Looking for Printerhive alternatives?
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.
Runs every printer, not just Bambu
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.
Cheaper for a working farm, and it keeps scaling
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.
Where Printerhive might be the better pick
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):
Printerhive and SimplyPrint comparison
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!
Pros of using Printerhive
Printerhive has real strengths, and they're worth being honest about:- Embeddable quote calculator: their standout, a widget you embed on your own site so customers upload an STL, get an instant estimate, and send an inquiry to your dashboard. SimplyPrint doesn't have this yet.
- Live shop-order import: Shopify, WooCommerce and Upgates orders flow into a production workflow (with a manual review step). SimplyPrint's direct storefront link is still in closed beta.
- Bambu heritage: they were one of the first to fully control Bambu Lab printers remotely, with solid AMS auto-matching.
Cons of using Printerhive
Where Printerhive tends to fall short for a working farm:- Narrow printer support: Bambu and Klipper plus basic Prusa only; no OctoPrint, no Marlin-over-USB and no Duet, and every printer needs a Raspberry Pi client on the network.
- No AI detection: no AI failure detection and no AI bed-check.
- No interactive slicer: slicing is headless only (prep your plates in desktop OrcaSlicer first); there's no in-browser build-plate editor.
- Hard ceiling: the top plan caps at 30 printers and 4 users for €100/mo, with no volume discount, no annual discount and "beta" pricing set to rise.
- Missing farm tools: no native mobile apps, no NFC filament tags, no maintenance system, no enterprise SSO and no Education plan.
- Very new and small: founded in 2024 by a two-person team, with near-zero independent reviews and no published DPA or uptime SLA yet.
Printerhive vs. SimplyPrint
Side-by-side list comparison of details and features in Printerhive and SimplyPrint
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| General | ||
| Available since | 2024 | 2020 |
| Has free plan | ||
| Free printers | 2 | 2 |
| Free cloud storage | 0.5GB | 1GB |
| Usage based cost | ||
| Unlimited printing | ||
| 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) ? | ||
| Supports all printers | Bambu, Klipper, basic Prusa only | |
| Features | ||
| Remote access | ||
| Filament management | Yes (Professional+) | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | QR labels | |
| Knows your printer | ||
| Cloud files | ||
| Print queue | ||
| Livestream | ||
| Gcode analysis | Plate info only | |
| A.I failure detection | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / continuous printing | Bambu A1 Mini Swap Mod only | |
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Schedule prints | ||
| Print job history | ||
| Print remotely | ||
| Built-in slicer | Headless only (no editor) | |
| Multi-printer friendly | ||
| Multi-print | Yes (Professional+) | |
| Multi-stream | ||
| Statistics | ||
| API | Read-only (Pro), read-write (Business) | |
| Slicer smart-rotation | ||
| Smart filament change | ||
| Bed level helper | ||
| Organization | ||
| Multiple users | Up to 4 users | |
| User groups / ranks | ||
| User permissions | Basic (Professional+) | |
| School plan | ||
| Shared files & folders | ||
| Shared slicer profiles | ||
| Hub | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| SSO (single sign-on) | Google / Apple login only | |
| Notifications | ||
| Email notifications | ||
| Push (mobile / app) notifications | ||
| SMS / text message notifications | ||
| Apps | ||
| Android app | ||
| iOS app | ||
| "PWA" (installable web-application) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Account 2-factor authentication | ||
| Privacy-minded analytics & data-gathering ? | ||
| Support | ||
| Live-chat support | Paid plans (Hobby+) | |
| Phone support | ||
| Email support | ||
| Firmware & gateway support | ||
| OctoPrint install | ||
| Native Moonraker support | ||
| Mainsail install | ||
| Fluidd install | ||
| Klipper support | ||
| Duet3D integration | ||
| Direct Prusa support (MK4, XL and up / new main boards) | Basic (PrusaLink) | |
| Direct Bambu Lab printer integration | ||
| Support for custom integrations | ||
| Enterprise & partners | ||
| OEM | ||
| Partner program (reseller / distributor) | ||
| Affiliate program | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Selling & custom products | ||
| Automated Etsy / Shopify order-to-print ? | Shopify, WooCommerce, Upgates | Closed beta: coming soon |
| Compare | See pricing | See pricing |
SimplyPrint prices are shown in USD; see our pricing page for your local currency. Competitor prices are shown as they publish them.
Contact us if you think we made a mistake in our comparison!
Printerhive vs. SimplyPrint: frequently asked questions
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Conclusion
Why SimplyPrint is the Top Printerhive Alternative
We made SimplyPrint due to the fact, that nothing else on the market quite fit our needs. We wanted a platform that was easy to use, but still had all the features we needed. We wanted a feature-rich platform, intuitive and easy to use, with a great user experience and actual innovation within the 3D print management software space.
In summary, we - humble and unbiased as we are 😉 - believe that the SimplyPrint platform is a great Printerhive alternative!
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