Koapanel: hosting reseller panel for Ubuntu 24.04, how it works and pricing

Anyone managing servers on behalf of third parties knows the dilemma well: purchase a reseller account from a provider, with shared capacity and margins set by others, or install your own panel on a VPS and sell hosting under your own brand. Koapanel, a panel for Ubuntu 24.04 servers (and in more recent versions also 26.04, AlmaLinux 9 and Rocky Linux 9), is explicitly aimed at those who choose the second path: web agencies, freelancers and small providers who want to resell hosting without going through someone else's panel.

How it's structured

The panel follows the WHM and cPanel model, with three tiers (accounts and roles): the administrator manages the server and all accounts, creates resellers and sets their limits; the reseller creates packages and customers under their own brand; the end user manages only their own sites, within the limits of the assigned package. White label (logo, custom login domain, own nameservers) is not an extra: it's included in every paid plan, along with reseller and package management. Those coming from another panel don't start from scratch: migration from cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin or any Linux server via SSH is supported.

The pricing list, verified today

The official koapanel.app website publishes a pricing list per server, not per site: Commercial use needs a paid plan (Free is for personal sites): Starter €7.90 (10 sites), Pro €14.90 (30 sites), Agency €24.90 (unlimited sites), per server per month, excluding VAT.

Plan	Price/month per server	Sites	Commercial use
Free	€0	up to 3	No, personal use only
Starter	€7.90	10	Yes
Pro	€14.90	30	Yes
Agency	€24.90	unlimited	Yes

Prices excluding VAT, verified on the pricing page of koapanel.app as of 10 November 2026.

The real cost of reselling this way

The manufacturer itself publishes a sample P&L statement worth reporting because it puts the numbers in perspective: VPS with 8 GB RAM and SSD/NVMe storage €30, S3 storage for offsite backups €5, panel licence (Koapanel Agency, unlimited sites) €24.90, SMTP relay for outbound mail if port 25 is blocked €0–15, for a total of around €60–75. Against this expense, the example assumes 40 customers at €15 per month, that is €600 per month in revenue, with a gross margin of around €525–540 per month, which falls to €325–340 net when considering 5 hours of monthly work at €40 per hour for updates, monitoring and customer requests. These are figures stated by the manufacturer as an example, not laboratory measurements: they should be taken as an order of magnitude, not as a margin guarantee.

When it makes sense compared to a traditional reseller account

The difference from a reseller account purchased from a provider is not just price: it's the model. With a traditional cPanel or Plesk reseller you're renting a share of a server already managed by others, with patches, backups and capacity decided by the provider. With Koapanel you manage your own VPS: you pay for the panel licence plus infrastructure, but you decide capacity, server location and backup policies. It's also worth noting that the comparison ground has shifted: the LTS currently supported by cPanel is 24.04, so even those staying on a more traditional panel are now working on the same Ubuntu foundation. Those with a stable existing customer base who don't want to deal with system updates are better served by a classic reseller account; those who want full margin and server control have in Koapanel an option with public and verifiable pricing.

Koapanel is a Prime Software product.