Free tier
Uncapped- BeAdmin
- No site cap
- ZesleCP
- 2 sites
ZesleCP is a lightweight freemium panel (3.1.x LTS, support promised through 2030) for Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7, Rocky and AlmaLinux 8, with a free licence capped at two sites. BeAdmin shares the freemium idea but keeps its free core uncapped, ships a built‑in VPN and a module catalogue, and runs on Debian and Ubuntu. Below — what we can state plainly, and where public data on ZesleCP is still thin.
Free core · No site cap · Debian & Ubuntu
Free tier
UncappedBuilt‑in VPN
Only BeAdminAdd‑on model
À la carteOS family
DifferentBoth panels are freemium. ZesleCP’s free licence is limited to two sites; paid tiers raise the cap in steps — Solo up to 15 sites, Personal up to 50, and unlimited only from Pro at $12/mo. BeAdmin keeps its free core with no limit on the number of sites you host.
Xray, WireGuard, OpenVPN, Outline, Amnezia and Mimicry are modules in the same UI. ZesleCP ships no VPN — that part you would build and run yourself.
BeAdmin keeps the core free and lets you switch on extras à la carte, from €1/mo — Docker and the VPN family live here. ZesleCP scales through paid licence tiers instead.
ZesleCP installs on Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7, Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8; Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 and Rocky and AlmaLinux 9 are not on the list. BeAdmin targets Debian and Ubuntu — pick the base that matches your fleet.
Values pulled from each panel’s public materials. Both are lightweight freemium panels with a broadly similar core; where ZesleCP’s public docs are thin we mark a row as a draw rather than claim a win for either side.
Both panels are free to start. ZesleCP’s free licence stops at two sites; paid tiers raise the cap in steps, and unlimited starts at Pro ($12/mo). BeAdmin keeps its free core with no limit on the sites you host, so a busy box never bumps into a wall.
Xray, WireGuard, OpenVPN, Outline, Amnezia, Mimicry — turn any of them on with a single click. ZesleCP has no VPN; that part you would build and maintain yourself outside the panel.
BeAdmin keeps the core free and bills only the modules you enable, from €1/mo — Docker and the VPN family among them. ZesleCP grows through paid licence tiers rather than per‑module add‑ons.
ZesleCP supports Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7, Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8 — nothing newer is on the list. BeAdmin runs natively on the Debian and Ubuntu images most providers default to, with no CentOS heritage to plan around.
Both are lightweight freemium panels; the honest gap is that ZesleCP’s public docs are thin on several points, so we mark those as unclear rather than guess. Synthesised from public materials — your mileage may vary.
Both panels start free. ZesleCP caps its free licence at two sites and raises the limit through paid tiers from $2.5/mo, unlimited from Pro; BeAdmin keeps the core free and bills only the modules you switch on.
From 1 €/mo. Enable only what you need, disable any time — no site cap. The VPN family lives here.
forever
per month · $20 a year · $70 for life
per month · $62 a year · $195 for life
per month · $94 a year · $295 for life
per month · $140 a year · $510 for life
ZesleCP offers a 15‑day trial of a paid tier on top of the free licence. The API and the WHMCS module are available only on Pro and Business.
ZesleCP pricing from zeslecp.com (2026; figures may change). BeAdmin module pricing from beadmin.com.
The smallest VPS each panel will comfortably run on. Where ZesleCP does not publish a figure we say so rather than estimate.
Source: zeslecp.com (some figures not published). BeAdmin requirements from internal documentation.
If your ZesleCP server runs Ubuntu the move can stay on the same OS; on the CentOS family it means a fresh Debian or Ubuntu box. The old panel stays up until you retire it.
On Ubuntu you can move without switching OS; on the CentOS family plan a fresh Debian or Ubuntu box. One apt command brings up the free BeAdmin core — run it alongside ZesleCP and switch over only when ready.
Transfer vhost configs, databases (mysqldump) and mailboxes manually or with your own scripts. BeAdmin does not import ZesleCP backups directly — that is an honest gap, not a marketing trick.
Flip DNS when you are comfortable. If anything looks off, revert DNS to the old server — the rollback is just one record change.
Both panels are freemium, so this is not a price fight. ZesleCP’s free licence is capped at two sites; BeAdmin’s free core has no site limit. On top of that BeAdmin adds a built‑in VPN, an à‑la‑carte module catalogue and a Debian/Ubuntu base, where ZesleCP comes from the CentOS lineage. The comparison above marks the rest plainly, including where the two are simply on par.
No. ZesleCP ships no VPN, so you would set one up and maintain it yourself outside the panel. BeAdmin includes six protocols — Xray, WireGuard, OpenVPN, Outline, Amnezia and Mimicry — as modules in the same UI, each enabled with a single click.
No. The BeAdmin free core does not cap the number of sites you host. ZesleCP’s free licence is the opposite — it stops at two sites; paid tiers raise the cap to 15 (Solo) and 50 (Personal), and unlimited starts at Pro for $12/mo.
BeAdmin is Debian and Ubuntu only. ZesleCP installs on Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7, Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8; Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 and Rocky and AlmaLinux 9 are not on the list. If your fleet is standardised on Rocky or AlmaLinux 8, that is a point in ZesleCP’s favour; CentOS 7 is already end‑of‑life.
Because on four points — PostgreSQL, Docker, malware scanning/WAF and dark mode — we found neither confirmation nor denial from ZesleCP, in the changelog, the pricing or the docs. Rather than claim a win BeAdmin has not earned, we mark those rows as a draw and point you to zeslecp.com to confirm before deciding.
The panel core is free. Pay only for the modules you connect.