# SimplyPrint vs Prusa Easy Print

## About Prusa Easy Print

- **Website:** [Prusa Easy Print](https://www.printables.com/slice)

## Overview

Prusa Easy Print is Prusa's cloud slicer: PrusaSlicer running on Prusa's servers, behind a deliberately simple front-end, free on Printables and in the Prusa App. The idea is lovely, slice a Prusa print in a few taps from your phone or tablet, and for a quick first print it works well.**
But "easy" is the whole design: Easy Print hands you a handful of high-level choices (a quality preset, material, infill, supports, adhesion, some MMU color painting) and decides everything else, temperatures, speeds, flow, retraction, for you. There's no full settings tree. When you need real control, Prusa's own answer is to download the project as a 3MF and open it in desktop PrusaSlicer.

SimplyPrint runs the same PrusaSlicer engine in the cloud**, on the same phones, tablets and Chromebooks, but gives you **100% of the settings**, not a preset picker, plus OrcaSlicer, BambuStudio, ElegooSlicer, CrealityPrint, Cura & Kiri:Moto for when you don't print only on a Prusa. Same easy cloud slicing, without settling for less of a slicer. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.

## Pros of Prusa Easy Print

Prusa Easy Print has real strengths, and they're worth being honest about:**

- Free and official from Prusa:** made by Prusa Research, free on Printables and in the Prusa App.
- **The real PrusaSlicer engine:** it's a simplified front-end for PrusaSlicer running on Prusa's servers, so the underlying slicing is the genuine article.
- **Genuinely easy:** pick a quality preset and a material and slice; it's about the fewest taps to a finished Prusa print, great for beginners.
- **Runs on phone, tablet and browser:** because slicing is server-side, it works from a phone, tablet or laptop with nothing to install.
- **Tight Prusa & Printables integration:** slice straight from a Printables model and send to your Prusa, with MMU multi-color painting supported.

## Cons of Prusa Easy Print

Where Prusa Easy Print falls short if you want a full slicer:**

- Only a handful of settings:** it exposes high-level options (preset, material, infill, supports, adhesion) and auto-decides speeds, flow, temperatures and retraction. There's no full settings tree, and Prusa's answer for real control is to open the 3MF in desktop PrusaSlicer.
- **A throttled free tier:** each plate is capped at about 60 seconds of slicing with an undisclosed daily limit, one job at a time, and very large or complex models are refused; heavier work needs the paid subscription or the desktop app.
- **PrusaSlicer only:** one engine. A Bambu or Creality print means switching to that brand's software.
- **Prusa-first:** primarily designed for Prusa printers; it reaches around 22 other brands over LAN, but Bambu Lab is excluded from sending jobs.
- **Slicing only:** it's a slicer, not a print platform, so there's no built-in queue, monitoring, AI detection or team management beyond Prusa's own tools.

## Feature Comparison: SimplyPrint vs Prusa Easy Print

### General

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Has free plan | Free (with slicing caps) | ✓ |
| Max cost | Free; paid via Prusa subscription | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Free cloud storage | ✗ | 1GB |
| Usage based cost | ✗ | ✗ |
| Unlimited printing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Supports all printers | ✗ | ✓ |

### Features

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Remote access | ✗ | ✓ |
| Filament management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Knows your printer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cloud files | Projects | ✓ |
| Print queue | ✗ | ✓ |
| Livestream | ✗ | ✓ |
| Gcode analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| A.I failure detection | ✗ | ✓ |
| AutoPrint / continuous printing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Custom fields | ✗ | ✓ |
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Print job history | ✗ | ✓ |
| Print remotely | Prusa + LAN brands | ✓ |
| Built-in slicer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-printer friendly | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-print | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-stream | ✗ | ✓ |
| Statistics | ✗ | ✓ |
| API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Slicer smart-rotation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Smart filament change | ✗ | ✓ |
| Bed level helper | ✗ | ✓ |

### Organizations

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Multiple users | ✗ | ✓ |
| User groups / ranks | ✗ | ✓ |
| User permissions | ✗ | ✓ |
| School plan | ✗ | ✓ |
| Shared files & folders | ✗ | ✓ |
| Shared slicer profiles | ✗ | ✓ |
| Hub | ✗ | ✓ |
| Custom domains | ✗ | ✓ |
| SSO (single sign-on) | ✗ | ✓ |

### Notifications

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Email notifications | ✗ | ✓ |
| Push (mobile / app) notifications | ✗ | ✓ |
| SMS / text message notifications | ✗ | ✓ |

### Apps

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Android app | ✗ | ✓ |
| iOS app | ✗ | ✓ |
| "PWA" (installable web-application) | ✗ | ✓ |

### Security & Privacy

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Account 2-factor authentication | ✗ | ✓ |
| EU servers | ✗ | ✓ |
| Privacy-minded analytics & data-gathering | ✗ | ✓ |

### Support

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| Email support | ✗ | ✓ |
| Live-chat support | ✗ | ✓ |
| Phone support | ✗ | ✓ |

### Firmware & Gateway Support

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| OctoPrint install | ✗ | ✓ |
| Native Moonraker support | ✗ | ✓ |
| Mainsail install | ✗ | ✓ |
| Fluidd install | ✗ | ✓ |
| Klipper support | ✗ | ✓ |
| Duet3D integration | ✗ | ✓ |
| Direct Prusa support (MK4, XL and up / new main boards) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Direct Bambu Lab printer integration | ✗ | ✓ |
| Support for custom integrations | ✗ | ✓ |

### Enterprise & Partners

| Feature | Prusa Easy Print | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| OEM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Partner program (reseller / distributor) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Affiliate program | ✗ | ✓ |