Every Blesta licence price as published on 2 November 2026, monthly, owned and lifetime, plus add-ons, paid services, what each option costs over three and five years, and how it compares with WHMCS.
Mario Marin8 min readBlesta pricing on 2 November 2026: monthly licences cost $17.95, $20.95 or $23.95 a month with support and updates included; owned licences cost $350, $425 or $500 once, with one year of updates and then $62 a year; lifetime licences cost $1,295 or $1,495. Every Blesta licence covers unlimited clients and staff.
How this was sourced. FluxBilling publishes this page and sells billing software for hosting providers, so it competes with Blesta and WHMCS. Every Blesta and WHMCS price below was read on the vendor’s own pricing page on 2 November 2026, in US dollars and excluding tax as published; no exchange rate is applied. Multi-year totals are our arithmetic on those list prices, shown so you can check them.
Blesta sells one product with no feature tiers. You choose how to pay (monthly or once) and how the licence behaves: Branded keeps a small “Powered by Blesta” footer link, Unbranded removes it, and Flex also removes the lock to a single IP address, which matters on cloud servers and containers whose address changes.
| Licence | Price (read 2 Nov 2026) | Support and updates | Branding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Branded | $17.95/month | Included while you pay | Footer link |
| Monthly Unbranded | $20.95/month | Included while you pay | Removable |
| Monthly Flex | $23.95/month | Included while you pay | Removable; not IP-locked |
| Owned Branded | $350 once | 1 year, then $62/year optional | Footer link |
| Owned Unbranded | $425 once | 1 year, then $62/year optional | Removable |
| Owned Flex | $500 once | 1 year, then $62/year optional | Removable; not IP-locked |
| Owned Lifetime | $1,295 once | Updates forever, support for 3 years | Removable |
| Owned Lifetime Flex | $1,495 once | Updates forever, support for 3 years | Removable; not IP-locked |
Every licence includes every feature, unlimited clients and staff, all modules and gateways, access to beta releases and the right to re-issue the licence. Owned licences also come with a free developer licence. An owned licence never expires: if you stop paying the $62 renewal, Blesta keeps working on the version you have; you just stop receiving new versions and support.
Blesta is self-hosted, so the server it runs on is a separate cost. It offers a 30-day trial that needs no account or card, and the current download on the pricing page was version 6.0.4.
The licence is most of the bill, but three add-ons and four paid services are listed on the same page.
| Item | Price (read 2 Nov 2026) | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Addon company | $5/month on monthly licences, $95 once on owned | Another company in the same installation, with its own brand, clients and packages |
| Blesta AI | $5.95/month | Drafted ticket replies, content generation, staff chatbot |
| Blesta AI Pro | $14.95/month | Same features with more credits |
| Installation | $35 | Blesta installs it on your server |
| Upgrade | $45 | Upgrade of an existing installation |
| Configuration | $125 | Gateways, modules and automation set up with you |
| Migration | From $200 ($750 for large or complex data) | Clients, services and invoices, typically from WHMCS |
The addon company is the one to watch if you run several brands. Over three years it costs $180 on a monthly licence and $95 on an owned one.
The headline prices hide when each option becomes the cheaper one. The table adds up licence costs only, assuming you renew owned support every year so you stay on current versions.
| Licence | 3 years | 5 years |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Branded | $646.20 | $1,077.00 |
| Monthly Unbranded | $754.20 | $1,257.00 |
| Monthly Flex | $862.20 | $1,437.00 |
| Owned Branded + renewals | $474 | $598 |
| Owned Unbranded + renewals | $549 | $673 |
| Owned Flex + renewals | $624 | $748 |
| Owned Lifetime | $1,295 | $1,295 |
| Owned Lifetime Flex | $1,495 | $1,495 |
Three points stand out:
Blesta is a PHP and MySQL application you host yourself, so budget for a server, backups and the hours spent applying updates. If you would rather not do the work in-house, Blesta’s own installation service is $35, configuration $125 and a standard migration $200.
A worked example with two brands: Owned Unbranded with two renewals ($549) plus one addon company ($95) comes to $644 over three years. The same setup on Monthly Unbranded is $754.20 plus $180, or $934.20. Payment gateway fees apply whatever billing system you choose, so they do not change the comparison.
The general case for owned versus subscription licences is covered in perpetual licence vs monthly subscription.
Blesta’s strengths are clear: one flat price for unlimited clients, no feature gates, a licence you can own outright, and a large set of modules and gateways included. Its scope is billing, client management and support; providers who also run racks and IP space add separate DCIM software, which our guide to DCIM tools describes.
The two price on different meters. Blesta charges a flat licence for unlimited clients. WHMCS charges by active clients, counting any client with at least one active product, service, addon or domain.
| Active clients | Blesta Monthly Branded, 3 years | WHMCS self-hosted, 3 years |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 250 | $646.20 | $1,258.20 (Plus, $34.95/month) |
| Up to 500 | $646.20 | $1,978.20 (Professional, $54.95/month) |
| Up to 1,000 | $646.20 | $3,058.20 (Business, $84.95/month) |
WHMCS also sells a fully managed WHMCS Cloud: Starter at $9.99 a month for 25 clients ($0.40 per extra client), Growth at $25 for 100 and Expansion at $75 for 300 ($0.25 per extra client on both). Cloud runs pre-approved modules from WHMCS’s curated marketplace, so check that the modules you need are available. Blesta’s pricing page lists self-hosted licences only.
WHMCS’s case is its ecosystem: its pricing page cites more than 500 integrations. Detailed comparisons: WHMCS vs Blesta, WHMCS pricing and price increases, Blesta vs Clientexec and Blesta vs HostBill.
Blesta is hard to beat on price for billing alone. An alternative earns a look when you need something Blesta does not set out to do: a managed service so you do not run the billing server yourself, or DCIM and IPAM in the same system as the invoices for dedicated servers, colocation or VPS.
FluxBilling is one such alternative. It is a subscription, managed on its Lite, Starter and Professional tiers, with self-hosting available only on Business for a one-time €50. Prices are monthly and exclude VAT:
| FluxBilling plan | Per month (EUR / USD) | Clients | Bare-metal servers | 3 years (EUR / USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | €14.99 / $17.99 | 250 | 50 | €539.64 / $647.64 |
| Business | €25 / $29 | Unlimited | 75 | €900 / $1,044 |
Smaller plans start at €4.95 a month for 10 clients. DCIM and IPAM are included on every plan. There is no owned or lifetime licence, so if owning the software outright matters most, Blesta is the better fit.
For providers moving across, FluxBilling has a Blesta importer that reads the Blesta database directly and brings over clients, categories, products, services, invoices, payments and credit balances; running it twice creates nothing new. It does not import staff, extra contacts, tickets, saved cards, coupons or configurable-option definitions, and passwords cannot be carried over, so clients set a new one after import. The Blesta alternative page sets out the full comparison.
It can be. Owned licences cost $350, $425 or $500 once and never expire; they include one year of support and updates, then $62 a year if you want to keep receiving new versions. Lifetime licences at $1,295 or $1,495 include updates forever.
No. Every Blesta licence, monthly or owned, covers unlimited clients and staff. Only the addon company option adds cost as you grow, at $5 a month or $95 once per extra company.
On the self-hosted list prices read on 2 November 2026, yes at every client count shown: Blesta Monthly Branded is $17.95 a month for unlimited clients, while WHMCS self-hosted runs from $34.95 a month for 250 active clients to $84.95 for 1,000.
Branded shows a small “Powered by Blesta” footer link; Unbranded lets you remove it. Flex also removes the lock to one IP address, for installs whose address changes.
It depends on what is missing. WHMCS has a large module ecosystem; FluxBilling adds DCIM, IPAM and a managed option. See the FluxBilling vs Blesta comparison or our pricing page.
Sources, read 2 November 2026: blesta.com/pricing; whmcs.com/pricing (self-hosted and fully managed). Blesta, WHMCS, WHMCS Cloud, Clientexec and HostBill are trademarks of their respective owners. FluxBilling is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Prices are as published on that date and may have changed since.
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