Final judgment for filament producers

Comparing all machines brought some interesting insight, but judge for yourself.

Here is a judged comparison (for raw data see below).

	Filabot	Filastruder	Extrusionbot	Filafab
Price in €	475	205	460	850
Crusher	In planning	No	No	Yes
ABS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PLA	Yes	limited	Yes	Yes
Speed cm/min	12-50/1kg in 6.6h	15-60/1kg in 12h	60-91	120
Spooling	No	Yes +120€	Yes	No
Kit/Assembled	Kit	Kit	Assembled	Assembled
Max 21	13	13	17	17

Red = 1 points; Yellow = 2 points; Green 3= points

Filabot:  Relatively high priced for its capabilities. For the same price the Extrusionbot looks much better.

Filastruder: The big plus here is the price however the specs show that this machine only covers the very basics and the PLA issue troubles me.

Extrusionbot: Has the best cost benefit ratio, combines a medium price with high extrusion speed and crusher and spooling are built in.

Filafab: Leads with some impressive speed, but is also double as expensive as all other models.

These are the raw data.

	Filabot	Filastruder	Extrusionbot	Filafab
Price in €	475	205	460	850
Crusher	In planning	No	No	Yes
ABS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PLA	Yes	limited	Yes	Yes
Speed cm/min	12-50/1kg in 6.6h	15-60/1kg in 12h	60-91/n.a.	120/n.a.
Spooling	No	Yes +120€	Yes	No
Kit/Assembled	Kit	Kit	Assembled	Assembled