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The best cPanel alternatives in 2026

A cPanel alternative is a hosting control panel that replaces cPanel & WHM on a server you own. The ones that can replace it for selling hosting have a mail server, authoritative DNS, a login for every customer and a way to import cPanel accounts: Vanta Panel ($10 a server, our product), DirectAdmin ($29), Plesk (from $27.49, and the only one on Windows), and the free HestiaCP, CyberPanel, Virtualmin and ISPConfig. CloudPanel, aaPanel and RunCloud are better for running your own sites, Froxlor is the lightest GPL panel and OpenPanel the container one.

Below: one table with every panel, a pick for each need, a card per panel with its price, who it suits and what to watch, and which panels import cPanel accounts. Every competitor cell links to the vendor’s own page and carries the date it was read.

Every cell was read on the vendor’s own site or docs: DirectAdmin, Plesk, CyberPanel, Virtualmin, ISPConfig, aaPanel, Froxlor and OpenPanel on ; HestiaCP, CloudPanel and RunCloud on .

The reasons

Why are people leaving cPanel?

Price, mostly. cPanel licenses a server by how many accounts it holds: $29.99 a month for one, $69.99 for up to 100, then $0.49 a month for every account above that, and from 16 December 2026 the tiers rise to $32.99 to $76.99 and the per-account charge to $0.55. A server with 200 accounts costs $118.99 a month today. The second reason is control: a panel on your own VPS, with no vendor pricing decision between you and your customers. The third is operating systems: cPanel runs on AlmaLinux, CloudLinux and Ubuntu 24.04 only, and its docs now say Rocky Linux is no longer supported.

Licence cost for one server, by number of hosting accounts. cPanel list price from cpanel.net/pricing, checked . Excludes the VPS and tax.
AccountscPanel per monthVanta Panel per monthYou keep per year
1$29.99Solo$0Free$359.88
5$35.99Admin$5Basic$371.88
30$53.99Pro$10Unlimited$527.88
100$69.99Premier$10Unlimited$719.88
200$118.99Premier + 100$10Unlimited$1,307.88
500$265.99Premier + 400$10Unlimited$3,071.88
1,000$510.99Premier + 900$10Unlimited$6,011.88

  • Per account against per server

    cPanel’s column grows by $0.49 for every account above 100; a flat-rate panel’s column does not move. That is the whole of the saving, and it widens with every customer you add.

  • What you are paying for

    A mature product your customers already know, WHM’s Transfer Tool between cPanel servers, CloudLinux and a large ecosystem. Several alternatives below have grown into the same jobs.

  • cPanel cost at your account count Vanta Panel vs cPanel & WHM in detail

The table

How do the 12 panels compare, row by row?

Eight of the twelve have the full hosting stack: a mail server, authoritative DNS and a login for every customer. Five are free and OSI open source. Seven can import cPanel accounts. Only Plesk runs on Windows. This table gives the short answers and the licence at 30 and 200 accounts; the full wording, with runtimes, nameservers and operating systems, is on the compare page.

Twelve cPanel alternatives compared. Short answers here; the full wording of every cell is on the compare page and on each head-to-head page. Every cell links to its source; a dash means we could not verify it. Every cell was read on the vendor’s own site or docs: DirectAdmin, Plesk, CyberPanel, Virtualmin, ISPConfig, aaPanel, Froxlor and OpenPanel on ; HestiaCP, CloudPanel and RunCloud on . Licence prices are per server per month and exclude the VPS and tax.
Vanta PanelDirectAdminPleskHestiaCPCyberPanelVirtualminISPConfigCloudPanelaaPanelFroxlorOpenPanelRunCloud
Licence per server, per month
Licence at 30 accounts$10/mo (Unlimited)Details$29Source$27.49Source$0Source$0Source$0 / $10Source$0Source$0Source$28.80Source$0Source€14.95Source$91Source
Licence at 200 accounts$10/mo (Unlimited)Details$29Source$57.74Source$0Source$0Source$0 / $15Source$0Source$0Source$28.802Source$0Source€14.95Source$91Source
Hosting stack
Mail server and webmailYesDocsYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceNoSourcePartialSourcePartialSourceEnterprise onlySourceNoSource
Authoritative DNSYesDocsYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceNoSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceNo DNS serverSource
Customer loginsYesDocsYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourcePartialSourcePro onlySourceYesSourceYesSourcePartial3Source
Business
WHMCS moduleYesDetailsYesSourceYesSourcePartial4SourcePartialSourceYesSourceNo first-party moduleSourceNo official module5SourceYesSourceNo first-party moduleSourceYesSourceNoSource
Import cPanel accountsYesDocsYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourceYesSourcePartialSourceNoSourceNoSourceEnterprise onlySourceNo importerSource
Licence
Licence and sourceCommercial licenceDetailsProprietarySourceProprietarySourceOpen sourceSourceOpen sourceSourceOpen sourceSourceOpen sourceSourceProprietary freewareSourcePartialSourceOpen sourceSourcePartialSourceProprietary SaaS subscriptionSource

Notes

  1. RunCloud: RunCloud does not count hosting accounts: Essentials covers one server with unlimited web applications. Team seats, which is how clients get a login, start on the Business plan ($49/mo). Back to: Licence at 30 accounts, Licence at 200 accounts

  2. aaPanel: aaPanel’s pricing page says Pro has “unlimited team members”, while its sub-account feature page says each Pro licence comes with up to 30 sub-users. How to exceed 30 on one server is not stated. Back to the table

  3. RunCloud: A white-label customer dashboard is announced for RunCloud Arch (waitlist). Back to the table

  4. HestiaCP: Hestia’s REST API docs say the API is used “to integrate the WHMCS billing system”. WHMCS’s own server-module list has no HestiaCP entry. Third-party modules exist, for example PUQ’s HestiaCP provisioning module on the WHMCS Marketplace, sold under a commercial licence. Back to the table

  5. CloudPanel: WHMCS’s own server-module list has no CloudPanel entry. Back to the table

The full table, with runtimes and nameservers Vanta Panel pricing

By need

Which cPanel alternative is best for you?

Choose by what the server is for. To sell hosting you need the full stack, and then the question is price, operating system and billing. To host your own sites, a lighter deploy tool is fine. Vanta Panel is our product, so read its pick with that in mind; the other picks are ours too, and we have tried to earn them.

  • Selling hosting on Ubuntu or Debian at a flat priceVanta Panel: $10 a server for unlimited accounts, with resellers, WHMCS, remote backups and a cPanel importer in the admin panel. Our product.
  • The most established cheap commercial panelDirectAdmin: $29 a month for unlimited accounts, on Red Hat-family Linux as well as Debian and Ubuntu, with CloudLinux and LiteSpeed support.
  • Windows ServerPlesk: the only panel here that runs on Windows, with IIS and MailEnable; from $27.49 a month for 30 domains.
  • Free, with everything a hosting customer needsHestiaCP: GPLv3, mail, DNS, SSL and customer logins on Debian or Ubuntu, with a command-line cPanel importer.
  • WordPress and speed, with OpenLiteSpeedCyberPanel: free core on OpenLiteSpeed, or a LiteSpeed Enterprise licence, with paid add-ons for SSL, backups and WordPress management.
  • One open-source panel over several serversISPConfig: BSD-licensed, with dedicated web, mail, DNS and database nodes under one management server.
  • Webmin veterans and unusual Linux distributionsVirtualmin: GPL on Webmin, Grade A support for RHEL-family, Debian and Ubuntu, PostgreSQL and cloud DNS; Pro from $7.50 a month.
  • Hosting your own PHP, Node.js or Python sitesCloudPanel: free, NGINX with Varnish, no mail or DNS server by design.
  • A free server toolbox with an app storeaaPanel: Nginx, Apache or OpenLiteSpeed per site, Docker, Node.js and Python; customer logins in Pro.
  • The lightest GPL panelFroxlor: configures the stock Debian or Ubuntu services; you add webmail, a firewall and backups.
  • Container isolation per customerOpenPanel: rootless Podman containers and a web server per user; Enterprise at €14.95 a server for mail, WHMCS and cPanel import.
  • A hosted dashboard for many serversRunCloud: a SaaS dashboard from $9 a month per server, for developers and agencies deploying apps; no mail or DNS server.

Panel by panel

The 12 cPanel alternatives, one by one

What each panel is, what it costs, who it suits and what to watch for, in the order they come up in other comparisons and in hosting forums. Each card links to a full head-to-head page with every claim sourced.

Vanta Panel

Our product

A self-hosted hosting panel for Ubuntu and Debian with vWHM for the administrator and vPanel for each customer: mail with webmail, PowerDNS with private nameservers, free SSL, resellers, a first-party WHMCS module, a cPanel importer in the admin panel and managed Node.js, Python, Java, Kafka and Redis. This is our product.

Licence and price
Free for 1 account, 1 mailbox and 1 database; $5 a month for 5 accounts, 5 mailboxes and 5 databases; $10 a month for unlimited accounts, mailboxes and databases. Every feature in every tier.
Best for
Selling shared or reseller hosting on a Linux VPS at a flat price, especially with WHMCS or accounts to move off cPanel.
Watch out for
Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 12+ only; commercially licensed PHP source, not OSI open source; a younger product than the incumbents, with every release dated at vantapanel.com/releases.

Pricing Vanta Panel vs cPanel & WHM Every feature

DirectAdmin

The commercial panel most often named as the cheaper cPanel: administrator, reseller and user levels, Exim and Dovecot with Roundcube, BIND, automatic Let’s Encrypt, a WHMCS module shipped by WHMCS and a cpmove conversion script.

Licence and price
Personal PLUS $5/mo (2 accounts, 20 domains; support for installation only), Lite $15 (10 accounts, 50 domains), Standard $29 (unlimited accounts and domains). USD, monthly; no yearly price is listed.
Best for
Hosts who want a mature paid panel with CloudLinux, LiteSpeed and Red Hat-family support, at $29 a month for unlimited accounts.
Watch out for
Remote backups out of the box go to FTP only; Node.js, Ruby and Java need Nginx Unit to be enabled; the $5 tier has support for installation only.

Vanta Panel vs DirectAdmin directadmin.com

Plesk

The other big commercial panel, for Linux and Windows Server: nginx with Apache or IIS, Postfix and Dovecot or MailEnable, BIND, SSL It!, a WHMCS module shipped by WHMCS, Plesk Migrator for cPanel accounts and a large extension catalogue.

Licence and price
VPS licence: Web Admin $15.57/mo (10 domains, no customer or reseller accounts), Web Pro $27.49 (30 domains, customer accounts), Web Host $57.74 (unlimited domains, resellers). Shown as a limited-time offer valid until 1 December 2026; excl. VAT.
Best for
Anyone who must host on Windows, and shops whose customers ask for Plesk by name.
Watch out for
Priced by domains, not accounts; Web Admin has no customer accounts; Java (Tomcat) was dropped in Onyx 17.8; a price rise is announced for 1 January 2027.

Vanta Panel vs Plesk plesk.com

HestiaCP

The free, GPLv3 panel closest to cPanel in scope: Exim and Dovecot with Roundcube, BIND with DNS clusters and DNSSEC, Let’s Encrypt, a login for every user and a command-line cPanel importer.

Licence and price
$0, funded by donations.
Best for
Anyone who wants a complete hosting panel on Debian or Ubuntu with no licence at all.
Watch out for
No WHMCS module of its own (third-party modules exist); no Node.js, Python or Java management; Debian and Ubuntu only.

Vanta Panel vs HestiaCP hestiacp.com

CyberPanel

A free, GPL panel built on OpenLiteSpeed: Postfix and Dovecot with a built-in webmail, PowerDNS, Let’s Encrypt, admin, user and reseller accounts and a command-line cPanel importer; SSL v2, backups v2 and WordPress Manager Pro are paid add-ons.

Licence and price
Core $0. All six add-ons $59/year or $169 once; .htaccess module $59/year or $199 once; both $99/year. LiteSpeed Enterprise from $11/month.
Best for
WordPress and speed-focused hosts who want OpenLiteSpeed or LiteSpeed Enterprise.
Watch out for
Stability and update bugs are a common criticism in reviews; its WHMCS module is community-hosted and last updated in 2021; x86_64 only.

Vanta Panel vs CyberPanel cyberpanel.net

Virtualmin

The long-standing GPL panel built on Webmin: Postfix and Dovecot, BIND, Let’s Encrypt, an owner login per virtual server, a WHMCS module shipped by WHMCS and an importer for cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin backups. Virtualmin Pro adds resellers, 60+ install scripts and cloud backups.

Licence and price
GPL: $0. Professional, monthly: $7.50 (10 domains), $10 (50), $12.50 (100), $15 (250), $20 (unlimited); yearly $75 to $200.
Best for
Administrators who know Webmin and want its depth, including PostgreSQL and cloud DNS providers, on almost any Linux.
Watch out for
Resellers, Node.js, Python and Java are Pro features; reviewers call the interface dense and dated.

Vanta Panel vs Virtualmin virtualmin.com

ISPConfig

A free, BSD-licensed panel that runs one server or controls dedicated web, mail, DNS and database servers from a management server: Postfix and Dovecot with Roundcube, BIND or PowerDNS with DNSSEC, Let’s Encrypt and logins for admins, resellers, clients and mail users.

Licence and price
$0 (BSD licence). Optional: Billing Module €59 per management server, Migration Toolkit €79 a year.
Best for
Hosts who want one open-source panel over several servers.
Watch out for
No first-party WHMCS module (the third-party one is archived); the cPanel import is in a paid toolkit and marked beta; no built-in file manager; a steeper learning curve by reviewers’ accounts.

Vanta Panel vs ISPConfig ispconfig.org

CloudPanel

A free server panel for PHP, Node.js, Python and static sites on NGINX with Varnish, MySQL or MariaDB and Redis, with free SSL and Admin, Site Manager and User roles.

Licence and price
$0
Best for
Developers and agencies hosting their own sites and apps, with mail and DNS bought elsewhere.
Watch out for
No mail server and no DNS server by design, no WHMCS module and no cPanel importer: it cannot sell shared hosting on its own; proprietary freeware.

Vanta Panel vs CloudPanel cloudpanel.io

aaPanel

A free server panel with Nginx, Apache or OpenLiteSpeed per site, a mail server, a built-in DNS server, Node.js and Python projects, Docker and a large app store. Customer sub-accounts and a first-party WHMCS module come with aaPanel Pro.

Licence and price
Free $0. Pro $28.80/month, $198/year or $699 once; 14-day trial, 15-day money-back guarantee.
Best for
Administrators who want a free, broad server toolbox for their own sites.
Watch out for
Customer logins are Pro only and capped at 30 sub-users per licence on its sub-account page; no bundled webmail; no cPanel importer; its own licence is not OSI open source.

Vanta Panel vs aaPanel aapanel.com

Froxlor

A lightweight GPL panel for Debian and Ubuntu that configures the system’s own Apache or nginx, Postfix and Dovecot, BIND or PowerDNS and Let’s Encrypt, with customer, reseller and admin logins.

Licence and price
$0
Best for
Administrators who want the smallest GPL panel and will add webmail, a firewall and backups themselves.
Watch out for
No bundled webmail, firewall or server backups; no cPanel importer; a third-party WHMCS module only.

Vanta Panel vs Froxlor froxlor.org

OpenPanel

A container-based panel: each user runs in rootless Podman containers with a choice of Nginx, OpenLiteSpeed, Apache, OpenResty or Varnish. Community is free for 3 accounts; Enterprise adds email, app runtimes, backups, resellers, a first-party WHMCS module and a cPanel importer.

Licence and price
Community $0 (up to 3 user accounts, 50 websites, 50 domains). Enterprise €14.95/server/month or €149.50 a year; 30-day trial.
Best for
Hosts who want per-customer container isolation and a web server per user.
Watch out for
Email, backups and app runtimes need the Enterprise licence; the licence (EULA plus CC BY-NC) is not OSI open source; first released in 2023.

Vanta Panel vs OpenPanel openpanel.com

RunCloud

A hosted dashboard that manages your own cloud servers through an agent: deploys PHP apps with free SSL, edits DNS zones on Cloudflare, and gives team members and clients permissioned access.

Licence and price
Essentials $9/mo (1 server), Professional $19 (50 servers), Business $49 (100 servers), Enterprise $399 (500 servers). Yearly: $90, $190, $490, $2,394. 7-day free trial; 14-day money-back guarantee.
Best for
Developers and agencies deploying apps across several servers from one SaaS dashboard.
Watch out for
No mail server, no DNS server of its own, no WHMCS module in the current plans and no cPanel importer; the dashboard is run by RunCloud, not on your server.

runcloud.io

The part price cannot fix

Why do most cheap replacements fail to replace cPanel?

Because a hosting customer expects three things that a deploy tool does not have: mailboxes on their own domain, nameservers on your brand, and somewhere to log in and manage their own site. CloudPanel and RunCloud run no mail server and no DNS server; aaPanel and Froxlor run them without webmail. The panels that keep all three on the server are the ones that stick: Vanta Panel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, HestiaCP, CyberPanel, Virtualmin, ISPConfig and OpenPanel Enterprise.

  • Mailboxes on their own domain

    Postfix and Dovecot with webmail, forwarders, autoresponders and spam filtering on the server. Without them every customer mailbox becomes a bill from someone else. Email in Vanta Panel

  • Nameservers with your brand on them

    An authoritative DNS server on the VPS, so ns1 and ns2 sit on your domain and customers point their registrars at you. Private nameservers

  • Somewhere for the customer to log in

    An isolated account with its own panel, and a billing system that creates, suspends and terminates it. The WHMCS module

  • A way in from cPanel

    An importer that recreates a cPanel account from its backup, so the move is one account at a time with the old server untouched. Migrating from cPanel

Moving over

Which panels can import cPanel accounts?

Seven of the eleven alternatives read a cPanel account backup. Vanta Panel does it from a screen in vWHM; Plesk, DirectAdmin, Virtualmin, HestiaCP and CyberPanel do it with their own tools or commands; OpenPanel does it in its Enterprise edition; ISPConfig in a paid toolkit marked beta. CloudPanel, aaPanel, Froxlor and RunCloud have no cPanel importer, so a move to them is manual.

Imports cPanel backups

  • Vanta Panel: Yes: Import from cPanel, a screen in vWHM
  • Plesk: Yes: Plesk Migrator moves accounts from cPanel 11.5 and later (also DirectAdmin and older Plesk)
  • DirectAdmin: Yes, from the command line: cpanel_to_da.sh converts a cpmove archive, then Admin Backup/Transfer restores it
  • Virtualmin: Yes: Migrate Virtual Server imports cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin backups (virtualmin migrate-domain)
  • HestiaCP: Yes, from the command line: v-import-cpanel restores a cPanel backup as a new user
  • CyberPanel: Yes, from the command line: cPanelImporter.py restores cPanel account backups
  • OpenPanel: Enterprise only: OpenAdmin → Backups → Import account reads cPanel (and CyberPanel) backups
  • ISPConfig: Partial: the paid Migration Toolkit (€79 a year) imports cPanel, marked beta, alongside Plesk and ISPConfig sources

No cPanel importer

  • CloudPanel: no importer is stated in its documentation
  • aaPanel: No: the vendor’s migration guide moves sites by hand (file manager and phpMyAdmin)
  • Froxlor: No: only a CSV domain import
  • RunCloud: No importer; RunCloud’s support team migrates your first web app for free

How a manual migration works, step by step

Questions

What people ask about cPanel alternatives

Something else? Ask support or read the docs.

What is the best cPanel alternative in 2026?

For selling shared hosting on Linux, the complete alternatives are the ones with a mail server, authoritative DNS and a login for every customer: Vanta Panel ($10 a server), DirectAdmin ($29), Plesk (from $27.49 for 30 domains), and the free HestiaCP, CyberPanel, Virtualmin, ISPConfig and Froxlor. Vanta Panel is our product; its case is a flat price with WHMCS, resellers, backups and a cPanel importer included. HestiaCP is the best free pick, DirectAdmin the most established cheap commercial one, and Plesk the only one for Windows.

What is the best free cPanel alternative?

HestiaCP: free, GPLv3, with Exim and Dovecot, BIND, Let’s Encrypt, a login for every user and a command-line cPanel importer, on Debian and Ubuntu. Virtualmin GPL and ISPConfig are the free picks if you need Red Hat-family Linux or multi-server management, Froxlor if you want the lightest panel, and CyberPanel if you want OpenLiteSpeed. Vanta Panel’s free tier runs the complete panel for 1 account, 1 mailbox and 1 database.

Which cPanel alternatives are open source?

HestiaCP (GPLv3), Virtualmin (GPL-3.0, on BSD-licensed Webmin), ISPConfig (BSD), Froxlor (GPL v2) and CyberPanel (GPL-3.0, with paid add-ons) are OSI open source. CloudPanel is proprietary freeware, aaPanel and OpenPanel publish source under their own non-OSI licences, and cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Vanta Panel and RunCloud are commercial.

What is the cheapest commercial cPanel alternative?

Vanta Panel at $10 a month per server for unlimited accounts ($5 for 5 accounts, 5 mailboxes and 5 databases, free for 1 account, 1 mailbox and 1 database). DirectAdmin is $5 for 2 accounts, $15 for 10 and $29 for unlimited. Virtualmin Pro is $7.50 to $20 a month by domain count, OpenPanel Enterprise €14.95, aaPanel Pro $28.80, and Plesk $15.57 to $57.74 by domain count. cPanel itself is $29.99 for one account and $69.99 for up to 100, plus $0.49 per extra account.

How much does cPanel cost in 2026, and is it going up?

cPanel’s list prices are Solo $29.99 a month (1 account), Admin $35.99 (up to 5), Pro $53.99 (up to 30) and Premier $69.99 (up to 100), plus $0.49 a month for each account above 100, on cloud and VPS servers. From 16 December 2026: Solo $32.99, Admin $38.99, Pro $58.99, Premier $76.99 a month on Cloud/VPS, and $0.55 per account above 100 (“Bulk accounts start once you reach 101 accounts”). A server with 200 accounts costs $118.99 a month on cPanel today and $10 on Vanta Panel.

Which cPanel alternatives include email hosting?

Vanta Panel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, HestiaCP, CyberPanel, Virtualmin, ISPConfig and OpenPanel Enterprise run a mail server with webmail. Froxlor and aaPanel run Postfix and Dovecot but bundle no webmail. CloudPanel and RunCloud have no mail server: mail stays with an outside provider.

Which cPanel alternatives work with WHMCS?

WHMCS ships modules for cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and Virtualmin. Vanta Panel, OpenPanel (Enterprise) and aaPanel (Pro) publish their own modules. HestiaCP, CyberPanel and Froxlor rely on third-party or community modules, ISPConfig’s third-party module is archived, and CloudPanel and RunCloud have none.

Which cPanel alternatives can import cPanel accounts?

Vanta Panel (a screen in vWHM), Plesk (Plesk Migrator), DirectAdmin (a conversion script), Virtualmin (Migrate Virtual Server), HestiaCP and CyberPanel (command-line tools) and OpenPanel (Enterprise). ISPConfig’s import is a paid toolkit marked beta. CloudPanel, aaPanel, Froxlor and RunCloud have no cPanel importer.

Which cPanel alternative supports Windows Server?

Plesk, on Windows Server 2016 to 2025 with IIS, MailEnable and Microsoft DNS. Every other panel here is Linux only; aaPanel’s blog describes a Windows version but its download page lists Linux only.

What is the best cPanel alternative for reseller hosting?

One with reseller accounts and a WHMCS module: Vanta Panel (resellers and a first-party module on every tier), DirectAdmin (resellers on every tier, WHMCS module shipped by WHMCS), Plesk Web Host, Virtualmin Pro, CyberPanel or OpenPanel Enterprise. Choose by price and operating system: Vanta Panel is $10 a server on Ubuntu or Debian, DirectAdmin $29 on Red Hat-family Linux too.

Can I switch from cPanel without losing email?

Yes, if the new panel imports cPanel backups and you move mail before DNS changes. Vanta Panel’s Import from cPanel recreates the account’s mailboxes along with its domain, databases, files and cron jobs; lower the DNS TTLs first, import, test with your hosts file, then point the MX and A records at the new server.

What happens when a Vanta Panel licence lapses?

Nothing you host goes offline. Websites, email and DNS keep serving, because those are stock Apache, Postfix/Dovecot and PowerDNS running on your machine — the panel manages them, it does not sit in front of them. Management degrades on a published schedule instead. From day 0 the panel reverts to free-tier limits, so you cannot create new hosting accounts, mailboxes or databases, and a renewal banner appears in vWHM; nothing existing is ever deleted. On day 3 automated backups pause — restoring an existing backup keeps working the whole time. On day 7 your customers see a service notice in vPanel. On day 14 vWHM locks to the renewal screen. Paying restores everything on the next licence check, within minutes.

Sources

Where do these facts come from?

From each vendor’s own website, documentation, pricing page and, where relevant, GitHub repository, forum or the WHMCS Marketplace; every table cell above links to the page behind it and carries the date it was read. Vanta Panel facts link to its own documentation. Prices are list prices per server per month and exclude the VPS and tax.

DirectAdmin

Plesk

HestiaCP

CyberPanel

Virtualmin

ISPConfig

CloudPanel

aaPanel

Froxlor

OpenPanel

RunCloud

Tell us if a cell is wrong

Competitors change their products and prices. If a cell here is out of date, email support@vantapanel.com with a link to the vendor’s page and we will correct it, dated. Or use the contact page.

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