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Coverage is still narrow. Live prices have been read from 1 of 129 panels (2,182 services). The rest are listed because they are real, reachable operators — not because we have seen their rates. Panels with no synced catalogue show no prices rather than an estimate. How the data is gathered.

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Child panel

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Why does child panel matter to a buyer?

Child panels are the on-ramp for the whole industry and the reason “how to start an SMM panel” is one of the highest-volume queries in the niche. For $10–$30 a month you get a working storefront, a payment page and a catalogue, with no development and no provider relationships to negotiate. What you do not get is independence: your prices are a markup on one supplier’s prices, and your uptime is that supplier’s uptime.

The trade-off is worth stating plainly. A child panel is a good way to test whether you can find customers. It is a poor place to build a business, because every structural advantage — provider redundancy, cost base, feature set, the ability to move — belongs to the parent. Operators who stay in the market usually migrate to their own panel once volume justifies the hosting cost.

How does child panel show up in a price list?

The parent sells it as a product page rather than a catalogue row: a monthly fee, a domain field, and the parent’s catalogue at a configurable markup. Free tiers exist and are usually feature-limited further.

Feature stripping is normal. Multi-currency, coupons, affiliate systems and the admin API are commonly removed on child panels, and Perfect Panel documents them as a feature-limited product line.

Think this definition is wrong?

Terminology in this market is set by the panels that use it, and it moves. If a panel uses child panel to mean something other than what is written here, send us the listing and we will either correct the definition or record the variant. The process is on the about page.