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.
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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| 常规 | ||
| 提供免费套餐 | ||
| Free printers | 2 | 2 |
| 免费云存储 | 0.5GB | 1GB |
| 基于使用量的费用 | ||
| 无限打印 | ||
| 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) ? | ||
| 支持所有打印机 | Bambu, Klipper, basic Prusa only | |
| 功能 | ||
| 远程访问 | ||
| 耗材管理 | Yes (Professional+) | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | QR labels | |
| 了解您的打印机 | ||
| 云文件 | ||
| 打印队列 | ||
| 直播 | ||
| Gcode分析 | Plate info only | |
| AI故障检测 | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / 连续打印 | Bambu A1 Mini Swap Mod only | |
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| 打印任务历史 | ||
| 远程打印 | ||
| 内置切片软件 | Headless only (no editor) | |
| 支持多打印机 | ||
| 批量打印 | Yes (Professional+) | |
| 多路视频流 | ||
| 统计 | ||
| API | Read-only (Pro), read-write (Business) | |
| 切片软件智能旋转 | ||
| 智能耗材更换 | ||
| 打印床调平助手 | ||
| 组织 | ||
| 多用户 | Up to 4 users | |
| 用户组/等级 | ||
| 用户权限 | Basic (Professional+) | |
| 学校版 | ||
| 共享文件&文件夹 | ||
| 共享切片配置文件 | ||
| Hub | ||
| 自定义域名 | ||
| SSO(单点登录) | Google / Apple login only | |
| 通知 | ||
| 电子邮件通知 | ||
| 推送通知(移动/应用) | ||
| 短信通知 | ||
| 应用 | ||
| Android应用 | ||
| iOS 应用 | ||
| “PWA”(可安装的网络应用) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| 账户双重验证 | ||
| 注重隐私的分析 & 数据收集 ? | ||
| 支持 | ||
| 在线客服支持 | Paid plans (Hobby+) | |
| 电话支持 | ||
| 电子邮件支持 | ||
| 固件 & 网关支持 | ||
| OctoPrint安装 | ||
| 原生支持 Moonraker | ||
| Mainsail 安装 | ||
| 安装 Fluidd | ||
| Klipper支持 | ||
| Duet3D 集成 | ||
| 直接支持 Prusa(MK4、XL 及更新型号/新主板) | Basic (PrusaLink) | |
| 直接集成 Bambu Lab 打印机 | ||
| 支持自定义集成 | ||
| 企业 & 合作伙伴 | ||
| OEM | ||
| 合作伙伴计划(经销商/分销商) | ||
| 联盟计划 | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Selling & custom products | ||
| Automated Etsy / Shopify order-to-print ? | Shopify, WooCommerce, Upgates | Closed beta: coming soon |
| 比较 | 查看价格 | 查看价格 |
如果您认为我们的对比内容有误,请联系我们!
我们打造SimplyPrint,是因为市面上没有一款产品能真正满足我们的需求。我们想要一个易于使用、同时功能齐全的平台。我们希望它功能丰富、直观易用,拥有出色的用户体验,并在3D打印管理软件领域实现真正的创新。
总而言之,我们(谦逊而公正,就像我们一直标榜的那样😉)认为SimplyPrint平台是Printerhive的绝佳替代方案!
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