specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: cPanel
providerId: cpanel
generated: '2026-09-05'
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://cpanel.net/pricing/
description: >-
  cPanel's published plans, read from its pricing page on 2026-09-05. They replace a 2026-05-04
  bulk-sweep scaffold that invented a free tier and a 1,000-requests-per-month API quota; neither
  exists. THE CRITICAL FACT FOR AN API CONSUMER: cPanel does not sell API access and does not
  meter API calls. It licenses the cPanel & WHM software per server, priced by the number of
  cPanel ACCOUNTS the server hosts, and the UAPI, WHM API 1, cPanel API 2 and Manage2 APIs are
  included with every licence at no additional cost and with no published call quota. The unit of
  pricing is accounts, not requests.
pricing_model: per-server-licence-by-account-count
currency: USD
billing_periods: [monthly, annual]
annual_discount: 8.4%
tax_note: All prices exclude tax.
plans:
  - id: solo
    name: Solo
    audience: Freelancers and small agencies managing a single server
    price_monthly: 29.99
    price_annual_per_month: 27.46
    currency: USD
    included_accounts: 1
    overage: null
    platform: Cloud/VPS only
    api_access: full — all APIs included, no call quota published
  - id: admin
    name: Admin
    audience: Application developers and small dev shops
    price_monthly: 35.99
    price_annual_per_month: 32.96
    currency: USD
    included_accounts: 5
    included_accounts_qualifier: up to
    overage: null
    platform: Cloud/VPS only
    api_access: full — all APIs included, no call quota published
  - id: pro
    name: Pro
    audience: Large agencies and growing hosting businesses
    price_monthly: 53.99
    price_annual_per_month: 49.46
    currency: USD
    included_accounts: 30
    included_accounts_qualifier: up to
    overage: null
    platform: Cloud/VPS only
    api_access: full — all APIs included, no call quota published
  - id: premier
    name: Premier
    audience: Data centers and enterprise hosting operations
    price_monthly: 69.99
    price_annual_per_month: null
    currency: USD
    included_accounts: 100
    included_accounts_qualifier: up to
    overage:
      unit: account
      price: 0.49
      period: month
    platform: Cloud/VPS and Metal/Dedicated
    extras: [Custom branding]
    api_access: full — all APIs included, no call quota published
  - id: wp-squared
    name: WP Squared
    audience: Managed WordPress delivery, built on cPanel with WHM retained
    price_monthly: 84.99
    price_annual_per_month: null
    currency: USD
    included_units:
      unit: WordPress site
      count: 10
    overage:
      unit: WordPress site
      price: 0.40
      period: month
    api_access: full — all APIs included, no call quota published
included_in_every_plan:
  - WP Toolkit
  - Website Builder
  - Email accounts
  - Unlimited websites
  - SSL certificates
  - Self-guided Migration
  - Website Monitoring
free_tier:
  exists: false
  trial:
    exists: true
    length_days: 15
    credit_card_required: false
    url: https://www.cpanel.net/products/trial/
    caveat: >-
      The trial is not a hosted sandbox — it is a licence to install cPanel & WHM on a server you
      already have, on an approved Linux distribution with root access and a registered domain.
add_ons:
  note: >-
    The pricing page lists partner add-ons with "starting from" prices only and no included
    quantities; they are recorded as prices, not as plans.
  observed_starting_prices_usd_per_month: [45, 34.95, 16.8, 29, 3, 25, 8.95]
  store: https://store.cpanel.net/
plan_count: 5
api_metering:
  metered: false
  quota_published: false
  note: >-
    Searched the pricing page, the FAQ on it, the developer documentation and both OpenAPI
    documents. No per-call price, no request quota and no API-tier distinction exists anywhere.