For business
For print farms, production shops and teams where an outage costs more than a support contract.
Starts October 2026 No seat or printer fees Replies from the maintainer
Bambuddy is licensed under the AGPL-3.0. If you run it inside your own business — one printer or an entire floor of them — you owe us nothing. No seat count, no per-printer fee, no licence to buy. That is not a trial or a loophole; it is the licence, and it is not going to change.
So this page is not asking you to pay for permission. It is offering the things an open-source licence cannot give you: someone accountable when a print farm stops printing, a licence that covers redistribution if you need one, and time from the person who wrote the software.
Three things the licence cannot give you. Everything else stays free.
A named contact and an agreed response time, instead of a queue position behind everyone else's GitHub issue.
Annual or per-incident, invoiced with VAT. From October 2026.
Only relevant if you intend to redistribute Bambuddy — ship it on an appliance, resell it, or build it into a product you hand to customers. The AGPL's copyleft terms would otherwise apply to what you ship.
If you only run it internally, you do not need this.
Getting a large fleet onto Bambuddy cleanly, or building the part of it that your operation needs and the community version does not have.
Scoped and quoted per project. Available from October 2026.
A fair question when the vendor is one person. Here is what is checkable.
Bambuddy runs in home workshops, university print rooms, makerspaces and production shops. It is not a product being trialled on you — the code you would depend on is the code all of them already run.
Hackaday, the Tailscale blog, MakeUseOf, XDA-Developers, How-To Geek, Fabbaloo, Open Source For You, It's FOSS and Igor's Lab, among others.
Every line of the software is public and AGPL-licensed, the release history is public, and there is a live demo you can use without installing anything or telling us who you are.
Bambuddy is self-hosted, and it runs perfectly well with no outbound connectivity at all. For design studios, labs and anyone under an NDA, that is usually the whole question — and it is answered by where the software runs, not by a policy document.
One caveat worth hearing before you ask, rather than after: whether a printer talks to Bambu Lab's cloud is a setting on the printer, not something Bambuddy controls. Bambuddy works fully in LAN-only mode, but putting your printers there is a change you make on the machines themselves.
Tell us how many printers you run and what you need. You will get a reply from the person who maintains the software, not a sales team — because there isn't one. Usually within a working day, and it will be an actual answer rather than a request to book a call.
Prefer email? business@bambuddy.cool · Just want to support the project instead? See the sponsor tiers.