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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| Général | ||
| Propose un forfait gratuit | ||
| Free printers | 2 | |
| Coût max. | Free; paid storage tiers | Free, or from $9.99/mo (Pro) |
| Stockage cloud gratuit | 1GB (expandable) | 1GB |
| Coût basé sur l’utilisation | ||
| Impression illimitée | ||
| Prend en charge toutes les imprimantes | Prusa printers only | |
| Fonctionnalités | ||
| Accès à distance | ||
| Gestion du filament | Usage tracking only | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Connaît votre imprimante | Prusa only | |
| Fichiers cloud | ||
| File d’impression | ||
| Diffusion en direct | ||
| 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 | ||
| Imprimer à distance | ||
| Slicer intégré | EasyPrint (cloud) | |
| Adapté au multi-imprimantes | ||
| Impression groupée | ||
| Multi-diffusion | ||
| Statistiques | ||
| API | Limited (camera + mobile) | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 ? | 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 Prusa Connect !
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