Buying an SMM panel script vs using a platform: the real costs
A script looks cheaper on day one. Here is what it really takes to run one, compared with a managed platform, and who each option suits.
PanelHubs Team ·
The #1 best platform for creating SMM panels. Built for reliability, easy scaling and long-term growth, with local payments and support that understands your market.
All-in-one
A website under your own brand and domain where customers order in seconds, top up with local payments, follow every order and get help, on any screen.
Your control room: orders, customers, payments, providers and profit in one place, with live numbers, bulk actions and automatic refunds.
Change your site without code: move blocks, pick colours and fonts, preview on computer, tablet and phone, then publish when it is right.
Customers install your panel on their phone like an app, straight from the browser: no app store, no extra fees.
The modern alternative to other panel providers
Hosted, secured and updated for you. Plan A — up to 1,000 orders a month — $15/month
Simulation · numbers are illustrative
See it in motion
Orders, payments, refills, themes and your dashboard: all of it works together, from the first click.
Get startedServing more than 1000+ SMM panels worldwide
Using the platform, our clients have received
15 581 296 086
orders in total.
Start your panelHow it works
No servers, no developers, no scripts to install. Your panel runs on our infrastructure and updates itself.
Sign up, choose your plan and point your own domain's nameservers to us. The moment DNS reaches us, your panel is created, HTTPS is issued, and you can import services from any provider with your markup.
$ nameservers yourbrand.com
→ ns1.panelhubs.com
→ ns2.panelhubs.com
✓ DNS points to PanelHubs
✓ Panel created · yourbrand.com
✓ HTTPS certificate issued
$ import --provider=main --markup=40%
✓ 1,284 services imported
Customers see prices in their own currency and pay with what they already use — M-Pesa, MoMo, Paystack, Flutterwave, cards or crypto. Orders go to your provider the moment they're paid, and your panel installs like an app on their phone.
New order
Top up with
Give other resellers your standard SMM API v2, sell child panels every month, let affiliates bring in buyers, and read detailed reports with charts to see your best services and customers.
curl https://yourbrand.com/api/v2 \
-d key=YOUR_API_KEY \
-d action=add \
-d service=1024 \
-d link=https://instagram.com/yourbrand \
-d quantity=1000
# response
{ "order": 48213 }
# action=status&order=48213
{ "status": "Completed", "remains": "0" }
Everything included
Every plan gets every feature. You only move up a plan when your order volume grows.
110 features in 13 categories, and new ones arrive all the time.
No feature matches “”. Try another word.
Peace of mind
Self-hosted panel scripts break, get hacked and need updating. PanelHubs is hosted and looked after for you, so you can spend your time selling.
All systems normal
yourbrand.com · statusDay 32: provider timed out — backup provider took over, no orders lost
Handled for you
Illustrative status panel
The opportunity
Businesses, artists and influencers buy social reach every day — usually from a local panel they trust. Here is how panel owners realistically get there.
Small businesses, artists and influencers in your city buy followers, views and likes from a panel they trust — in their currency, with M-Pesa, MoMo or cards.
You buy from the provider at wholesale and sell at your price. A 40% margin means you keep 80 cents of every $2 order.
Social growth is a habit: the same customers top up weekly, and subscriptions (auto-likes) bill on every new post.
Other panels and agencies plug into your API v2 and send you volume every day — orders you never had to sell.
Resellers rent child panels that buy from you. Ten child panels is recurring income before a single order.
Monthly profit of a growing panel
Illustration, not a promise
Month 12 · $3,400
Side hustle
$312/month
13 orders a day × $2 average × 40% margin
Growing panel
$1,440/month
60 orders a day × $2 average × 40% margin
Established brand
$5,040/month
210 orders a day × $2 average × 40% margin
Worked example · illustration, not a promise
40% margin means you buy 1,000 followers from your provider at $1.20 and sell them at $2. Real results depend on your market, prices and marketing, and exclude payment gateway fees.
Move the sliders to estimate your own month.
Estimated monthly profit
$3,570
Estimate only, before payment gateway fees. Not a promise of earnings.
Why switch
Compatible with other panel providers where it matters, and better where it counts.
| Feature | PanelHubs | Typical panel software |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | From $15/mo | Higher monthly fees |
| African mobile money and worldwide payments (M-Pesa, MoMo, Paystack, Flutterwave, cards, PayPal, crypto…) | Yes | Limited or extra work |
| Customers pay in their own currency (150 currencies) | Yes | Varies |
| Failed orders resent automatically after you top up | Yes | Manual |
| Partial & canceled orders refunded automatically | Yes | Often manual |
| Themes & API v2 compatible with other panel providers | Yes | Yes |
| No admin balance editing, no account impersonation | Yes | Not usually |
| Arabic RTL, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Turkish, Russian and Korean for your customers | Yes | Varies |
Pricing
One monthly price for the panel, set by how many orders you handle. No per-order fees, every feature on every plan.
Up to 1,000 orders a month
$15 / month
0 – 1,000 orders / month
1,001 – 5,000 orders / month
$30 / month
1,001 – 5,000 orders / month
5,001 – 15,000 orders / month
$45 / month
5,001 – 15,000 orders / month
15,001 – 50,000 orders / month
$55 / month
15,001 – 50,000 orders / month
50,001 – 100,000 orders / month
$65 / month
50,001 – 100,000 orders / month
100,001 – 200,000 orders / month
$75 / month
100,001 – 200,000 orders / month
200,001 – 400,000 orders / month
$100 / month
200,001 – 400,000 orders / month
Pay in your currency. Paystack and Flutterwave across Africa — cards, bank and mobile money — and cards, PayPal and crypto for the rest of the world.
Card in USD elsewhere. Simple monthly invoice everywhere else in the world.
Plan follows your volume. Your plan each month is set by your order count. No per-order fees.
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FAQ
No. Instead the entry plan is cheap: Plan A covers up to 1,000 orders a month for $15 a month (shown in your currency above). Every feature is included on every plan, and you only move up when your order volume grows.
No. Every panel starts on a free panelhubs.online address the moment you create it. When you want your own domain, buy one from any registrar and point its nameservers to the ones we give you: your panel moves over and HTTPS is issued automatically, usually within an hour.
Monthly invoices in your own currency: Paystack or Flutterwave across Africa (cards, bank transfer, mobile money), and cards or other worldwide methods everywhere else. Your plan each month is set by how many orders you handled.
Through your own payment accounts — Paystack, Flutterwave, Korapay, M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Chapa, CinetPay, Stripe, PayPal, Perfect Money, Payeer, crypto (Binance Pay, NOWPayments, Cryptomus) or bank transfer with receipt upload. Money goes straight to you; we take no cut.
Nothing is lost. If you added a backup provider, the order goes there automatically. Otherwise it is kept in the Fail tab with the provider's exact reason, you get an email or Telegram alert, and as soon as you top up that provider the failed orders are resent on their own.
Yes. Themes use the same Twig format as other panel providers and your panel exposes the same API v2, so your design carries over and your API resellers only change the URL. Import your services from your providers with your markup in a few minutes.
No. There is no script to download, no server to rent and nothing to update. We host it, update it, back it up every night and keep it behind Cloudflare. You run your business.
No: it is built for Africa and the world. African resellers get mobile money, local currencies and French, Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili; everyone else gets worldwide payment methods, 147 currencies and the same panel, wherever they are.
Bring a domain, connect a provider and let the order engine do the rest. Plan A starts at $15/month.