Nearly everything cPanel does — for a flat per-server price
PanelFi runs the same hosting a cPanel server runs: websites, email, databases, DNS, SSL, WordPress, resellers and hardened security. The difference is how it’s licensed — flat per server with unlimited accounts, a real free edition, and the option to own your version forever.
| Feature | PanelFi | cPanel |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited websites, domains & subdomains | Yes | Yes |
| Full file manager with editor | Yes | Yes |
| Email hosting — webmail, forwarders, spam filtering | Yes | Yes |
| MySQL / MariaDB databases & phpMyAdmin | Yes | Yes |
| DNS zone editor & nameservers | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Let’s Encrypt SSL | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled backups & restore | Yes | Yes |
| Resellers, packages & quotas | Yes | Yes |
| ModSecurity, firewall & brute-force protection | Yes | Yes |
| CloudLinux OS (LVE limits, CageFS, PHP Selector, MySQL Governor) | Yes | Yes |
| Imunify360 / ImunifyAV integration | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in account isolation without CloudLinux | Yes | No (needs CloudLinux) |
| Two-factor authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Resource usage & metrics | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js, Python & Git | Yes | Yes |
| Where PanelFi is different | ||
| WordPress toolkit | Included free | WP Toolkit |
| App installer (Joomla, Drupal, Nextcloud…) | Included free | Usually a paid Softaculous add-on |
| Built-in cPanel account migration | Yes — over SSH or backup | — |
| OpenLiteSpeed or NGINX engine choice | Yes | Apache / EA stack |
| Free edition | Yes — $0 for 3 accounts | No free edition |
| Perpetual ownership | Yes — own your version | Subscription only |
| Licensing model | Flat per server — unlimited accounts | Per-account tiers that scale up |
| Pricing | $25/mo, $225/yr or $750 once | Per-account subscription |
cPanel is long-established and widely used; PanelFi takes a different, server-based approach, and both are self-hosted. Feature parity is approximate and based on each panel’s standard capabilities. See the editions comparison →
Same hosting. A different bill.
cPanel is licensed per account, so your cost climbs as you add customers. PanelFi is licensed per server — one price covers unlimited accounts, domains and customers on that machine. Add a hundred sites and your license cost doesn’t move.
And PanelFi Free is genuinely free for up to 3 accounts, with no card and no key — so you can run real hosting before you pay anything.
- Unlimited hosting accounts
- Resellers & white-label
- Free tier & perpetual option
- Priced in account tiers
- No free edition
- Subscription only
Switch in a few clicks
Bring your cPanel accounts across over SSH or from a backup, then run them for a flat per-server price.