BuildBee is an easy, all-in-one 3D printing app built for the beginner classroom, and for a single teacher with a couple of older USB or OctoPrint printers its guided, jargon-free on-ramp is genuinely pleasant. The workflow is jargon-free and guided, there are built-in design tools for STEM (image-to-3D, lithophanes, BuildBee MakeCode), and it's simple enough for a teacher to run without involving IT. For a school with a handful of older USB or OctoPrint printers, that on-ramp is hard to beat.
But that simplicity comes with a ceiling. BuildBee's printer list is legacy FDM and resin machines, no Bambu Lab and no Klipper, it's single-user unless you pay per printer, there's no AI failure detection and no continuous-printing automation, and its iOS "app" is a home-screen web shortcut. For a print farm, or a modern fleet, SimplyPrint runs the printers BuildBee can't and automates the work it leaves manual. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
SimplyPrint is the better fit for a print farm or any modern fleet, and it's a serious schools platform in its own right, built around real print farms since 2020. It natively runs the printers BuildBee can't (Bambu, Klipper/Moonraker, Prusa, Duet), adds AI failure detection with AutoPrint continuous printing, filament inventory with NFC, a maintenance system, multi-user roles with SSO and native iOS and Android apps, and ships a dedicated education plan with classes and teachers, an Academy for courses and assignments, quotas and district SSO, so a school never has to trade depth for ease of use.
BuildBee is a friendly on-ramp for a single teacher with one or two older USB or OctoPrint printers, and that simplicity is the whole product. Beyond one classroom (Bambu or Klipper machines, multiple teachers, automation, native apps) it runs out of room.
Gratis para siempre. Sin tarjeta de crédito.
BuildBee's printer support is built around older USB and OctoPrint machines. SimplyPrint speaks the printers people actually buy today, natively.
For a beginner classroom, BuildBee's whole design is the strength, and SimplyPrint is honest about it:
BuildBee shows a live stream and a pre-print checklist. SimplyPrint adds the parts that keep a fleet running, and real apps for the people running it.
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 BuildBee as well!
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| General | ||
| Tiene plan gratuito | ||
| Free printers | 1 | 2 |
| Almacenamiento en la nube gratuito | 5 models | 1GB |
| Coste basado en el uso | ||
| Impresión ilimitada | Paid plans (free = 5 slices/mo) | |
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Per-printer (Education) | Flat Education plan + per-printer |
| Price per printer | $15/printer/mo ($180/yr), flat | ~$240 to $132/printer/yr ($20-11/mo) |
| Fair Billing (only pay for printers & seats you use) ? | ||
| Volume pricing (per-printer cost drops at scale) ? | ||
| Es compatible con todas las impresoras | Legacy USB/OctoPrint printers | |
| Funciones | ||
| Acceso remoto | ||
| Gestión de filamento | Usage/cost dashboards | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Conoce tu impresora | ||
| Archivos en la nube | ||
| Cola de impresión | ||
| Transmisión en vivo | ||
| Análisis de Gcode | ||
| Detección de fallos con IA | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / impresión continua | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Historial de trabajos de impresión | ||
| Imprime de forma remota | ||
| Slicer integrado | Free: 5 slices/mo | |
| Apto para varias impresoras | ||
| Multi-impresión | ||
| Multi-transmisión | ||
| Estadísticas | ||
| API | ||
| Rotación inteligente del slicer | ||
| Cambio inteligente de filamento | ||
| Ayudante de nivelación de cama | ||
| Organización | ||
| Varios usuarios | Paid tier | |
| Grupos de usuario / rangos | Paid tier | |
| Permisos de usuario | Paid tier | |
| Plan para escuelas | ||
| Archivos & carpetas compartidos | ||
| Perfiles de slicer compartidos | ||
| Hub | ||
| Dominios personalizados | ||
| SSO (inicio de sesión único) | ||
| Notificaciones | ||
| Notificaciones por correo electrónico | ||
| Notificaciones push (móvil / app) | ||
| Notificaciones por SMS / mensaje de texto | ||
| Apps | ||
| App de Android | ||
| app de iOS | ||
| "PWA" (aplicación web instalable) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Autenticación de dos factores de la cuenta | ||
| Análisis & recopilación de datos centrados en la privacidad ? | ||
| Soporte | ||
| Soporte por chat en vivo | ||
| Soporte telefónico | ||
| Soporte por correo electrónico | ||
| Compatibilidad con firmware & gateways | ||
| Instalación de OctoPrint | Connect via plugin | |
| Compatibilidad nativa con Moonraker | ||
| Instalación de Mainsail | ||
| Instalación de Fluidd | ||
| Compatibilidad con Klipper | ||
| Integración con Duet3D | ||
| Compatibilidad directa con Prusa (MK4, XL y superiores / placas base nuevas) | ||
| Integración directa con impresoras Bambu Lab | ||
| Compatibilidad con integraciones personalizadas | ||
| Enterprise & partners | ||
| OEM | ||
| Programa de partners (revendedor/distribuidor) | ||
| Programa de afiliados | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Comparar | Ver precios | Ver precios |
¡Contáctanos si crees que nos hemos equivocado en nuestra comparación!
Creamos SimplyPrint porque nada más en el mercado se ajustaba del todo a nuestras necesidades. Queríamos una plataforma fácil de usar, pero que tuviera todas las funciones que necesitábamos. Queríamos una plataforma rica en funciones, intuitiva y fácil de usar, con una gran experiencia de usuario y una innovación real dentro del sector del software de gestión de impresión 3D.
En resumen, creemos, humildes e imparciales como somos 😉, que la plataforma SimplyPrint es una gran alternativa a BuildBee.
Empezar, gratis para siempre