LayerFlow3D vs Printago
Printago is production management for a print farm: it drives the machines, slices in the cloud and routes jobs across a mixed fleet. We do none of that, and this page says where each of us is actually stronger.
Checked September 15, 2026
Choose Printago if
- You want software that actually drives the machines - queues work to them, slices in the cloud, and keeps a mixed fleet busy without somebody carrying files around.
- Your bottleneck is throughput rather than bookkeeping. Lights-out production and capability-aware routing are theirs, and we do not compete on either.
- You already sell through Shopify or Etsy and want the fulfilment side automated end to end in one product.
- You run many machines and few jobs at once. Unlimited printers and $4 a slot a month is a good deal for that shape of farm.
Choose LayerFlow3D if
- The question you cannot answer is what an order made, rather than which printer is free.
- You want filament as stock with a cost per spool, drawn down by the job, rather than a material matched to a print.
- You sell from a page of your own rather than a marketplace: a public shop is included on every plan, with no Shopify or Etsy account behind it.
- You are not running a fleet yet. Most of what Printago does well needs one.
Side by side
| Feature | LayerFlow3D | Printago |
|---|---|---|
| Driving the printers | No. We read telemetry from them; we do not send them work. | Yes - fleet control across brands, with job routing 1 |
| Cloud slicing | No. You slice the way you already slice. | Yes, included at every level 2 |
| Automatic job routing across a mixed fleet | No. | Yes - Smart Queue and capability matching 1 |
| Orders from a shop channel | A public shop page of your own, included on every plan. | Shopify and Etsy order intake, through their Commerce Hub 1 |
| Filament as stock with a cost | Spool by spool, each with what you paid for it, drawn down as jobs consume it. | Per spool: type, colour and remaining quantity, matched to a job; not what the spool cost 3 |
| Cost and margin per order | Filament, machine hours and labour against the price, per order. | Yes - material, labour and overhead per order, and a margin per SKU 2 |
| Shipping labels | Carrier integrations, from the order. | Not listed among their features 1 |
| Published prices | Yes, on the pricing section. | Yes - $4.00 per production slot a month, the first slot free 2 |
| What you pay for | Orders per month. | Production slots - unlimited printers, you pay for simultaneous jobs 2 |
What it costs
LayerFlow3D
Free plan with a monthly order cap, no card. Paid plans lift the cap. The figures are on the pricing section.
Printago
Per production slot rather than per printer: the first slot is free, then $4.00 a slot a month, or $3.67 billed annually (their "save 10%"), for any count from one to fifty - ten slots is $36 a month. A 14-day trial on additional slots; 5 GB of storage and cloud slicing at every level. US dollars. 2
Questions people ask
Can I use both?
Yes, and for a farm of any size that is a reasonable arrangement: Printago driving the machines, LayerFlow3D holding the orders, the stock and the money. They are not trying to be each other.
How is Printago priced?
By production slot, which is a job running at once, not by printer: connecting printers is free. The first slot is free, each further slot is $4.00 a month or $3.67 billed annually, and the page lets you pick any count up to fifty. Ten slots is $36 a month. Their pricing page draws the figure once it loads, so it is easy to miss; it is there.
Does LayerFlow3D send jobs to printers?
No. We read what the machines are doing - Bambu, Creality, Klipper and OctoPrint - and cost their time. Slicing and sending are left to the software you already use.
Printago says it tracks costs too. What is different?
Their site is specific: material, labour and overhead per order, with a cost of goods and a margin per SKU. The difference is where the filament figure comes from. Their material tracking knows a spool by type, colour and remaining quantity; ours carries what each spool cost, so two spools of the same colour bought at different prices are not averaged, and the order draws from the spool it actually used.
Sources
Every claim about Printago on this page came off their own public site, read on September 15, 2026. Prices move. If one of these is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
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