OctoFarm was the open-source way to run a print farm built on OctoPrint: one dashboard pulling many OctoPrint instances into a single view, with filament tracking, job history and multi-camera monitoring. It was a genuinely useful, much-loved community tool, and if you self-host it on an all-OctoPrint fleet, it still works.
The catch is that it has wound down. Its last stable release was October 2022, and in 2023 the lead maintainer opened an issue asking for new maintainers. SimplyPrint has been running print farms since 2020 and is the maintained, cloud-native platform farms move to: every major printer brand connects directly (no OctoPrint required), with a print queue, AutoPrint, AI failure detection, a full cloud slicer, filament and maintenance tools, native apps and SSO. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
OctoFarm was the go-to open-source dashboard for stitching many OctoPrint instances into one print-farm view. It's free, self-hosted and was genuinely useful, but development has stalled: its last stable release was October 2022, the project publicly asked for new maintainers in 2023, and the original website no longer resolves to the project. If you're running a farm on it today, you're running it on unmaintained software, and that's the honest reason most farms eventually move on.
SimplyPrint is a maintained, cloud-native farm platform that has been running print farms since 2020. It manages OctoPrint just like OctoFarm did, and also talks to Bambu, Klipper/Moonraker, Prusa, Marlin (incl. USB) and Duet directly, with no OctoPrint required. On top of monitoring it ships a print queue with staggered start, AutoPrint for continuous lights-out printing, AI failure detection and AI bed-check, a full interactive cloud slicer, filament inventory with NFC and label printing, a maintenance system, native iOS and Android apps, SSO and 2FA, all actively developed and supported. If OctoFarm got your farm started, SimplyPrint is the maintained successor it can grow into.
A print farm runs on its software the way a workshop runs on its machines: it has to keep working, get patched, and have someone home when something breaks. OctoFarm's last stable release was in October 2022, and the project has openly asked for new maintainers. We say this respectfully, it was a beloved community tool, but it's the fact that matters most when you're choosing what to run a business on. SimplyPrint ships updates continuously and has supported real farms since 2020.
OctoFarm is a layer on top of OctoPrint: it has no printer connection of its own, so every machine in your farm must already be running its own OctoPrint instance (typically a Raspberry Pi per printer). SimplyPrint connects to most printers directly, OctoPrint included, so there's no per-printer middleware to build and babysit.
OctoFarm is monitoring and management: dashboards, history and webcam feeds. That's useful, but a busy farm also needs to keep printers fed, catch failures and be reachable from anywhere. This is the breadth OctoFarm never set out to cover.
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 OctoFarm as well!
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| Ogólne | ||
| Ma darmowy plan | ||
| Free printers | Unlimited | 2 |
| Maks. koszt | Cost of self-hosting | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Darmowa przestrzeń w chmurze | Local storage | 1GB |
| Koszt zależny od użycia | ||
| Nielimitowane drukowanie | ||
| Aktywny rozwój | ||
| Obsługuje wszystkie drukarki | OctoPrint instances only | |
| Funkcje | ||
| Zdalny dostęp | VPN / port forward | |
| Zarządzanie filamentem | ||
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Znajomość drukarki | ||
| Pliki w chmurze | ||
| Kolejka wydruku | ||
| Transmisja na żywo | ||
| Analiza Gcode | ||
| Wykrywanie błędów przez AI | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / druk ciągły | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Historia zadań druku | ||
| Drukuj zdalnie | VPN / port forward | |
| Wbudowany slicer | ||
| Przyjazne dla wielu drukarek | ||
| Druk zbiorczy | ||
| Wiele strumieni | ||
| Statystyki | ||
| API | ||
| Inteligentny obrót slicera | ||
| Inteligentna zmiana filamentu | ||
| Asystent poziomowania stołu | ||
| Organizacja | ||
| Wielu użytkowników | ||
| Grupy użytkowników / rangi | ||
| Uprawnienia użytkownika | ||
| Plan School | ||
| Udostępnione pliki i foldery | ||
| Udostępnione profile slicera | ||
| Hub | ||
| Własne domeny | ||
| SSO (logowanie jednokrotne) | ||
| Powiadomienia | ||
| Powiadomienia e-mail | ||
| Powiadomienia push (mobilne / w aplikacji) | ||
| Powiadomienia SMS / tekstowe | ||
| Aplikacje | ||
| Aplikacja na Androida | ||
| aplikacja iOS | ||
| „PWA” (instalowalna aplikacja internetowa) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Uwierzytelnianie dwuskładnikowe konta | ||
| Analityka & zbieranie danych z dbałością o prywatność ? | ||
| Wsparcie | ||
| Wsparcie przez czat na żywo | ||
| Wsparcie telefoniczne | ||
| Wsparcie e-mail | ||
| Obsługa firmware & bramek | ||
| Instalacja OctoPrint | ||
| Natywna obsługa Moonrakera | ||
| Instalacja Mainsail | ||
| Instalacja Fluidd | ||
| Obsługa Klipper | Only via OctoPrint | |
| Integracja Duet3D | ||
| Bezpośrednia obsługa Prusa (MK4, XL i nowsze / nowe płyty główne) | ||
| Direct Creality integration (modern printers) ? | ||
| Direct Anycubic integration (modern printers) | ||
| Bezpośrednia integracja z drukarkami Bambu Lab | ||
| Obsługa niestandardowych integracji | ||
| Enterprise & partnerzy | ||
| OEM | ||
| Program partnerski (reseller / dystrybutor) | ||
| Program partnerski | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
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SimplyPrint powstał, ponieważ nic innego na rynku w pełni nie odpowiadało naszym potrzebom. Zależało nam na platformie łatwej w obsłudze, a mimo to oferującej wszystkie potrzebne funkcje. Chcieliśmy bogatej w funkcje platformy, intuicyjnej i prostej w obsłudze, zapewniającej świetne wrażenia użytkownika oraz realną innowację w obszarze oprogramowania do zarządzania drukiem 3D.
Podsumowując, naszym skromnym i całkowicie obiektywnym zdaniem 😉 platforma SimplyPrint to świetna alternatywa dla OctoFarm!
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