Creality Cloud is a free, all-in-one app with a huge model marketplace and maker community, plus cloud monitoring and remote control for Creality printers. For a hobbyist with one or two Creality machines, it's genuinely good: free, polished native apps, a big library of models to print, in-app cloud slicing, and tight integration with Creality's own hardware.
What it isn't is print-farm or classroom software. There's no real farm queue or continuous-printing automation, no team roles or SSO, no filament inventory or maintenance system, it's Creality-centric (other brands only via an OctoPrint plugin), and it's a Chinese-owned platform with no EU data-residency option. For a farm or a lab, or anyone who wants their data in-region, that's where SimplyPrint comes in. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Creality Cloud is a free community and remote-control app for Creality owners: a big model marketplace, free cloud monitoring (Premium is $7.99/mo, and bundled with some new Creality machines), in-app slicing and tight Creality hardware integration. If you have a Creality printer and want free monitoring plus models, it's a great hobbyist pick.
SimplyPrint is print-farm and classroom management that runs any brand. It adds a real print queue, AutoPrint continuous printing, AI failure detection, filament inventory with NFC, a maintenance system, multi-user roles with SSO and a school plan, and it natively runs Bambu, Klipper/Moonraker, Prusa, Marlin, Duet and OctoPrint, with EU + US data centres so you can keep data in-region. For a production fleet, that's the difference.
Creality Cloud lets you watch and control a few printers from your phone. SimplyPrint is built to actually run a fleet.
For a Creality hobbyist, Creality Cloud has genuine strengths, and SimplyPrint is honest about them:
Creality Cloud is Creality-centric, single-account, and Chinese-owned. SimplyPrint is brand-agnostic, team-ready, and lets you choose your region.
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 Creality Cloud as well!
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| General | ||
| Has free plan | ||
| Free printers | 2 | |
| Max cost | $7.99/mo (or $79.99/yr) | Free, or from $9.99/mo (Pro) |
| Free cloud storage | 2GB | 1GB |
| Usage based cost | ||
| Unlimited printing | ||
| Supports all printers | Creality (others via OctoPrint plugin) | |
| Features | ||
| Remote access | ||
| Filament management | Multi-colour assignment only | |
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Knows your printer | Creality printers | |
| Cloud files | ||
| Print queue | ||
| Livestream | ||
| Gcode analysis | ||
| A.I failure detection | Creality printers only | |
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / continuous printing | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Print job history | ||
| Print remotely | ||
| Built-in slicer | ||
| Multi-printer friendly | ||
| Multi-print | ||
| Multi-stream | ||
| Statistics | ||
| API | ||
| Slicer smart-rotation | ||
| Smart filament change | ||
| Bed level helper | ||
| Organization | ||
| Multiple users | ||
| User groups / ranks | ||
| User permissions | ||
| School plan | ||
| Shared files & folders | ||
| Shared slicer profiles | ||
| Hub | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| SSO (single sign-on) | ||
| 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 | ||
| Phone support | ||
| Email support | ||
| Firmware & gateway support | ||
| OctoPrint install | Connect via plugin | |
| Native Moonraker support | ||
| Mainsail install | ||
| Fluidd install | ||
| Klipper support | Creality K-series only | |
| Duet3D integration | ||
| Direct Prusa support (MK4, XL and up / new main boards) | ||
| Direct Creality integration (modern printers) ? | ||
| Direct Bambu Lab printer integration | ||
| Support for custom integrations | ||
| Enterprise & partners | ||
| OEM | ||
| Partner program (reseller / distributor) | ||
| Affiliate program | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Contact us | |
| Compare | See pricing | See pricing |
Contact us if you think we made a mistake in our comparison!
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 Creality Cloud alternative!
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