# SimplyPrint vs RaiseCloud

## About RaiseCloud

- **Website:** [RaiseCloud](https://cloud.raise3d.com/)

## Overview

RaiseCloud is Raise3D's own cloud for managing a fleet of Raise3D printers, and for an all-Raise3D shop it's a smooth, first-party experience: tight ideaMaker integration, an online slicer, a print queue, work orders and reporting, with real industrial pedigree behind it (the Pro series, the RMF500). It's also free within a printer and seat cap.**
The catch shows the moment your fleet isn't all Raise3D. Every other brand has to connect through RaiseOcto**, a Raspberry-Pi/OctoPrint bridge plugin that hasn't shipped a release since 2020. So RaiseCloud is really a vendor console: excellent for Raise3D hardware, a cliff-edge for anything else. SimplyPrint is brand-agnostic by design, and adds the AI, automation and shop-floor tools RaiseCloud doesn't have. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.

## Pros of RaiseCloud

RaiseCloud has real strengths, and they're worth being honest about:**

- Free** within a printer/seat cap, with no public per-seat price to start.
- **Tight Raise3D + ideaMaker integration:** a smooth, first-party slice-queue-monitor-report loop on Raise3D hardware.
- **Industrial pedigree:** built for serious production machines (Pro series, RMF500), with work orders and timed reports.
- **It has the basics:** online slicing, a print queue, job history, reporting/statistics, multi-user teams and native iOS/Android apps.

## Cons of RaiseCloud

Where RaiseCloud runs into a ceiling for a mixed farm:**

- Vendor-locked:** non-Raise3D printers connect only through RaiseOcto, an OctoPrint bridge last updated in 2020, no native Bambu, Klipper, Prusa or Duet.
- **No AI failure detection** and no continuous (lights-out) printing.
- **Filament is cloud usage-tracking only:** newer Raise3D hardware reads RFID spools at the machine, but there's no cloud NFC inventory and no label printing.
- **No maintenance system, no education plan and no SSO.**
- **AWS-hosted** with no EU data-residency region.

## Feature Comparison: SimplyPrint vs RaiseCloud

### General

| Feature | RaiseCloud | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------|-------------|
| Has free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Max cost | Free; paid printer/seat add-ons | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Free cloud storage | ✗ | 1GB |
| Usage based cost | ✓ | ✗ |
| Unlimited printing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supports all printers | Raise3D native (others via bridge) | ✓ |

### Features

| Feature | RaiseCloud | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------|-------------|
| Remote access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filament management | Usage tracking | ✓ |
| Knows your printer | Raise printers only | ✓ |
| Cloud files | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print queue | ✓ | ✓ |
| Livestream | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gcode analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| A.I failure detection | ✗ | ✓ |
| AutoPrint / continuous printing | ✗ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✗ | ✓ |

### Organizations

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

### Apps

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

### Security & Privacy

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

### Support

| Feature | RaiseCloud | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------|-------------|
| Email support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live-chat support | ✗ | ✓ |
| Phone support | ✗ | ✓ |

### Firmware & Gateway Support

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

### Enterprise & Partners

| Feature | RaiseCloud | SimplyPrint |
|---------|----------|-------------|
| OEM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Partner program (reseller / distributor) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Affiliate program | ✗ | ✓ |