Run the Farm,
Not the Spreadsheet.
Five printers in a garage or five hundred across three buildings — mixed brands, one queue, one dashboard. You don’t have to call yourself an enterprise to run like one.
Free to start · Print Farm plan from $79/year
Mixed Fleets Welcome.
Farms aren’t brand loyal. You buy whatever prints fastest per dollar this quarter, which is why most floors end up running four logos at once. Polar Cloud treats that as normal — every machine below lands in the same fleet view, the same queue, and the same reports.
Printers join over a native integration, the Polar3D Agent, the Bridge, or a plugin — whichever your hardware supports. See connection options.
What Running a Farm Actually Takes.
Not features for a factory. The specific things that break when printer number six arrives.
Smart Send
Store verified G-code once, then send a job to the next available machine instead of slicing the same file fifty times. Queue depth stops being a manual problem.
One dashboard for the whole floor
Live status, progress, and camera feeds for every printer in the fleet — regardless of brand — on a single screen instead of ten vendor apps.
Job costing
Track material and machine time per job so you can quote work from real numbers rather than a guess, and see which machines actually earn their footprint.
Queues that survive a busy week
Prioritize rush orders, requeue failed prints, and keep a full history of what ran where — instead of managing the floor from a spreadsheet and sticky notes.
Remote access without holes in your network
Printers connect outbound over HTTPS. No port forwarding, no static IPs, nothing inbound to expose — whether the farm is in a garage, a unit, or three locations.
An API when you outgrow clicking
Trigger jobs from your storefront or order system and log usage back out. Connect Shopify, an ERP, or something you wrote yourself.
Local Production, at Farm Scale.
Entry-level machines got fast and cheap enough that a room full of them is now a legitimate manufacturing unit. Farms are absorbing work that used to go offshore — short runs, spare parts, custom orders, jigs and fixtures — and winning it on lead time rather than unit cost.
That model only holds if the floor runs unattended and you know your real cost per part. Both are software problems, not hardware problems, and they are the two Polar Cloud is built to solve.
Start Where You Are.
You don’t need a procurement process to try this. Plans scale with the fleet, and you can move up whenever the floor does.
Free
Connect a printer, slice in the cloud, and monitor remotely. No card, no trial clock.
Print Farm
Covers two printers. Add machines as you buy them at $40 per printer per year, up to five — a fully loaded five-machine farm runs $199/year.
See full pricingMore than five
Five is where the standard plan tops out today. Past that we work with farms case by case rather than pushing you into a plan that doesn’t fit.
Tell us your fleet sizeNo procurement process, no minimum fleet, no annual contract to start. Scale the plan when the floor scales, not before.
Print Farm FAQ.
- Can I mix printer brands in one farm?
- Yes. Mixed fleets are the norm rather than the exception. Polar Cloud manages Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, Anycubic, Flashforge, Prusa, Qidi, Voron, and Snapmaker machines side by side, plus anything running OctoPrint or Klipper, in a single queue and dashboard.
- How much does print farm software cost?
- Polar Cloud starts free for a single printer. The Print Farm plan is $79 per year and covers two printers, with additional machines at $40 per printer per year up to five printers — so a fully loaded five-printer farm is $199 per year. Farms running more than five machines are handled case by case; contact us with your fleet size.
- Do I need an enterprise plan to run a print farm?
- No. Most small and mid-size farms run on the standard Print Farm plan rather than an enterprise agreement. Enterprise plans exist for production lines and service bureaus that need organization-wide administration, contracting, invoicing, and ERP integration — but a farm that just needs one queue and one dashboard does not need to start there.
- How do I connect Bambu Lab printers to a print farm?
- Bambu Lab machines connect through the Polar3D Agent or the Polar3D Bridge, which run alongside your printers and link them to the cloud over an outbound HTTPS connection. No port forwarding or inbound firewall rules are required.
- How do I track cost per print across the farm?
- Polar Cloud records material usage and machine time per job, so you can see cost per print, per machine, and per customer order, and quote new work from actual production data instead of estimates.
- Can Polar Cloud run a farm across more than one location?
- Yes. Printers connect outbound to the cloud, so machines in different buildings, sites, or cities appear in the same fleet view and share the same queue and reporting.
Put the Whole Floor on One Screen.
Connect your first printer in a few minutes. Add the rest whenever you’re ready.
Running a production line or service bureau with contracting and ERP requirements? See enterprise options.