Whats Your Take ?
I have Used Both but I personally prefer Cpanel.
Maybe because i started with it.

For public hosting, cPanel is best. . . no question. Nothing beats it at the moment.

For private hosting you can go for plesk, directadmin or webmin.

Cpanel all the way.

i used plesk once, it made me look like a fool! the learning curve is really low, and it is rather difficult to use.

cPanel's license is too expensive, if you run a dedicated server. The VPS license is quite cheap.

Once, I got a dedicated server and the cpanel license was close to the same amount of the server lease.
Felt it was just crazy, I reinstalled the server and put DirectAdmin whose license was going for about 9 pounds. I used that for a while and it was just okay.

What deceives people in cPanel is all the "candy" it comes with. "candy" most people will never even use. That's what clients like anyway, seeing many controls on their panels. And I love the part where they then call and be like . . . "what does this thing do? what does that thing do?"

When I started commercial webhosting, I used DirectAdmin on one server and the other had plesk. Both were going good until I had to shift accounts between 2 servers. That's when I saw the good side of having cPanel running on all boxes.


Bottom line: The only reason I have seen so far to go for cPanel is the way it handles account backups and transfers. No other control panel does that better.

Cpanel, atleast that is what people want.

ServerPilot is good if you just want a free cPanel alternative for your own VPS.

https://serverpilot.io/

You can't use it to sell shared hosting, though. It doesn't work with WHMCS.