Can't find a SimplyPrint plan that fits you?

If you've looked at our pricing and feel like none of the plans is quite right, this article is for you. It explains how our plans are organized, who each one is built for, and the honest reasoning behind how we price them, including why we don't offer some of the things people often ask for.

We'd rather level with you than give a polished non-answer, so this is the real explanation. A lot of the ideas people raise about our pricing are ones we've already worked through in detail, and we'll show our working.

Table of contents

• Start by matching yourself to a plan
• Why there is no single perfect plan
• The full plan lineup
• Single-tool plans
• But I want one feature from a higher plan
• The alternatives people suggest, and why they don't work
• What about a custom plan?
• Why our pricing is the way it is
• Why we sometimes say no quickly
• We can't be perfect for everyone, and that's okay
• Related articles

Start by matching yourself to a plan

Before deciding there's no plan for you, try the one that most resembles your situation. We work hard to keep the plans fair and clearly targeted, and most people fit one of them better than they expect.

The full feature-by-feature comparison lives on our pricing page. The summary below is less about exact prices and more about who each plan is for.

Why there is no single perfect plan

SimplyPrint is used by an unusually wide range of people: hobbyists with a single printer, kids and grandparents getting into 3D printing, serious makers, small businesses, professional print farms running dozens or hundreds of printers, schools and universities with makerspaces, and even governments and militaries. Some people come to us only for the slicer and don't realize we do anything else. Others come only for the filament manager. Some run their entire operation on us.

No single plan can fit all of that without being a compromise for everyone. So instead of one do-everything plan, we offer a small set of focused ones, plus single-tool plans for people who only need a slice of the platform. The goal is for each plan to be a great fit for a clear group, rather than a mediocre fit for all.

The full plan lineup

On the pricing page our plans are grouped into three families: Personal & Business, Just one tool, and Education.

Personal & Business

• Free - hobbyists and beginners with one or two printers. Genuinely free, and deliberately generous (two printers and cloud slicing every month at no cost).
• Basic - hobbyists and enthusiasts with up to three printers who want more than Free offers, including unlimited cloud slicing.
• Pro - serious hobbyists and small businesses with up to ten printers. Adds advanced features, API access, queue management, and a limited version of AutoPrint.
• Print Farm - print farms and businesses with ten or more printers. Built to scale, with advanced API access and the professional features farms rely on.
• Enterprise - large or multi-site organizations that need things like single sign-on, IP allow-listing, enforced two-factor authentication, usage policies, an audit log, a signed data-processing agreement, an uptime SLA, and white-glove support, on top of everything in Print Farm.

Just one tool

• Cloud Slicer - for people who only want browser-based slicing, without the rest of the platform.
• Filament Manager - for people who only want filament inventory tracking (spools, locations, weight, drying, and labels), without the rest of the platform.

Education

• School - schools, universities, and makerspaces, with pricing designed for large numbers of students and educators.

Single-tool plans

If you only need one piece of SimplyPrint, you shouldn't have to buy the whole platform. That's exactly what the single-tool plans are for, and they exist because users told us so. Cloud Slicer and Filament Manager each cost about the same as Free plus that one tool, which puts them, price-wise, between Free and Basic.

So if you only need cloud slicing, or only need filament tracking, look at those before assuming you have to jump up to Pro. They're a direct result of "I can't find a plan for just my use" feedback, and a clear example of us listening and acting on it.

But I want one feature from a higher plan

This is the most common reason people feel stuck. You've found a feature on, say, Print Farm or Enterprise, you'd love to use it, but you can't justify that plan for one feature. We understand that completely, and we know paying for a plan to use a single feature, what people call shelfware, never feels good.

But most advanced features sit on higher plans for a reason: they're built for, and paid for by, the customers who actually depend on them, like farms, schools, and enterprises. A feature can be genuinely cool and useful for a hobbyist while still being a nice-to-have there rather than a need-to-have. For a print farm or a school, that same feature is essential infrastructure. If we moved every advanced feature down to the cheapest tier, the customers those features are built for would end up subsidizing everyone else, and we wouldn't be able to keep building and supporting them.

So we draw lines, and sometimes a feature you'd enjoy lives on a plan aimed at a different kind of user. That isn't us saying your needs don't count. It's us being deliberate about who each plan serves.

The alternatives people suggest, and why they don't work

When a plan doesn't fit, people often propose a way we could change our pricing to fit them. We read every one of these, and most are ideas we've already costed out carefully. Here are the ones that come up most, and the honest reason we haven't done them.

• Pay-as-you-go, or per-slice and per-printer micro-charges. This sounds flexible, but it doesn't survive the math. Payment processors take a fixed cut plus a per-transaction fee, and every subscription carries roughly the same accounting and upkeep cost whether it bills one dollar or fifty. At a few cents or a dollar at a time, fees and overhead eat the entire charge. The usual workaround, prepaying a balance, only makes sense above about five dollars, which is already the price of a real plan. We've run these numbers; they don't add up.
• An ad-supported free tier. We're not putting ads in the platform. We'd rather charge a fair price than sell your attention, and at our scale ad revenue wouldn't come close to covering server costs anyway.
• A build-your-own or mix-your-own plan. To fit everyone exactly, we'd need either thousands of plans or a fully à la carte menu. Both are nearly impossible to understand as a customer and impossible for us to maintain, support, and keep our books straight on. A few clear, well-targeted plans beat an infinite menu for almost everyone.
• Extra users on Basic or Pro. Multiple users, roles, and permissions are a core part of what the Print Farm, School, and Enterprise plans are, and what their customers pay for. Adding them to the hobbyist tiers is a line we deliberately hold. We know that stings if you just want to add a family member, and it's still a no.
• A cheap plan with everything in it. The "everything" is exactly what farms, schools, and enterprises pay for. A budget tier that bundled it all in would mean those customers subsidize everyone else, and we couldn't keep building the advanced features in the first place.

None of these are us being lazy or short-sighted. They're conclusions we reached after actually working through the economics, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than leave the idea hanging and give false hope.

What about a custom plan?

We do build custom plans, but they're not a back door to a cheaper deal, and they're not aimed at individuals or small setups. Custom plans start at $500 a month, and we don't go below that under any circumstances.

They're also not something we take on lightly. Each one takes real time to set up, support, and keep running, so even above $500 the answer is sometimes still no, depending on what's being asked for. If you have a genuine large-scale or organizational need that none of our standard plans covers, that's what our Enterprise plan is for, and it's the right place to start before anything bespoke is on the table.

Why our pricing is the way it is

We're a small team that has worked on SimplyPrint every day for over six years. The platform has to pay the people who build and support it. We believe it's priced fairly for what it does, and for this market it's on the cheaper side.

Our Free plan is genuinely generous: two printers and cloud slicing every month at no cost, which is more than a number of comparable tools give away for free. The paid plans are simply how the lights stay on and the platform keeps improving. Good software, built and maintained by people who do this full-time, costs something to run, and the subscriptions are what make that possible.

We're not raising prices to chase margins, and we're not going to suddenly make everything free either. What we can tell you is that we intend to keep our pricing fair, and we're not planning to make it more expensive.

Why we sometimes say no quickly

However you raise it, in our suggestion box, in live chat, by email, or in our Discord, a request that boils down to "make this free" or "give me this paid feature on a cheaper plan" will sometimes get a fast no. In the suggestion box that can even mean the post is archived on the spot. That can feel like a brush-off, so here's the honest reason it isn't one.

We'd rather keep these conversations rooted in reality. When we already know, after years of doing this, that something isn't feasible or isn't where we're taking the platform, the respectful thing is to say so plainly rather than leave you with false hope. A quick, honest no with a reason is us taking the request seriously, not ignoring it.

And we genuinely do move when the feedback is right. Our single-tool plans, a lower-priced plan for people who only wanted unlimited slicing, and bringing a limited version of AutoPrint down to the Pro plan all came from exactly this kind of feedback. We didn't get there by making everything free; we got there by finding a fair way to serve a need we'd heard repeatedly.

We can't be perfect for everyone, and that's okay

We love hobbyists, and we have plans for them, plus a Free plan that's generous on purpose. But our core business is print farms, enterprises, and schools, and we've chosen those audiences deliberately. A platform that tries to be perfect for absolutely everyone ends up great for no one.

We're not claiming our plans are perfect, and we're not pretending they are. What we'd ask is that you trust us to design them, and to keep adjusting them as time goes on and the market grows. They're deliberately built around our current user base and the broadest groups of people using SimplyPrint today, and we revisit them as that picture changes. It's genuinely fine not to identify one hundred percent with a single plan; they're designed so that most people can see themselves in at least one of them. And wanting a feature that happens to sit on a higher plan is completely understandable too. None of that is a problem.

So if you don't see yourself perfectly in one of our plans, we're not telling you to get lost. We've simply had to make choices about who we build for, and we'd rather be honest about that than pretend every plan fits every person. Our best advice is simple: pick the plan that most looks like it fits you and try it. And if you still think we've genuinely got something wrong, our suggestion box is open, just know we read those with everything above in mind.

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Updated on: 26/06/2026