Compare cPanel license prices year over year and see exactly what an increase costs your license mix.
Published cPanel store prices. Switch to partner pricing to enter your own rates.
| License | Qty | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo1 account | |||
| Adminup to 5 | |||
| Proup to 30 | |||
| Premierup to 100 | |||
| Overageaccounts over 100 |
Optional. Estimates only.
Published cPanel prices per month. Partner rates aren’t public, so they aren’t charted. Click a license to show or hide its line.
Select a license above to show its line.
Retail prices are cPanel’s published monthly store prices, effective in January of each year. Everything is calculated in your browser. cPanel® is a registered trademark of its owner; this calculator is independent and not affiliated with cPanel.
This cPanel price increase calculator works out what a licence price change actually costs your hosting business, across your whole fleet rather than one licence at a time. Enter your licence mix and it returns the monthly and annual difference, the percentage change, and what you would need to charge to cover it. It handles retail pricing and partner pricing. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere.
Enter how many licences you hold at each tier, plus the number of accounts you are running above the 100 included with Premier. The calculator compares the two years side by side and returns your total monthly cost before and after, the annual difference, and the percentage change.
Retail mode uses cPanel's published store prices. The fields are read-only, so there is nothing to fill in beyond your licence counts.
Partner mode makes every price field editable, for both the old and the new year. We can't ship a table of partner rates because there isn't one to ship. What a partner pays depends on the agreement they hold with cPanel, and those numbers are not public. The fields come prefilled with retail prices, so you only change the rows where your rate differs. If your agreement gives you nothing on Solo or on overage accounts, leave those rows at retail and the maths still works.
Overage is entered as its own line rather than calculated from your licence count. Accounts are spread across servers in ways no calculator can infer, so the honest approach is to ask you.
ChemiCloud is a cPanel partner and buys licences at partner rates. That's the reason partner billing is modelled here at all, and the reason we know the published prices are only half the picture.
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Pro took the largest increase in both dollar and percentage terms, which matters because Pro is the tier most mid-size hosts actually run. A host with ten Pro licences absorbed $840 a year from that line alone.
Premier looks mild at 6.1% until you add overage. A Premier server carrying 400 accounts pays for 300 of them at the per-account rate, and that rate rose 8.9%. The larger the server, the more the overage line drives the real number.
The increases only make sense against what happened in 2019, when cPanel moved from per-server licensing to per-account licensing. Before that change, a dedicated server licence cost somewhere around $45 a month and covered as many accounts as you could fit on the box. Afterwards, the same server running roughly a thousand accounts could cost in the region of $245 a month. That was not an increase in the ordinary sense. It was a different business model, and every adjustment since has compounded on top of it.
Solo is the outlier. It sat flat through 2023, moved slightly in 2024, then jumped more than 50% in a single year. An operator running one account on a $10 VPS now pays three times more for the control panel than for the server underneath it.
No single year on this table looks alarming in isolation. That is the point. A host who signed up in 2022 at Pro pricing and never changed anything is paying 50% more for the same software on the same server.
The chart and the table below show retail pricing only. Partner and NOC rates follow a different scale and are not published, which is why the calculator lets you enter your own.
Most miscalculations come from one of four places.
One account means one main cPanel user, usually a domain owner or a reseller. Addon domains, parked domains and subdomains created inside an existing account do not count toward your total. A reseller holding thirty sites under one cPanel user is one account, not thirty. If you are counting domains, your number is too high.
Solo, Admin and Pro are ceilings. Reach the limit and the next account forces you onto the tier above, whatever the price difference. There is no partial upgrade and no per-account option at those tiers.
Premier is the exception. Above its hundred accounts you pay the per-account rate for each additional one, which is why large servers need the overage line entered accurately.
Each licence is tied to a server and validated against its IP address. Cloud and metal licences differ in how they are provisioned but are priced the same way. Moving a licence between servers means reissuing it against the new IP.
Two things sit outside the tier table. Extended Lifecycle Support surcharges apply to servers on legacy operating systems such as CentOS 7 and CloudLinux 7, and they are billed on top of the licence. And monthly billing costs more than annual, by roughly 8.4%. Neither appears in the headline prices, and both show up on the invoice.
What counts as a cPanel account? One main cPanel user, typically a domain owner or a reseller. Addon domains, parked domains, subdomains and email accounts inside an existing user do not add to the count. Your account total is the number of cPanel users on the server, which you can read directly from WHM.
When does cPanel usually announce price increases? Recent changes have been announced in the autumn and taken effect in December or at the start of the following year. The 2026 rates were announced in late 2025 and applied from mid-December. Treat October through early December as the window worth watching.
Does an increase apply to my existing licences immediately? It applies from the effective date on the announcement, not from the announcement itself. Licences already paid for run to the end of their billing period at the old rate. If you are billed monthly, the first invoice after the effective date carries the new price.
Is annual billing cheaper than monthly? Yes, by roughly 8.4%. On a Premier licence that is about $70 a year per server. If you are running several licences and your cash position allows it, switching billing cycle recovers a meaningful share of a typical increase without touching your own prices.
Do I pay for overage accounts I'm not using? No. Overage is charged on accounts that exist, not on capacity. Suspended and terminated accounts should drop off your count, so it's worth auditing before you renew. Stale accounts on a large Premier server are a common source of quiet overspend.
Why is partner pricing different from the prices on cPanel's site? The prices published on cpanel.net are retail. Partners and NOCs hold agreements with their own rate cards, which are not public and vary by the size and terms of the arrangement. That is why this calculator has a partner mode instead of a second price table.
Knowing the number is the easy part. Deciding what to do about it is harder, and the answer depends on your margin, your average plan price, and how many of your customers are locked into annual terms you can't reprice yet. We worked through that in What the cPanel increase costs your hosting business, including how to calculate the per-customer increase you would need and what it costs you to absorb it instead.
ChemiCloud has been on the receiving end of every one of the increases in the table above. If you would rather not run licence maths at all, our reseller hosting plans include the licensing.
