FDM bedslinger~$329Creality · released 2025
Creality Hi
Creality's attempt at an A1 competitor puts a 260 × 260 × 300 mm bed — usefully taller than the 256 mm cubes it is aimed at — on an open bed-slinger frame and hangs the CFS filament system off the side for multi-colour work. The CFS holds four spools with RFID recognition and cascades to four units for sixteen colours, which on paper matches anything Bambu offers. In practice the extra 44 mm of Z is the reason to choose it: tall single-piece prints are exactly what a bed-slinger at this price is for, and 300 mm beats every 256 mm rival here. The rest is conventional — 300 °C hotend, 100 °C bed, Klipper, strain-gauge levelling, a camera with a privacy cap and no enclosure. It does not undercut that machine, though: as a multi-colour combo the Hi costs more than an A1 Combo.
- Approx. price
- ~$329
- Build volume
- 20.3 L
- Per litre
- $16
- True multi-material price
- ~$469
Real speed ceiling
Not published
Creality does not publish a volumetric flow rate for the Hi, so its 500 mm/s claim cannot be checked against what the hotend can actually melt. We do not estimate one.
Best forTall single-piece prints and multi-colour work on an open-frame budget.
Specifications
- Build volume
- 260 × 260 × 300 mm
- Volume
- 20.3 L
- Motion
- bedslinger
- Max speed
- 500 mm/s
- Acceleration
- 12,000 mm/s²
- Max flow
- Not published
- Hotend max temp
- 300 °C
- Bed max temp
- 100 °C
- Enclosure
- Open frame
- Extruder
- direct drive
- Auto level
- strain-gauge
- Hardened nozzle
- Yes, as standard
Materials, control and build
- Multi-material
- CFS, 4 slots
- True multi-material price
- ~$469 (+~$140)
- Firmware
- Klipper
- Cloud
- Optional
- Camera
- Yes
- Assembly
- Pre-assembled
- Weight
- 9.2 kg
- Footprint
- 409 × 392 × 477 mm
Features
- 260 × 260 × 300 mm — taller than the 256 mm cubes it competes with
- CFS four-spool filament system with RFID, cascading to 16 colours
- 300 °C hotend and Klipper firmware with input shaping
- Strain-gauge levelling with automatic Z offset
- 500 mm/s claimed at 12,000 mm/s²
What it does well
- 300 mm of height beats every 256 mm cube in this price bracket, which is the whole point of a bed-slinger
- CFS matches the four-spool, sixteen-colour capability of much pricier ecosystems
- Klipper with input shaping at a genuinely low price
- Camera with a privacy cap included for monitoring print jobs
Where it gives ground
- No enclosure and a 100 °C bed, so the 300 °C hotend is under-used
- No published flow rate to check the 500 mm/s claim against
- A big bed slinging in Y at 12,000 mm/s² is a demanding combination for ringing
The points above are read off published specifications, not from owner reports.
What owners report
No owner discussion has been collected for the Creality Hi yet. Everything on this page comes from the manufacturer’s published specifications and the sources listed under how we compare. We would rather say so than write sentiment we have not read.
