What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand?

As I’m graduating college in a few weeks, I’ll be losing access to my university’s free printers and filament. I’m going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff.

Who’s your go-to for PLA and ABS/ASA filaments? Those will be my primary print jobs in any serious volume. I know our college’s club has had hella problems with random chinese brand filaments not printing consistently but I also don’t want to spend $30+ per kg for something like Prusament.

bluewing,

For PLA and PETG, I like MatterHacker, though I have been buying some Voxel PLA lately and that’s been pretty good stuff too. Voxel does run sales that get the price down to $15/$16US a kilo.

For ABS/ASA, I’m still using a the same kilo of Zyltech ABS I bought 5 or 6 years ago. And I still haven’t used 200g yet. I did dig it out this weekend to print a couple dozen custom cable clips for my boat with it though.

BastingChemina,

In France I’m buying from ArianePlast. It’s good PLA for a decent price.

I have not tried it but they also have “Eco” PLA at 13€/kg

th_in_gs,

"Jinos 3D Filament” is pretty cheap. I started using them during the pandemic when it was hard to find PETG. Seem to be a small place in North Carolina that manufactures mostly for their own use? Sometimes they take a couple of days to ship.

They sell mostly on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/382556327412

[Edit: Just re-read that you’re looking for ABS/ASA - I don’t think Jinos does those, unfortunately]

morbidcactus,

I bounced around a couple, my goal was to find stuff cheaper than prusament that also produced nice results. i really liked the stuff spool3d in Canada sells but ended up coming across matter3d as spool3d carries some of their products. They’re way cheaper than anything I can get on amazon and I found the quality up there.

Oha,
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3djake’s PLA is pretty decent from my experience

CyanFen,

Filacube’s pla 2 has never done me wrong, and it’s STRONG as hell

GrayBackgroundMusic,

Whatever is on sale 3dprintingdeals.com

JustBrian7872,

If you’re shopping in the EU, I recommend Devil Design PLA - they’re available through a couple of shops.

JustEnoughDucks,
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My favorite webshop tinytronics.nl (very little markup on their electronics unlike almost every competitor)

And they have both Azurefilm and Devil Design. I was debating on which to try. Sounds like J should go devil design

JustBrian7872,

Thanks for the tip with the shop (shipping is reasonable and electronic components are well priced)! Cannot help with Azurefilm filament as I haven’t tried it yet.

neclimdul,

Had great luck with polymaker and find they’re in the sweet spot of predictable quality and price for me.

qaz,

I’m in the EU and have been buying filament from www.123-3d.nl so far. They also have an English shop www.123-3d.co.uk.

dlatch,

My go-to is their “REAL” PLA brand. It’s good quality, is made in NL and comes on cardboard spools.

I am a bit fed up with all the shit they throw in with each order though, there’s only so many pens and stacks of post-its I need. When I remember, I add a line in the notes field to leave it out.

Dettweiler42,

I’ve been using Creality’s hyper PLA. It’s pretty good quality and my printer/slicer combo has presets that are 95% what I want (I tweak the print and bed temps as needed). I’m using an Ender 3 V3 KE for reference.

Manifish_Destiny,

Sunlu pla+ prints super well for how cheap it is.

MrQuallzin,

Tried IID Max’s PLA+ since they were always posting discounts on Reddit. I’ve stuck with them since for anything that needs color, their filament is vibrant and I’ve never had any issues. Buying in bulk you’re looking at roughly $10/kg. For my black I use Elegoo PLA. It has a nice sheen to it.

empireOfLove2,
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The bulk 10kg options look good. I might stock up on those and packrat a few colors since they dont’ really go bad

agamemnonymous,
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I do everything in black anyway, and 4 packs of Elegoo PLA are like $45. No complaints so far and $11-12/kg is hard to beat

bronxasaur,

Big big fan of Fusion filaments, especially their ABS 2.0. It’s what my Voron Trident is made of. It looks amazing and is the best ABS I’ve found to work with as of late.

Tolookah,

Microcenter’s Inland pla+ has been good to me. Microcenter used to ship it free, and they may still, but it’s been a bit since I ordered. It’s $15-20/kg. Some day I’ll use great filament and might call this stuff garbage, but I’m not there yet. The standard pla is less impressive, causes me more grief than I like.

Thrashy,
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Inland is (or was, at least) relabeled eSun filament, and they’re considered a decent brand for basic filaments. I’ve only ever used their PLA(+) but it’s always been bulletproof.

lightnsfw,

There stuff has worked well for me too.

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