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Free and open source under the AGPL. Some cloud features expect a Bambu Lab account, but local printing does not.

• Multi-material painting with transition filament flushed into infill rather than a purge tower
• Remote control and monitoring of a networked printer from the slicer
• Reads STEP files and emits arc moves (G2/G3), plus assembly and explosion views
• Multiple build plate management, auto-arrange and auto-orient

• Generates its own calibration test prints instead of making you find models
• Fine-grained top-surface settings including only-one-perimeter-on-top
• Better thin-wall handling, anchored into the print rather than left loose
• Handles FFF G-code and masked SLA PNG layers from one program

• Built around Bambu Lab hardware; other printers need profiles set up by hand
• Cloud features push you towards a Bambu account
• Linux support is AppImages for Ubuntu and Fedora plus a Flatpak, not native packages
• Heavier and busier than PrusaSlicer, which it forked from

• The author states the Linux and macOS builds are compiled but not tested by them
• The last tagged stable release is from 2024, with newer work in nightly builds
• The extra settings make an already dense interface denser
• A single-maintainer fork tracking PrusaSlicer upstream

• github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio

• github.com/supermerill/SuperSlicer