• The new Python extension is now available. It allows customers to deploy and manage WSGI-based Python applications on their websites directly from Plesk.
  • Debian 11 has reached its end-of-life (vendor EOL date - August 31, 2026). Plesk Obsidian 18.0.81 is the last release to support it.
    If you are running Plesk Obsidian on Debian 11, we recommend you upgrade those servers to Debian 12 using our dist-upgrade tool.
  • We plan to deprecate and remove the support for XML RPC protocol versions earlier than 1.6.9.1 in Plesk Obsidian 18.0.82. We strongly recommend that you update all existing integrations using earlier versions of the XML RPC protocol to comply with the version 1.6.9.1 specification.

Input I see the new inflated 2027 prices have arrived

Tim_Wakeling

Tim_Wakeling

Basic Pleskian
Quelle surprise.

Got an email today which told me it was to "share an update to Plesk pricing". Unfortunately it didn't contain any prices, but did contain a link to a PDF where the prices were listed (without VAT of course) on page 6.

Paid monthly:
Web Admin goes from £17 to £19 (12% rise)
Web Pro goes from £30 to £34 (13% rise)
Web Host goes from £63 to £74 (17% rise)

Paid annually, the prices go up in the same proportions.

Inflation this year was 3%, so once again these increases bear no relation whatsoever to actual increases in costs.

This is now the seventh consecutive year in which prices have risen by several TIMES inflation.

Are we to expect the exponential curve to hit infinity at some point, Plesk?

Not happy. But waiting to see what we get for Black Friday as temporary "compensation".
 
Came here to say the same but you've beaten me to it, so I'll reply here instead to say that this really is getting absolutely ridiculous now.

Our bill will be going up by another £11 + vat per Plesk install? I'm sure we were paying more around the £25 p/m mark for unlimited domains when we first signed up.

The kick in the teeth for me personally though, is that this jump seems to be mostly because you're working on features to allow AI agents to control Plesk? I don't want this. I don't want any AI features at all, let alone ones that offer a potential backdoor to our servers. If others want such functionality, fine, but why do we all have to pay for it?

We run a number of Plesk servers both as QWeb and for various other UK agencies. I've advocated Plesk for decades, we ask all of our agency clients to buy licenses for the servers that we manage. I can't warrant doing this any more - I can't comfortably tell clients that this price point is warranted.

Plesk needs to return to a more reasonable base price for core features, with the likes of AI functionality as add-ons for those who want to fund that development. Unless this happens, we're going to have to start migrating the servers that we manage.
 
I was already considering to spend multiple days to migrate to another platform, now I'm sure. It's just been a moneygrab for a few years now. Pricing has become outrageous, just because they think people won't leave.
 
You can set your clock on it as this happens every frigging single year with all WebPros products. We have informed our (remaining) Plesk server customers about the yearly price hike. And we received again a few cancellations for their Plesk servers. It's good that we now also been offering other solutions for the past 1,5 year. Cheaper and keeps our server owners happy. We were one of the biggest Plesk sellers in our country, but that really declined after the yearly price increase.

For the record; we had close to 800 Plesk licenses in the past (posted a screenshot as proof in one of those older price hike threads), now we have less than 50. Probably after this hike it will be closes to 30. Haha. Plesk/WebPros are cutting themselves in the finger with these price hikes. But luckily their are more and more alternatives nowadays. So I really don't care about the price hikes anymore. It's only a matter of time that our company will be Plesk free (and hopefully WebPros free as well). Maybe WebPros should raise their pricing 200% straight away? Probably they can still "justify" that hike as well.

Ah well, I am not further wasting my time on this. I just found it funny as I received the "2027 Plesk Pricing + Introducing the Partner Incentive Program"-email and decided to check the forum. I was not surprised two see already two complaint threads about the new price increase. ;-)

Good job Plesk/WebPros! Keep it up. I doubt in the end you will have any customers (or partners for that matter) left in a few years. :-D

For reference see also threads about these price increases from the past:
Plesk, or better said, WebPros does not care at all what customers thing. You will hear (Plesk) staff saying that they appreciate your input, but that's a complete lie. Nothing is or ever will be done about it. It happens every single year, as stated above, it's been happening every year for the past 7 years.
 
Following the latest round of price increases announced by Plesk / WebPros, we have sent the following message to our (remaining) Plesk server customers. Below is a summary of what we communicated:

Seven consecutive years of price increases. Apparently, WebPros believes this is a tradition worth keeping.

For 2027, Plesk licensing costs will increase by approximately 12% to 17%, following yet another annual price adjustment. Unfortunately, as a hosting provider, we have little choice but to pass these additional costs on to customers operating their own Plesk servers.

We made it clear that while we fully understand the costs associated with software development, maintenance and security, seven consecutive years of substantial price increases are becoming increasingly difficult to justify.

Plesk has gradually evolved into an increasingly complex and expensive control panel, packed with additional features, integrations and commercial services that many customers simply do not need or want. Most of our customers just want to manage their websites, email, databases and domains reliably. Apparently, that is becoming quite an expensive luxury.

In our opinion, Plesk is slowly moving towards what could reasonably be described as bloated software with an increasingly unreasonable price tag. More features do not automatically mean more value, especially when customers have little interest in using them.

We also informed our customers that starting in 2027, we will actively expand our hosting control panel offerings with more affordable alternatives. We will continue to offer and support Plesk, but we believe customers deserve a choice rather than being financially tied to an increasingly expensive software ecosystem.

We also pointed out that this pricing strategy is not limited to Plesk. Other WebPros products, including cPanel, WHMCS and SolusVM, are also affected by recurring price increases. Quite a consistent business strategy, one might say.

Finally, we encouraged customers who disagree with these increases to contact WebPros directly and express their dissatisfaction. We have been raising these concerns ourselves for seven years, with seemingly little to no effect.

Perhaps feedback from end customers will make a difference, although after seven years, we are not particularly optimistic.

To summarize our message to customers:

We are not against paying reasonable licensing fees for good software. We are against being confronted with substantial price increases year after year, without seeing a corresponding increase in value.

We will continue supporting Plesk, but we are no longer willing to treat it as the obvious default choice for every customer.

Seven years of complaints have achieved very little. Perhaps offering customers alternatives will eventually send a clearer message than words ever could.
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QWeb Ric said:
Came here to say the same but you've beaten me to it, so I'll reply here instead to say that this really is getting absolutely ridiculous now.

Our bill will be going up by another £11 + vat per Plesk install? I'm sure we were paying more around the £25 p/m mark for unlimited domains when we first signed up.

The kick in the teeth for me personally though, is that this jump seems to be mostly because you're working on features to allow AI agents to control Plesk? I don't want this. I don't want any AI features at all, let alone ones that offer a potential backdoor to our servers. If others want such functionality, fine, but why do we all have to pay for it?

We run a number of Plesk servers both as QWeb and for various other UK agencies. I've advocated Plesk for decades, we ask all of our agency clients to buy licenses for the servers that we manage. I can't warrant doing this any more - I can't comfortably tell clients that this price point is warranted.

Plesk needs to return to a more reasonable base price for core features, with the likes of AI functionality as add-ons for those who want to fund that development. Unless this happens, we're going to have to start migrating the servers that we manage.
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You aren't imagining it. In 2017 Plesk cost just £216 including VAT per year for the top licence allowing unlimited domains. Now it is more than four times that.

In 2018 they sheepishly emailed to say they were increasing prices by 53% because they'd been static for so long, and to be honest, that was fair enough. They said they wouldn't keep doing it, and for two more years, they didn't, before increasing 10% in 2021. All of this was understandable.

But that's when the trouble started. 2022 brought another 10% rise, then 2023 a further 17%. 2024's hike was 14%. Now the bosses started seeing dollar signs in their eyes, and we got 23% in 2025 and 26% in 2026, before this year at 17% again.

Without the context of the previous years' rises, this year's hike to cover AI integration seems not unreasonable (though an alternative package without it would have been a good idea). But in context we can clearly see that's little more than an excuse to continue a familiar pattern.

Furthermore, the artificial domain limits of 10 and 30 on the lower plans mean that people are forced to pay for advanced server management and reseller features they have no use for, simply because of the number of domains they happen to be hosting. That leaves a very bad taste when the prices are so significant.
 
IgorG (former Plesk forum manager of whatever it's called) is working for ISPmanager. I haven't tried their stuff, but it seems solid. It also is way more affordable compared to Plesk. Might be worth investigating.
 
Couldn't edit my previous reply anymore unfortunately, but there are quite a lot of solid and good alternatives nowadays (2026) and in 2027 there will be defintiely more options available. WebPros has overplayed their hand once more by increasing again their product prices year after year, after year... =
 
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