Printerhive is a young, EU-built cloud tool for managing a fleet of 3D printers from one dashboard. It started life as one of the first ways to fully control Bambu Lab printers remotely, and it has grown a genuinely nice commerce angle on top: an embeddable quote calculator for your website and live order import from Shopify, WooCommerce and Upgates. For a small, mostly-Bambu farm that sells custom prints, it's a tidy, well-focused option, and we mean that.
But "manage your printers" and "run a print farm at scale" aren't the same job. A farm has to run whatever printers you already own, catch failures, keep printing unattended, and stay affordable as it grows past a couple of dozen machines. That's the ground SimplyPrint has been built on since 2020, across every major printer brand. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Printerhive is a young (founded 2024), EU-based cloud tool whose standout strengths are an embeddable customer quote calculator and live Shopify / WooCommerce / Upgates order import. If you run a small, mostly-Bambu (or Klipper) farm that sells custom prints, stay under ~30 printers, it's a smart, honest little platform whose quote calculator and shop-order import genuinely stand out.
SimplyPrint is a farm-grade management platform that's been running print farms since 2020. It runs Bambu brilliantly, and Klipper, Prusa (fully), Marlin, Duet and OctoPrint natively too, and ships AI failure detection and AI bed-check, a full interactive cloud slicer with 7 engines, unlimited continuous printing (AutoPrint), built-in filament inventory with NFC, a maintenance system, native iOS/Android apps, enterprise SSO and an Education plan, all today. Pricing scales with volume discounts and Fair Billing well past Printerhive's 30-printer ceiling. Both are EU and GDPR-compliant, so that's a wash; the difference is breadth, depth and how far it scales.
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The first thing a farm checks is what it can actually plug in. Printerhive is Bambu-first, with full Klipper and only basic Prusa, and every printer connects through a Raspberry Pi client you run on the network. SimplyPrint runs every major brand natively, and has since 2020.
Printerhive looks cheap at a glance, but the features a farm actually runs on, multi-printer printing, auto-assign, filament tracking and the API, are all locked to its €50 Professional tier. SimplyPrint includes them far lower, and scales with volume discounts and Fair Billing instead of hitting a wall. Here's the honest math.
Figures compare SimplyPrint's plans and are indicative as of June 2026; check each provider's current pricing page for exact numbers.
We respect what two founders have built quickly. For the right setup, Printerhive is a genuinely smart choice, and there are things it does that SimplyPrint doesn't (yet):
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 Printerhive as well!
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| Geral | ||
| Tem plano gratuito | ||
| Free printers | 2 | 2 |
| Armazenamento em nuvem gratuito | 0.5GB | 1GB |
| Custo baseado no uso | ||
| Impressão ilimitada | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Fixed tiers (printer/user caps) | Flat plan + per-printer |
| Price per printer | Bracketed tiers; no per-printer add-on | From $4 to ~$3/mo at scale |
| Fair Billing (only pay for printers & seats you use) ? | ||
| Volume pricing (per-printer cost drops at scale) ? | ||
| É compatível com todas as impressoras | Bambu, Klipper, basic Prusa only | |
| Recursos | ||
| Acesso remoto | ||
| Gestão de filamento | Yes (Professional+) | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | QR labels | |
| Conhece sua impressora | ||
| Arquivos na nuvem | ||
| Fila de impressão | ||
| Transmissão ao vivo | ||
| Análise de Gcode | Plate info only | |
| Detecção de falhas com IA | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / impressão contínua | Bambu A1 Mini Swap Mod only | |
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Histórico de trabalhos de impressão | ||
| Imprima remotamente | ||
| Slicer integrado | Headless only (no editor) | |
| Adequado para várias impressoras | ||
| Multi-impressão | Yes (Professional+) | |
| Multi-transmissão | ||
| Estatísticas | ||
| API | Read-only (Pro), read-write (Business) | |
| Rotação inteligente do slicer | ||
| Troca inteligente de filamento | ||
| Assistente de nivelamento de mesa | ||
| Organização | ||
| Vários usuários | Up to 4 users | |
| Grupos de usuário / níveis | ||
| Permissões do usuário | Basic (Professional+) | |
| Plano para escolas | ||
| Arquivos & pastas compartilhados | ||
| Perfis de slicer compartilhados | ||
| Hub | ||
| Domínios personalizados | ||
| SSO (login único) | Google / Apple login only | |
| Notificações | ||
| Notificações por e-mail | ||
| Notificações push (celular / app) | ||
| Notificações por SMS / mensagem de texto | ||
| Apps | ||
| Aplicativo Android | ||
| app para iOS | ||
| "PWA" (aplicativo web instalável) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Autenticação de dois fatores da conta | ||
| Análise e coleta de dados focadas em privacidade ? | ||
| Suporte | ||
| Suporte por chat ao vivo | Paid plans (Hobby+) | |
| Suporte por telefone | ||
| Suporte por e-mail | ||
| Firmware & compatibilidade com gateway | ||
| Instalação do OctoPrint | ||
| Suporte nativo ao Moonraker | ||
| Instalação do Mainsail | ||
| Instalação do Fluidd | ||
| Compatibilidade com Klipper | ||
| Integração com Duet3D | ||
| Suporte direto à Prusa (MK4, XL e superiores / placas principais novas) | Basic (PrusaLink) | |
| Integração direta com impressoras Bambu Lab | ||
| Compatibilidade com integrações personalizadas | ||
| Enterprise e parceiros | ||
| OEM | ||
| Programa de parceiros (revendedor/distribuidor) | ||
| Programa de afiliados | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Selling & custom products | ||
| Automated Etsy / Shopify order-to-print ? | Shopify, WooCommerce, Upgates | Closed beta: coming soon |
| Comparar | Ver preços | Ver preços |
Fale conosco se achar que cometemos um erro na nossa comparação!
Criamos o SimplyPrint porque nada mais no mercado atendia bem às nossas necessidades. Queríamos uma plataforma fácil de usar, mas que ainda tivesse todos os recursos de que precisávamos. Queríamos uma plataforma rica em recursos, intuitiva e fácil de usar, com uma ótima experiência de usuário e inovação de verdade no espaço de software de gestão de impressão 3D.
Em resumo, nós, humildes e imparciais como somos 😉, acreditamos que a plataforma SimplyPrint é uma ótima alternativa ao Printerhive!
Começar, grátis para sempre