Bambu Lab
A1
$299.99
Creality
Based on 115 Reddit mentions
$719.00
Sentiment summary across the product areas Reddit users mention most.
Original Reddit posts and comments behind this analysis.
I wish they would just fix all the current printers and stop with all these new releases. This ia just carbon copy of the A1 under as new creality name, and they use customers as beta testers. I have a K1 , K1 max that i have to tinker with to make work and a Ender 3 v3 Se that was my kids xmas gift
...flyboypr77 in r/Creality
January 8, 2026 3:01 PM
9
Im not saying Creality is perfect, they are not. I have 6 Creality 3d Printers, the oldest is my K1 Max, just about 2 years old, nothing major has broken, original unicorn hotend, original extruder etc. nothing major. Had to replace the Hotend PCB , because i fucked up, broke the lidar connector. I
...Projmanzar in r/crealityk1
August 4, 2025 5:52 PM
16
Coming out a a Creality k1 max I picked up an a1 mini from a friend as I wanted to see if it was as good as people make them out to be. Yep. I have a P2S and it’s a great machine. To be fair I also have a Core One which has been great as well. The amount of hours I wasted on troubleshooting that Cre
...AmmoJoee in r/BambuLab
March 31, 2026 1:47 AM
5
I have collectively 3000 hours on my 3 K2 Plus printers. I print everything from PLA to Nylon. The bed is the Achilles’ heel on these printers. I have one that has a 0.25 variance from the factory, the other 2 were bad, one was 1.2 and the other was I’ve 0.9. I tried a lot of things but finally I us
...Supabee78Reborn in r/Creality_k2
March 29, 2026 11:46 PM
5
Vorons are fantastic printers. I built a v2 LDO kit and loved it so much that I got a v0 ldo kit as well for rapid prototyping, and I'm in the process of rebuilding my v2 to be a stealthchanger with 6 toolheads. you can tinker and mod and do whatever you want with them and stock they are fantastic.
...cpgeek in r/VORONDesign
March 13, 2026 10:07 PM
5
Bambu has put a lot of work into their product, but they really want to lock you into their ecosystem. If that doesn't bother you then it might be a good choice. Personally I like Creality and have two K1MAX printers that I run the living daylights out of on a regular basis. If someone is just start
...CloneWerks in r/3dprinter
April 2, 2026 3:37 PM
3
I run Orcaslicer on my CachyOS with good performance and not any issues except from when i try to go into the device tab in the slicer on my when having my profile set to the Creality K1 Max and the launcher just crashes. but other then that it works great ! :) the only thing i gotta do to get the s
...PervyJoker in r/cachyos
April 6, 2026 1:28 AM
3
Currently, I've been running a massive project: I've been printing The Castle of the Vampire Lord: a 7ft tall miniature playable reproduction of Castle Ravenloft in D&D. The thing is massive, so much so that I've been running 2 K1maxs around the clock for the past few months. The only thing I'm real
...silicon_phoenix in r/Creality
August 23, 2025 3:52 AM
6
That’s a wild take. I own 27 printers split between Creality K1/K2+/sarmoons & K1max, Bambu H2Cs + one snapmaker U1. My oldest printers from Creality have over 12k hrs. Average for my K series is about 5000hrs, Bambu has the same hrs as the K series & the snapmaker has less than 100hrs since we just
...Bulky-Travel-2500 in r/Creality_k2
April 8, 2026 5:23 PM
2
Welcome welcome! I, too, am an Ender 3 survivor. While the experience of building it and dealing with all the fiddley settings was valuable, I can say that I have had my Bambu X1C for a year now and only now is it politely asking me to perform maintenance on it. And it still works better than my Cre
...whispie in r/BambuLab
December 11, 2025 1:17 PM
2