Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

[notboring]

My hoster also dropped Plesk along with cPanel due to the price increases and suggested using a free GPL based admin tool instead.

I will seriously miss all those useful paid Plesk-Addons for Wordpress and Monitoring.

 

[D3nnis3n]

My hoster dropped Plesk and cPanel completely and other providers notified me they are either going to drop it as well or at least cannot sell licenses anymore without a server product - but I have no intent to move away from my provider that offers exactly what we need in terms of servers. That would mean the only remaining place to get a Plesk license would be here, horribly overpriced. Seems we need to look for a open source alternative, as we did with ProxMox when VMWare went to the trash. Really sad, you should reconsider what you are doing there, it's absolutely anti-consumer and hopefully in the end only hurts you.

I understand that this situation is not ideal and I can see that there is constructive criticism in your feedback. Thank you, it is invaluable. I would like to encourage anyone willing to share their input on what improvements/features would in your opinion justify a price increase, what changes you would like to see in the future, even your own view of better structure of the licensing. Thank you in advance.

Nothing - the price is already too high. We want a steady price, not more features. Ridiculous!

 

[UHolthausen]

Hello

I also received such a mail from my hoster yesterday, I will probably switch to a free interface.....

 

[HHawk]

What else did you expect with price increases of 45% (Plesk Web Pro Edition) and 50% (Plesk Web Host Edition)? It's insane. I think the pricing, from what we paid prior to 2017 has increased over 2500% (and that's no joke). Sure we had way too low pricing back then, but it's now completely the opposite.

Customers do not want to pay that much. The majority was paying more for a Plesk license than for their server (hardware-wise). It's simply insane and very unhealthy.

 

[Mike99]

Feedback for @Sebahat.hadzhi and everyone else from the company behind Plesk

The recent price increase for Plesk is neither justified by inflation nor product improvements. As a long-time legacy customer using Plesk through Hetzner, I manage 25 servers. I switched from cPanel to Plesk because of cPanel’s pricing policies. Paying more for a software license than some hardware already felt excessive, but now the increasing costs, combined with unnecessary extensions and features nobody requested, are frustrating. Basic features like antivirus and spam filtering with ham/spam integrated should be included, not added at an extra cost as paid plugins.

Also it is very rude to increase pricing for the product and aggressively up-sell our customers, from time to time, without any warning I learn that my customers see offers that I need to turn off by Googling the documentation and adding unnecessary lines to panel.ini.

No customer wants the annual stress of wondering what Plesk will do with pricing. Learning that Hetzner—one of the most reliable and stable partners—has dropped Plesk was a wake-up call. This signals a significant problem: a nearly 100% price increase for the same product moving directly to Plesk suggests greed rather than value. This pattern indicates that the price-to-quality ratio is deteriorating. It also tells you about the margin and how much to product really costs and what could be the real price.

If Plesk is testing how much customers will tolerate price hikes, it may backfire. Migration away from a platform isn't immediate; customers plan and prepare. By the time they’re ready to switch, their decision is final, and no incentive will convince them to stay. Losing trusted distributors like Hetzner will hurt, and compensating for these losses with further price increases will only exacerbate the problem.

I am willing to pay up to €35 per server, but anything beyond that isn’t justified by the current offering. I don't think is fair to pay more for software, than for the infrastructure, where server providers have to deal with pricing of electricity, building construction, buying land to build on, IPs, contracting connectivity, employing highly skilled technicians, buying servers, taking a lot of risk to make sure servers will sell in current configuration, building or leasing software to orchestrate all of this and you want the similar price tag, with 1000% margin.

If other readers know open source alternatives to Plesk, please PM me, I want to move some of my servers to software more financially stable as I am providing low cost services. I am looking for something to invest into, so the money I pay monthly goes to the right people that will listen to what is the next feature I want, keeping it lean and cheap.

 

[D3nnis3n]

I would also be interested in Open Source alternatives (especially such including DNS / Mail, not just webhosting) or any alternative that has a fair pricing of ~5 € / month for personal use servers (and I do not need any of the special apps like SiteJet or WordPress and whatnot that Plesk offers, I've been paying for Pro without needing anything but the base functionality and the server view), of which I need to migrate a dozen away from Plesk with my provider no longer offering it. I already found a few alternatives, but it will take a while to assess them all, so any input is appreciated.

12,99 € as Plesk will now ask for the lowest tier is more than double a fair ask for my usage. I currently pay less than 7 € for each Plesk license. For that money I can get a small cloud server with backup plan - insane. Even my Microsoft Subscriptions are cheaper.

 

[manni]

Totally agree, we will cancel all licenses by end of year.

 

[bootted]

It's every year the same. See the other thread here: Question - Massive price increase for reseller licenses?. Sigh.

And like Maarten said; it's because they have shareholders behind the Investment Group. Prices will increase every year and also every other product in the WebPros portfolio e.g. SolusVM, WHMCS, cPanel, etc... All will be increased every single year, over and over...

You can inform the investors that I am currently evaluating free platforms to host my network of websites. Plesk is fortunate because I have numerous online projects that I cannot afford to take offline in case of migration issues. However, I am gradually transitioning to CloudPanel and Webmin. This change won't happen overnight, but it is inevitable.

Plesk is a powerful tool, but the monthly subscription feels more like extortion than proper license management. I already canceled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at the beginning of 2024 after 8 years, switching to Photopea + AI and DaVinci Resolve as alternatives to Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

I’m not afraid of change, especially now that I have Anthropic Claude supporting me with server customizations.

We are also a Hetzner client, and we are not pleased that we are now forced to order directly from Plesk, as we do not need the additional support included in their direct pricing model.

Currently, we hold numerous licenses for the Web PRO Edition at a price of €11.66 per month. Going forward, the price for new licenses will be €22.99 per month, representing an increase of 97.2%. I do not blame Hetzner—they are simply summarizing what is currently wrong with Plesk:

"The provider's expansive pricing strategy and the low customer demand have prompted us to take this step." (ChatGPT translation)

Nevertheless, this decision will gradually prompt us to move away from Plesk. New servers will have the opportunity to be built on alternative solutions.

I remember the golden days of 2018 when I could purchase the Admin Pro license for €6.20 directly through Hetzner invoicing, without dealing with Plesk’s website. Now, that's gone, and the license costs €18.29 per month. They’re kind enough to offer a discount to €10.98, which is still almost double the price in 2018.

While Plesk has improved significantly over the years, it hasn’t improved enough to justify this price hike. In fact, with all the new features, it has become more complex and resource-intensive than it used to be. Currently, I’ve downgraded to the Web Admin plan, limiting my sites to just 10 projects. All new projects will be deployed directly through Debian + Webmin to familiarize myself with it, aiming to eventually migrate everything there in 3-6 months.

 

[HHawk]

@bootted just wanted to say I love your avatar! ;-)

 

[bootted]

It was inspired by yours

Anyway, tonight I'm migrating to CloudPanel. The first site went smoothly, now it's time for the other 9.
In the meantime, I got a refund for the Plesk license I purchased during Black Friday.