Creality Cloud is a free, all-in-one app with a huge model marketplace and maker community, plus cloud monitoring and remote control for Creality printers. For a hobbyist with one or two Creality machines, it's genuinely good: free, polished native apps, a big library of models to print, in-app cloud slicing, and tight integration with Creality's own hardware.
What it isn't is print-farm or classroom software. There's no real farm queue or continuous-printing automation, no team roles or SSO, no filament inventory or maintenance system, it's Creality-centric (other brands only via an OctoPrint plugin), and it's a Chinese-owned platform with no EU data-residency option. For a farm or a lab, or anyone who wants their data in-region, that's where SimplyPrint comes in. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Creality Cloud is a free community and remote-control app for Creality owners: a big model marketplace, free cloud monitoring (Premium is $7.99/mo, and bundled with some new Creality machines), in-app slicing and tight Creality hardware integration. If you have a Creality printer and want free monitoring plus models, it's a great hobbyist pick. (Just after the slicer? See our Creality Print alternative page, run the real CrealityPrint engine online, on any device.)
SimplyPrint is print-farm and classroom management that runs any brand. It adds a real print queue, AutoPrint continuous printing, AI failure detection, filament inventory with NFC, a maintenance system, multi-user roles with SSO and a school plan, and it natively runs Bambu, Klipper/Moonraker, Prusa, Marlin, Duet and OctoPrint, with EU + US data centres so you can keep data in-region. For a production fleet, that's the difference.
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Creality Cloud lets you watch and control a few printers from your phone. SimplyPrint is built to actually run a fleet.
For a Creality hobbyist, Creality Cloud has genuine strengths, and SimplyPrint is honest about them:
Creality Cloud is Creality-centric, single-account, and Chinese-owned. SimplyPrint is brand-agnostic, team-ready, and lets you choose your region.
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 Creality Cloud as well!
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| Général | ||
| Propose un forfait gratuit | ||
| Free printers | 2 | |
| Coût max. | $7.99/mo (or $79.99/yr) | Free, or from $9.99/mo (Pro) |
| Stockage cloud gratuit | 2GB | 1GB |
| Coût basé sur l’utilisation | ||
| Impression illimitée | ||
| Prend en charge toutes les imprimantes | Creality (others via OctoPrint plugin) | |
| Fonctionnalités | ||
| Accès à distance | ||
| Gestion du filament | Multi-colour assignment only | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Connaît votre imprimante | Creality printers | |
| Fichiers cloud | ||
| File d’impression | ||
| Diffusion en direct | ||
| Analyse Gcode | ||
| Détection des échecs par IA | Creality printers only | |
| 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 | ||
| Imprimer à distance | ||
| Slicer intégré | ||
| Adapté au multi-imprimantes | ||
| Impression groupée | ||
| Multi-diffusion | ||
| Statistiques | ||
| API | ||
| Rotation intelligente du slicer | ||
| Changement de filament intelligent | ||
| Assistant de mise à niveau du plateau | ||
| Organisation | ||
| Plusieurs utilisateurs | ||
| Groupes d’utilisateurs / rangs | ||
| 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 | Connect via plugin | |
| Prise en charge native de Moonraker | ||
| Installation de Mainsail | ||
| Installation de Fluidd | ||
| Prise en charge de Klipper | Creality K-series only | |
| Intégration Duet3D | ||
| Prise en charge directe de Prusa (MK4, XL et plus récents / nouvelles cartes mères) | ||
| Direct Creality integration (modern printers) ? | ||
| 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 ? | 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 Creality Cloud !
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