Best Online 3D Printing Services for One-Off Parts (2026)
Six services that print from your file, against ours: what each makes, whether it prices before you sign up, its minimum, and what a real part costs at your door.
Online 3D printing services all start the same way, with a file upload, and then go in different directions. Some are one factory, some are marketplaces of hundreds, some do metal and machining as well as plastic. For one part or a few, the questions that decide it are short: does the service make this kind of part, will it show a price before you sign up, is there a minimum, and what does it cost at your door. Tell the panel what you are printing.
What are you printing?
About this big
Like our phone stand: 72 g, 94 min.
How many
Ship to
PrintPort3D Parts
$12.23at your door
One phone stand in PLA: $6.16. USPS to Dallas: $6.07.
- Price from your file in seconds, before you sign up
- No minimum quantity
- Ships in 3–7 business days, then about 4 days in the post
- PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU and carbon-fibre PETG
Craftcloud
Compares quotes from more than 150 print services worldwide.
No minimum order · No registration needed to see quotes · Ships from the service you pick
Xometry
A US manufacturing marketplace: 3D printing, CNC and more, in over 60 metals and plastics.
No minimum order for most services · Quote and lead time within seconds of upload
Protolabs Network
Formerly Hubs. Industrial 3D printing, CNC and moulding through partner factories.
FDM lead times from 1 business day
JLC3DP
A print factory with very low starting prices; orders to the US arrive as imports.
FDM from $1.00 a part, 3-day build · Delivered direct from its own factory
US import fees are collected up front on plastic parts: 40% of their value, on top of the price.
Shapeways
Twelve additive technologies and over 90 materials, plastics to metals.
No minimum order quantity
Treatstock
A marketplace of independent manufacturers who quote your file.
Instant quote, then pick a supplier · Buyer protection on orders
Our price: real parts sliced on our production profile, priced live through the checkout’s own pricing pass; USPS quotes from 2026-10-02. The other services publish no price lists, so their terms are quoted from their own pages, read 2026-10-25. We picked the questions and we are on the list; if a fact about another service is wrong, tell us at support@printport3d.com.
How to choose
Plastic part, one or a few, shipped in the US: send it to us. Metal, resin or nylon: one of the marketplaces.
WhyEvery service here takes a file and returns a quote. What separates them is the process, the minimum and where the part is made.
PrintPort3D Parts
- What we print
- FDM plastic parts on Bambu Lab printers: PLA in six finishes, PETG, carbon-fibre PETG, ABS, ASA and TPU, up to 255 mm on the longest side.
- The price
- Sliced from your file on the printers’ own profile, so the weight, time and price are measured, not estimated. You see it in seconds, before you make an account.
- Minimums
- None on quantity. Every order is at least $5 before postage.
- At your door
- A 72 g phone stand is $6.16, plus $6.07 by USPS to Dallas: $12.23. It ships in 3 to 7 business days, tracked.
- Quantity
- Copies of one part come off the labour, up to 30% from the tenth, and one order takes up to 500 parts.
Start on our online 3D printing service. For what one part costs against fifty, see 3D printing with no minimum.
The others, and what each is for
- Craftcloud
- A marketplace comparing quotes from over 150 manufacturing partners worldwide, with no minimum order and no registration to see prices. For processes beyond FDM, and comparing many shops at once. Craftcloud against us, side by side.
- Xometry
- A US manufacturing marketplace: 3D printing in over 60 metals and plastics, plus CNC and more, quoted within seconds. No minimum order for most of its services.
- Protolabs Network
- Formerly Hubs: industrial 3D printing, CNC and moulding through partner factories, with FDM lead times from one business day.
- JLC3DP
- A print factory with FDM from $1.00 a part and a 3-day build. Orders to the US arrive as imports, and it collects a 40% import fee on plastic parts up front.
- Shapeways
- Over 90 materials and finishes across twelve additive technologies, from plastics to metals, with no minimum order quantity.
- Treatstock
- A marketplace of independent manufacturers who quote your file, with buyer protection on orders.
Selling the part rather than using it? The 3D print fulfilment companies print and ship to your customers.
Before you upload anywhere
- Check the file
- Units in millimetres, a closed surface, a size that fits. Check your STL in the browser first.
- Measure the fit
- If it has to fit something, measure it and draw the hole for the fit you want.
- Compare at the door
- A part price is half the answer. Compare with postage, import fees and any order minimum included.
FAQ
For an FDM plastic part shipped in the US, PrintPort3D Parts: the price per part comes from your sliced file in seconds, before you sign up, with no quantity minimum, a $5 order minimum, and shipping in 3 to 7 business days.
A marketplace that covers those processes: Craftcloud, Xometry, Protolabs Network and Shapeways all quote metal and resin. We print FDM plastics.
Most have no quantity minimum. Some set a money minimum: ours is $5 an order before postage.
With us, a 72 g PLA phone stand is $6.16 plus postage; a small clip or hook comes to the $5 order minimum. The price for your own file appears in seconds on the parts page.
Our orders ship in 3 to 7 business days, then a few days by USPS. Other services publish their own lead times, from one business day for FDM at Protolabs Network to a 3-day build at JLC3DP before shipping.
A plastic part, priced before you sign up.
Drop the file into the parts page: sliced on the printers’ own profile, priced per part in seconds, shipped in 3 to 7 business days.
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