macOS Sierra |
macOS High Sierra |
macOS Mojave | macOS Catalina | macOS Big Sur | macOS Monterey | macOS Ventura | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version |
10.4.6 or later |
10.4.11 or later |
10.5.2 or later |
10.5.8 or later |
10.6 or later | 10.6.3 or later | 10.6.8 or later | 10.7 or later | 10.7.5 or later | 10.8 or later | 10.9 or later | 10.10 or later | 10.11 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.13 or later | 10.14 or later | 10.15 or later | 11.0 or later | 12.0 or later | 13.0 or later |
 Parallels Desktop 17 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | ||||||||||||||
|
Parallels Desktop 16 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | ||||||||||||||||
|
Parallels Desktop 15 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | |||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 14 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | |||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 13 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
 Parallels Desktop 12 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* | ✓* | |||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 11 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 10 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 9 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 8 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 7 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 6 |
✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 5 |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
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Parallels Desktop 4 |
✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 3 |
✓ | |||||||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 2.5 |
✓ |
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* Versions marked with asterisks are partially compatible with the corresponding OS X/macOS versions and may not work correctly.
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