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24 alternatives to Metal 3D Printing at 1/10th the cost

Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing Mass Production of Next Generation Components High-Resolution Metal 3D Printing at Scale Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM) is... Read More

Fabric8labs develops electrochemical additive manufacturing technology for metal 3D printing at scale. The process uses a patented microelectrode array printhead to produce high-quality metal parts for mass… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Metal 3D Printing at 1/10th the cost launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Electroloom▲79
3D Printer For Fabrics. Alpha unit program announced today.
2015 · electroloom.com · its alternatives →
2
Accelerate 3D▲75
Building the Future of on-demand manufacturing.
2021 · accelerate3d.com · its alternatives →
3
Form 2▲139
The most advanced desktop 3d printer ever created
2015 · formlabs.com · its alternatives →
4
Meltio M450 3D Printer▲4
Highly compact Metal 3D Printer for Additive Manufacturing
2023 · additec.net · its alternatives →
5
Mooz▲88
Industrial-grade, transformable, metallic 3D printer
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
6
EFORGE▲69
3D Print Electronics On-Demand
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
7
OLO▲165
The first ever smartphone 3D printer
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
8
Metal X▲11
3D print metal parts overnight at a fraction of the cost.
2017 · markforged.com · its alternatives →
9
Clay Extruder Kit 2.0▲77
3D print in fluid-dense materials and advanced ceramics
2015 · its alternatives →
10
iBox Nano▲63
Teensy weensy 3D printer
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
11
3D Metal Printer▲5
3d metal printer, 3d metal printing
2022 · patreon.com · its alternatives →
12
The Discov3ry▲55
A Universal Paste Extruder for 3D Printers
2014 · its alternatives →
13
I designed my own 3D printer motherboard▲127
3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
FLUX▲118
All-in-One 3D Printer (pre-launch)
2014 · flux3dp.com · its alternatives →
15
Bean 3D Printer▲129
A high resolution, affordable, and reliable resin printer
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
16
Funtionalize▲69
Conductive 3D printing filament (pre-launch)
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
17
OTHR▲8
3D prints developed by designers from around the world
2017 · othr.com · its alternatives →
18
Micro▲80
The First Truly Consumer 3D Printer
2014 · its alternatives →
19
Form 4▲4
Fastest, most accurate industrial desktop 3D printer
2024 · formlabs.com · its alternatives →
20
MakePrintable▲108
Automagically turn 3D models into printable objects
2017 · makeprintable.com · its alternatives →
21
ZMorph▲88
A multi-fab 3D printer that enables fast product prototyping
2015 · zmorph3d.com · its alternatives →
22
Light Rider▲95
3D printed prototype for an electric motorcycle
2016 · lightrider.apworks.de · its alternatives →
23
Carbon3D▲6
Next generation 3D printing
2015 · carbon3d.com · its alternatives →
24
Ultimaker 2+▲74
3D Printer of your dreams
2016 · ultimaker.com · its alternatives →

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