Prusa Connect is Prusa Research's own cloud for Prusa printers, and it has come a long way: it now has a free EasyPrint cloud slicer, native iOS and Android apps, real 1080p camera streaming, teams with roles, and 2FA. If your shop is 100% Prusa, it's a genuinely good, free, first-party way to run it, and it's made by the people who made your printers, hosted in the EU.
The catch is in the name: Prusa Connect. It manages Prusa hardware and nothing else, no Bambu, no Klipper, no Creality, no generic Marlin, and older Prusas need a Raspberry Pi to join. The day you add a printer from another brand, you need a platform that speaks all of them. That's SimplyPrint, and it adds the farm-grade automation, AI and shop-floor tools Prusa Connect doesn't. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Prusa Connect is the best free cloud for an all-Prusa shop. It's first-party, deeply integrated, EU/GDPR-hosted, and now ships a cloud slicer, native apps, teams and 2FA, so the old "it's missing everything" story no longer holds. If every printer you own is a Prusa and you want free and official, it's an easy yes.
SimplyPrint is the platform for everyone else, and for mixed and growing farms. It has been running real print farms since 2020, runs Prusa and Bambu, Klipper/Moonraker, Marlin (incl. USB), Duet and OctoPrint natively, and adds AI failure detection with AI bed-check, AutoPrint continuous printing, full filament inventory with NFC and label printing, a maintenance system and a dedicated education plan. If you run any non-Prusa printer, or want farm automation Prusa Connect doesn't have, SimplyPrint is the better fit.
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Prusa Connect is built for Prusa hardware, full stop. SimplyPrint runs Prusa just as happily, and every other major brand alongside it, so the platform never decides which printers you're allowed to buy next.
Prusa Connect has closed a lot of its old gaps, and for an all-Prusa shop a few things genuinely land. Credit where it's due:
Prusa Connect monitors and controls your Prusa fleet well. Where SimplyPrint pulls ahead is the production layer: keeping printers running unattended, catching failures, and tracking filament and upkeep.
Nothing is black-and-white, and there are always pros and cons to consider when choosing a 3D printing cloud solution!
And we're not here to simply tell you, that SimplyPrint is the best - we want you to make an informed decision, and of course there are pros of using Prusa Connect as well!
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| Allgemein | ||
| Hat kostenlosen Plan | ||
| Free printers | 2 | |
| Max. Kosten | Free; paid storage tiers | Free, or from $9.99/mo (Pro) |
| Kostenloser Cloud-Speicher | 1GB (expandable) | 1GB |
| Nutzungsbasierte Kosten | ||
| Unbegrenztes Drucken | ||
| Unterstützt alle Drucker | Prusa printers only | |
| Funktionen | ||
| Fernzugriff | ||
| Filamentverwaltung | Usage tracking only | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Kennt deinen Drucker | Prusa only | |
| Cloud-Dateien | ||
| Druckwarteschlange | ||
| Live-Stream | ||
| Gcode-Analyse | ||
| KI-Fehlererkennung | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / Fortlaufendes Drucken | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Print-Job-Verlauf | ||
| Aus der Ferne drucken | ||
| Integrierter Slicer | EasyPrint (cloud) | |
| Mehrere Drucker freundlich | ||
| Multiprint | ||
| Multi-Stream | ||
| Statistiken | ||
| API | Limited (camera + mobile) | |
| Slicer-Smart-Rotation | ||
| Smarter Filamentwechsel | ||
| Bettnivellierungshilfe | ||
| Organisation | ||
| Mehrere Benutzer | ||
| Nutzergruppen / Ränge | ||
| Nutzerberechtigungen | ||
| Schulplan | ||
| Geteilte Dateien & Ordner | ||
| Geteilte Slicer-Profile | ||
| Hub | ||
| Eigene Domains | ||
| SSO (Single Sign-On) | ||
| Benachrichtigungen | ||
| E-Mail-Benachrichtigungen | ||
| Push-Benachrichtigungen (mobil / App) | ||
| SMS-Benachrichtigungen | ||
| Apps | ||
| Android-App | ||
| iOS-App | ||
| "PWA" (installierbare Web-App) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung für das Konto | ||
| Privacy-minded analytics & data-gathering ? | ||
| Support | ||
| Live-Chat-Support | ||
| Telefonsupport | ||
| E-Mail-Support | ||
| Firmware- & Gateway-Unterstützung | ||
| OctoPrint-Installation | ||
| Native Moonraker-Unterstützung | ||
| Mainsail-Installation | ||
| Fluidd-Installation | ||
| Klipper-Unterstützung | ||
| Duet3D-Integration | ||
| Direkter Prusa-Support (MK4, XL und neuer / neue Mainboards) | ||
| Direkte Bambu-Lab-Druckerintegration | ||
| Unterstützung für individuelle Integrationen | ||
| Enterprise & Partner | ||
| OEM | ||
| Partnerprogramm (Wiederverkäufer/Distributor) | ||
| Affiliate-Programm | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Vergleichen | Preise ansehen | Preise ansehen |
Kontaktiere uns, wenn du glaubst, dass wir einen Fehler in unserem Vergleich gemacht haben!
Wir haben SimplyPrint entwickelt, weil nichts anderes auf dem Markt so richtig zu unseren Anforderungen passte. Wir wollten eine Plattform, die einfach zu bedienen ist, aber trotzdem alle Funktionen bietet, die wir brauchten. Wir wollten eine funktionsreiche, intuitive und einfach zu bedienende Plattform mit einer großartigen Nutzererfahrung und echter Innovation im Bereich der 3D-Druckmanagement-Software.
Abschließend glauben wir, dass die SimplyPrint-Plattform eine großartige Prusa Connect Alternative ist!
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