New cPanel Prices for 2026 Released

I have been a huge fan of cPanel. Now, not so much. $30 bucks for FIVE accounts? They are on the same drugs as our politicians. No thanks. I was considering a move back from Direct Admin, but now, I think not. I will learn DA. Thanks for nothing, cPanel.

cPanel is a dashboard that companies should disregard. It doesn't care about its partners, who fought to get it to where it is. Once it did, it kicked everyone's ass. We've been using Directadmin since 2020 and are happy with the successful migration of most of our client base, minus one partner in our business!

Anyone remember when cPanel Cloud license cost $20/month - seems like ages ago!

Competing control panels should be very pleased at this march into obselesence purely drive by greed and disinterest towards any technical innovation.

Are you guys still wasting time with cPanel...?
This trend was already clear 2 or 3 years ago.

This is getting worse with every year, yet we don't get what we really need. Simple functions for domain management are missing. So many negative emotions every year this happens. Customers will have to pay for this and sadly this won't make customer life easier, won't make our life easier..

We keep getting features we never asked. We keep lacking features we asked for 10+ years.

The day company decides to quit using cPanel will be a very bright day.

Just got the partner pricing through, changes are as follows:

Solo: +$2
Admin: +$1.25
Pro: +$4.75
Plus: +2.75
Premier: +$2.50
Each account over 100: +$0.05

It's hidden away the partner licensing PDF, but a bit of good news is that they appear to have increased the discounts available based on gross monthly revenue. If you are a certified partner with over $2,000 in cPanel license spend, your discount is going up from 6% to 16%. On the flip side, if your monthly license spend is less than $2,000 then you wont get any discount at all (it was previously 2%).

Quoted from Guest on Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Yikes! I haven't seen the mention of cPanel Partner pricing yet.

Received new partner prices

Email says

"This past year, we focused on the improvements that make your day-to-day operations smoother, safer, and more efficient, including:
Faster, more responsive cPanel & WHM: Enhanced backend and UI performance.


Built-in Server Monitoring (powered by 360 Monitoring): Included with every license, reducing complexity and cost.


Enhanced security and compliance through stronger SSL/TLS automation: Faster patching, and seamless integration with CloudLinux/AlmaLinux.

"


Built-in Server Monitoring (powered by 360 Monitoring): Included with every license, -- none of my partner licenses have this included in price. Is this another goof up?

We haven't yet had an email regarding partner pricing but looking at the retail pricing page it states the only license that is available to metal/dedicated users is the premier 100 account license. Has this always been the case for retail customers or is this a new thing?

Edit: Sorry, I'm being dumb. Just realized that the admin and pro licenses have never been available for metal/dedicated users even with partner pricing......need more coffee.

Quoted from Guest on Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Partners might have received the emails by now.

Not yet, or at least, not for our Partner account.

In any case, this [unfortunately] shouldn't be a surprise to anyone - it's an annual guarantee at this point.