An SMM panel engine is almost never sold once and for all. You pay a maintenance fee every month, and the amount depends on how many orders went through your panel. Comparing offers from their websites is hard: one platform prices by orders, another by "requests", a third takes a cut of your income. We opened the price lists of four platforms on 1 November 2026 and worked out what the same panel costs on each.
Four price lists, four different logics
- PerfectPanel, international. A flat fee based on last month's order count, starting at $50.
- PerfectPanel, Russian entity. A licence for a registered company: 5,000 roubles per every 100,000 requests.
- RentalPanel. Same logic as PerfectPanel international, but roughly half the price, plus a one-off setup fee.
- SocPanel. A percentage: 5% of the panel's income and $10 to activate.
- Renting from us. Free up to 100 orders a month, then a plan by volume, and orders filled through our own catalogue are never billed at all.
PerfectPanel: $50 from day one
Their pricing page is a ladder: plan A covers 0 to 1,000 monthly orders at $50; plan B up to 5,000 at $75; plan C up to 15,000 at $100; plan D up to 50,000 at $150; plan E up to 100,000 at $200; plan F up to 200,000 at $250. Every extra 100,000 orders adds $50, and the last step in the table is $1,250.
Three details matter more than the numbers:
- The first month always costs $50 no matter how few orders you get. There is no free tier and no trial announced on the page.
- Your plan follows the previous period. It moves both ways: if volume drops, next month is cheaper.
- Every order counts, completed or canceled, and a subscription or drip-feed order counts as one regular order.
That last rule costs more than it looks. Failed orders, customer cancellations and your own test runs all feed the same counter, so a bad month can land you one step higher than your earnings justify.
The Russian price list: a different model, companies only
The Russian site of the same product carries a tariff policy dated 1 June 2026 instead of a plan table. The model is different: 5,000 roubles per every 100,000 requests from the licensee's site, with the first period agreed in the contract based on expected volume.
- The licensee must be a legal entity - it says so in the definitions, which closes this route for a solo reseller.
- The contract is signed as a document, and the tariff policy explicitly states it is not a public offer.
- Payment is due in full within 25 days of the period start; on arrears, access to the server side can be suspended, and downtime is not credited back.
You cannot compare those 5,000 roubles with the dollar ladder directly: one counts orders, the other counts site requests, and the accounting rules live inside their software. In budgeting terms, you learn the exact number from the invoice.
RentalPanel: same ladder, lower steps
Their grid mirrors PerfectPanel at roughly half the cost: $10 up to 100 orders, $20 up to 1,000, $35 up to 5,000, $50 up to 15,000, $75 up to 50,000, $100 up to 100,000 and $150 up to 200,000. Hosting is included in every plan and they sell no SMM services.
Two conditions in their own answers change the starting budget. There is a one-off $10 setup fee, and your own domain is mandatory - no free address on their subdomain, so a domain purchase joins the monthly bill from day one.
SocPanel: 5% of income, and when that pays off
No ladder here at all. The platform takes 5%, and only on completed orders: no income, no fee. Launching costs $10, a first deposit that activates the panel; creating one and looking around is free.
For someone who has not sold anything yet, that is gentler than any flat fee, and it is honestly their strongest point. It also inverts as you grow. If income means the panel's turnover (their site only says "completed orders" and never defines it), the arithmetic goes like this:
- $800 a month - a $40 fee, exactly what our plan for up to 100,000 orders costs.
- $3,000 a month - $150, more than any flat plan in this review.
- $10,000 a month - $500, more than PerfectPanel charges for a panel doing a million orders.
The same panel, side by side
The clearest test is one panel and one monthly invoice. SocPanel is left out of this list because its fee follows turnover, not orders.
- 100 orders: PerfectPanel $50, RentalPanel $10 plus $10 once, ours $0.
- 1,000 orders: PerfectPanel $50, RentalPanel $20, ours $12.
- 5,000 orders: PerfectPanel $75, RentalPanel $35, ours $25.
- 15,000 orders: PerfectPanel $100, RentalPanel $50, ours $40.
- 100,000 orders: PerfectPanel $200, RentalPanel $100, ours $40.
- 200,000 orders: PerfectPanel $250, RentalPanel $150, ours $80.
And one line nobody else in this list has: only orders sent to third-party providers count towards our limit. Canceled orders are not counted at all, and orders filled through our own catalogue are never billed, neither the first nor the thousandth. A reseller who buys from us runs the panel free at any volume, because we earn on the service margin rather than on rent.
What no price includes
- The SMM services themselves. Neither PerfectPanel nor RentalPanel sells them; SocPanel offers a list of direct providers. Your balance with a provider is a separate budget line, and it is what sets your margin.
- A domain. RentalPanel requires your own. We hand out a free address on our subdomain with a certificate, and your own domain connects with a single CNAME whenever you have one.
- Taking payments. You connect a gateway with your own keys and pass its moderation yourself - that is weeks of correspondence, not a button.
- Translating the storefront. Every platform ships a limited set of languages; the rest is on the tenant.
Those lines are broken down in what it costs to launch an SMM panel, and the non-price criteria are in how to choose a rental service.
Where each of them beats us
- PerfectPanel has been on the market since 2013 and runs the most mature ecosystem in the niche: a site editor, mobile apps, more than two hundred payment integrations. Its Russian edition is in the national software registry and its licence is VAT-exempt, which is an accounting argument we simply do not have.
- RentalPanel is the closest to us on price among flat plans, with an open demo and hosting included.
- SocPanel ships more than two hundred payment systems and over twenty storefront languages. We have five working gateway drivers and four built-in storefront languages - if you need a local gateway we do not support, the honest answer is: write to us, but today it is not there.
Our side of the comparison is short: panel rental with a free tier up to 100 orders a month, an invoice only when you go over it, and nothing at all for volume bought from our catalogue. No invoice on day one and no card required. How we differ in features rather than price is on the PerfectPanel alternative page.
