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Protolabs offers a wide array of manufacturing capabilities but lacks flexibility in their accepted designs, often leaving customers to conform to their limitations.

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Fast Radius offers all of the services, quality, and lead times of other on demand manufacturers but only through their in-house machining – which are often limited by equipment and workforce constraints.

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Xometry follows a marketplace manufacturing model which can offer a vast number of services, but suffers from a lack of oversight, improper partner training, and limited attention to detail and accuracy.

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Fathom relies on it’s own set of machinery and workforce for production fulfillment, which limits the scope of their technological capabilities and production capacity.

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Shapeways offers most capabilities of typical on demand manufacturers, but only their 3D printing offering is the fully automated service from upload to fulfillment.

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Shapeways produces 3D printed parts with its own finite, limited set of equipment and workforce. This is also the only service they offer that is automated from upload to fulfillment – which is done through a third party platform.