3D Filament Profiles is a genuinely impressive thing: a huge, free, community-built filament catalogue, self-branded the world's largest, plus a personal spool inventory, HueForge-focused colour tooling and a deep hardware reference. If you want the biggest browsable list of filaments to look things up in, and you're happy to keep your own inventory by hand, it's a great free resource.
But it doesn't touch your printer. To keep a spool accurate you weigh it or log each print yourself, every time. SimplyPrint's filament manager works the other way around: it's connected to your printers, reads the G-code of every print, and deducts filament from the assigned spool on its own, with no weighing and no manual subtracting. Here's a fair, side-by-side look, first purely as a filament manager, then as the whole platform.
Automatic usage tracking, NFC across every standard, Bambu & Creality AMS auto-import, direct Dymo & Zebra label printing, drying, storage locations, a mobile app and the Open Filament Database. See it all, with screenshots, on one page.
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Compare 3D Filament Profiles vs SimplyPrint:
3D Filament Profiles is a free, community-driven filament catalogue and a manual personal inventory, with strong HueForge colour tooling and a broad hardware reference. It's a fine fit if you mainly want a place to browse filaments and keep your own spool list by hand, and you don't need your tool to talk to the printer.
SimplyPrint is a connected filament manager: it reads the G-code of every print and deducts filament automatically, so there's nothing to weigh or subtract, across any printer brand. It adds native NFC read and write, Bambu and Creality AMS auto-import, native iOS and Android apps, direct Dymo and Zebra label printing, and the open, MIT-licensed Open Filament Database (151 brands), which you can download, embed and edit in the browser. And the filament manager is free on every plan. If you want the biggest catalogue to browse and don't mind logging usage yourself, that's 3D Filament Profiles; if you want tracking that just happens off your printer, that's SimplyPrint.
Comparing purely as a filament manager, the deep, head-to-head view.
This is the heart of it. 3D Filament Profiles doesn't connect to your printers, so keeping a spool accurate means weighing it or logging each print yourself. SimplyPrint is connected to them, so your inventory stays right on its own.
Credit where it's due: 3D Filament Profiles has a far larger filament catalogue than we do, and it grows daily. Our database is a different proposition: smaller, but genuinely open, downloadable and wired into tracking.
It's a well-made, genuinely useful resource, and for some people it's the right call. Credit where it's due:
3D Filament Profiles does two jobs, a filament catalogue and a manual inventory, and does the catalogue part very well. SimplyPrint includes a connected filament manager and surrounds it with the rest of a print operation: a print queue, a full cloud slicer, AI failure and bed detection, a maintenance system, teams and permissions, native mobile apps and more, in one hosted platform that's free to start. In the table below, their column is the catalogue and manual inventory; ours is the whole platform.
The same filament comparison, plus everything else SimplyPrint does that a catalogue and manual log doesn't.
This is the heart of it. 3D Filament Profiles doesn't connect to your printers, so keeping a spool accurate means weighing it or logging each print yourself. SimplyPrint is connected to them, so your inventory stays right on its own.
Credit where it's due: 3D Filament Profiles has a far larger filament catalogue than we do, and it grows daily. Our database is a different proposition: smaller, but genuinely open, downloadable and wired into tracking.
It's a well-made, genuinely useful resource, and for some people it's the right call. Credit where it's due:
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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 3D Filament Profiles as well!
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| Filament management | ||
| Free to use | ||
| Open-source / self-hostable ? | ||
| Filament database ? | ~29,000 filaments, 960+ brands (self-branded 'world's largest') | Open Filament Database |
| Open, community-built database ? | ||
| Add filament without code or GitHub ? | ||
| Connects directly to your printer ? | ||
| Automatic usage tracking (no manual subtracting) ? | Manual (weigh or log each print) | |
| AMS auto-import (Bambu / Creality / Anycubic) ? | Bambu, Creality, Anycubic + more | |
| Read filament NFC tags | ||
| Write filament NFC tags | ||
| Label printing (direct to Dymo / Zebra) | Dymo & Zebra | |
| Barcode / QR scanning | ||
| Drying tracking | ||
| Storage locations | Flat 'My Locations' + QR (nesting not documented) | |
| Cost & spend tracking | ||
| Custom fields | Fixed-schema settings + notes | |
| Mobile app (iOS & Android) | ||
| Multi-user / team access | ||
| Import your existing spools ? | ||
| Developer API for filament data ? | ||
| Jämför | Läs mer | Läs mer |
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| Filament management | ||
| Free to use | ||
| Open-source / self-hostable ? | ||
| Filament database ? | ~29,000 filaments, 960+ brands (self-branded 'world's largest') | Open Filament Database |
| Open, community-built database ? | ||
| Add filament without code or GitHub ? | ||
| Connects directly to your printer ? | ||
| Automatic usage tracking (no manual subtracting) ? | Manual (weigh or log each print) | |
| AMS auto-import (Bambu / Creality / Anycubic) ? | Bambu, Creality, Anycubic + more | |
| Read filament NFC tags | ||
| Write filament NFC tags | ||
| Label printing (direct to Dymo / Zebra) | Dymo & Zebra | |
| Barcode / QR scanning | ||
| Drying tracking | ||
| Storage locations | Flat 'My Locations' + QR (nesting not documented) | |
| Cost & spend tracking | ||
| Custom fields | Fixed-schema settings + notes | |
| Mobile app (iOS & Android) | ||
| Multi-user / team access | ||
| Import your existing spools ? | ||
| Developer API for filament data ? | ||
| Allmänt | ||
| Har gratisplan | ||
| Free printers | 2 | |
| Max pris | Free | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Gratis molnlagring | 1GB | |
| Användningsbaserad kostnad | ||
| Obegränsad utskrift | ||
| Stöder alla skrivare | ||
| Funktioner | ||
| Fjärråtkomst | ||
| Känner din skrivare | ||
| Cloud-filer | ||
| Skrivarkö | ||
| Livestream | ||
| Gcode-analys | ||
| A.I-feldetektering | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / kontinuerlig utskrift | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Utskriftsjobbshistorik | ||
| Skriv ut på distans | ||
| Inbyggd slicer | ||
| Multiskrivarvänlig | ||
| Multiutskrift | ||
| Multistream | ||
| Statistik | ||
| API | ||
| Slicer smart-rotation | ||
| Smart filamentbyte | ||
| Bäddnivelleringshjälp | ||
| Organisation | ||
| Flera användare | ||
| Användargrupper / roller | ||
| Användarbehörigheter | ||
| Skolplan | ||
| Delade filer & mappar | ||
| Delade slicerprofiler | ||
| Hub | ||
| Anpassade domäner | ||
| SSO (single sign-on) | ||
| Aviseringar | ||
| E-postaviseringar | ||
| Push (mobil/app)-notiser | ||
| SMS-/textmeddelandeaviseringar | ||
| Appar | ||
| Android-app | ||
| iOS-app | ||
| "PWA" (installerbar webbapplikation) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Tvåfaktorsautentisering för konto | ||
| Integritetsmedveten analys & datainsamling ? | ||
| Support | ||
| Livechattsupport | ||
| Telefonsupport | ||
| E-postsupport | ||
| Firmware- & gatewaystöd | ||
| OctoPrint-installation | ||
| Inbyggt Moonraker-stöd | ||
| Mainsail-installation | ||
| Fluidd-installation | ||
| Klipper-stöd | ||
| Duet3D-integration | ||
| Direkt Prusa-stöd (MK4, XL och uppåt / nya moderkort) | ||
| Direkt Bambu Lab-skrivarintegration | ||
| Stöd för anpassade integrationer | ||
| Enterprise & partner | ||
| OEM | ||
| Partnerprogram (återförsäljare/distributör) | ||
| Affiliate-program | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Jämför | Läs mer | Läs mer |
Kontakta oss om du tycker att vi har gjort ett misstag i vår jämförelse!
Vi gjorde SimplyPrint eftersom inget annat på marknaden riktigt passade våra behov. Vi ville ha en plattform som var enkel att använda, men som ändå hade alla funktioner vi behövde. Vi ville ha en funktionsrik plattform, intuitiv och enkel att använda, med en fantastisk användarupplevelse och verklig innovation inom programvara för 3D-utskriftshantering.
Sammanfattningsvis tycker vi, ödmjuka och opartiska som vi är 😉, att SimplyPrint-plattformen är ett utmärkt alternativ till 3D Filament Profiles!
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