The simultaneous near-infrared (NIR)-absorbed photodynamic therapy (PDT)/photothermal therapy (PTT) has proved to be a promising approach to increase the antitumor efficiency due to their synergistic effect. Herein, a boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-based photosensitizer was designed and synthesized for the enhanced synergistic NIR-absorbed PDT/PTT therapy upon NIR light irradiation. In this strategy, a three- dimensional rigid polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) block was introduced into the Br-BODIPY molecule to alleviate the aggregation of the photosensitizer. The POSS hybrid BODIPY (Br- BODIPY-POSS) was further functionalized with a biocompatible amphiphilic PEG via a facile thiol–ene “click” reaction, affording Br-BODIPY-POSS-PEG2000 (BBPP). BBPP can self-assemble into nanoparticles, which maintain a competitive photothermal conversion efficiency (ηBBPP = 30.2%) with its counterpart Br- BODIPY-PEG (BBP, ηBBP = 34.5%). Significantly, BBPP exhibited a relatively higher oxygen quantum yield (ΦBBPP = 0.405) than BBP (ΦBBP = 0.175). The in vitro and in vivo experiments showed that BBPP pos- sessed negligible dark cytotoxicity and a better phototherapeutic outcome than BBP. The proof-of- concept of the POSS hybrid photosensitizer offers guidance for the construction of single-component and PDT/PTT-balanced NIR nanoagents to promote the cancer therapeutic efficacy in the future.