Bambu Farm Manager is Bambu Lab's own free tool for managing a fleet of Bambu printers. It's a pair of Windows programs (a Server and a Client) that run on your local network, and it's a genuinely useful, free way to watch your Bambu printers and batch-control them, especially if everything lives on one site and you never need to reach it from outside.
But "manage your printers on the LAN" and "run a print farm" aren't the same job. A farm has to keep printing when you're not standing next to it, catch failures, route work automatically, and grow. That's where a free, local, single-brand tool runs into a ceiling, and it's why plenty of all-Bambu farms still pay for SimplyPrint. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Bambu Farm Manager is free, runs entirely on your local network, and is made by Bambu for Bambu printers. If your farm is all-Bambu, everything sits on one LAN, you never need to manage it remotely, and free is the priority, it's a solid choice, and a particularly good one for schools or businesses whose IT policy forbids the cloud.
SimplyPrint is a paid cloud platform that runs your Bambu farm from any device, anywhere, with the parts a farm actually leans on: automated job dispatch, AI failure detection and bed-check, continuous (lights-out) printing, filament inventory, a maintenance system, multi-user roles and SSO, native iOS/Android apps, and nothing to host on-prem. It also runs every other printer brand, the day you add one. "Free" isn't the same as "runs your farm", which is why many all-Bambu operators choose SimplyPrint even though Bambu's tool costs nothing.
Gratuit à vie. Sans carte bancaire.
The first thing a growing farm hits with Bambu Farm Manager is the leash: it lives on one Windows PC, on one local network. SimplyPrint is a cloud platform, so the farm is wherever you are.
Both tools monitor a fleet and batch-control it. The difference is everything that happens when no one is clicking: dispatching jobs, catching failures, and tracking filament and upkeep.
Credit where it's due. For the right setup, Bambu's own free tool is genuinely the right answer, and SimplyPrint can't match it on these:
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 Bambu Farm Manager as well!
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Général | ||
| Propose un forfait gratuit | ||
| Free printers | Unlimited | 2 |
| Coût max. | Free | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Stockage cloud gratuit | 1GB | |
| Coût basé sur l’utilisation | ||
| Impression illimitée | ||
| Prend en charge toutes les imprimantes | Bambu Lab only | |
| Fonctionnalités | ||
| Accès à distance | LAN only (no native remote) | |
| Gestion du filament | ||
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Connaît votre imprimante | ||
| Fichiers cloud | ||
| File d’impression | ||
| Diffusion en direct | LAN only | |
| Analyse Gcode | ||
| Détection des échecs par IA | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / impression continue | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Historique des tâches d’impression | Live status only | |
| Imprimer à distance | ||
| Slicer intégré | ||
| Adapté au multi-imprimantes | ||
| Impression groupée | ||
| Multi-diffusion | LAN only | |
| Statistiques | ||
| API | ||
| Rotation intelligente du slicer | ||
| Changement de filament intelligent | ||
| Assistant de mise à niveau du plateau | ||
| Organisation | ||
| Plusieurs utilisateurs | ||
| Groupes d’utilisateurs / rangs | Admin / common users | |
| Permissions des utilisateurs | ||
| Forfait School | ||
| Fichiers & dossiers partagés | ||
| Profils de slicer partagés | ||
| Hub | ||
| Domaines personnalisés | ||
| SSO (authentification unique) | ||
| Notifications | ||
| Notifications par e-mail | ||
| Notifications push (mobile / application) | ||
| Notifications par SMS / message texte | ||
| Applications | ||
| Application Android | ||
| application iOS | ||
| "PWA" (application web installable) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Authentification à deux facteurs du compte | ||
| Analyses & collecte de données respectueuses de la vie privée ? | ||
| Assistance | ||
| Assistance par chat en direct | ||
| Assistance téléphonique | ||
| Assistance par e-mail | ||
| Prise en charge du firmware & de la passerelle | ||
| Installation d’OctoPrint | ||
| Prise en charge native de Moonraker | ||
| Installation de Mainsail | ||
| Installation de Fluidd | ||
| Prise en charge de Klipper | ||
| Intégration Duet3D | ||
| Prise en charge directe de Prusa (MK4, XL et plus récents / nouvelles cartes mères) | ||
| Intégration directe des imprimantes Bambu Lab | ||
| Prise en charge des intégrations personnalisées | ||
| Entreprises & partenaires | ||
| OEM | ||
| Programme partenaire (revendeur / distributeur) | ||
| Programme d’affiliation | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Yes, local Windows server | Contact us |
| Comparer | Voir les tarifs | Voir les tarifs |
Contactez-nous si vous pensez que nous avons commis une erreur dans notre comparatif !
Nous avons créé SimplyPrint parce que rien d’autre sur le marché ne correspondait vraiment à nos besoins. Nous voulions une plateforme facile à utiliser, mais disposant de toutes les fonctionnalités dont nous avions besoin. Nous voulions une plateforme riche en fonctionnalités, intuitive et simple d’utilisation, offrant une excellente expérience utilisateur et une véritable innovation dans le domaine des logiciels de gestion de l’impression 3D.
En résumé, nous pensons, humbles et impartiaux comme nous le sommes 😉, que la plateforme SimplyPrint est une excellente alternative à Bambu Farm Manager !
Commencer - gratuit à vie