Creality K1 Max vs Bambu Lab X1-Carbon: spec comparison
Creality K1 Max vs Bambu Lab X1-Carbon spec comparison: 300 mm vs 256 mm build volume, speed claims, sensors, chamber rating, firmware source and launch price.
Creality K1 Max
Made by Creality · Shipping · Released Jul 2023
Overview
- Status
- Shipping
- Released
- Jul 2023
- Launch price
- $899
- Announced
- Apr 2023
Build
- Build volume
- 300 × 300 × 300 mm
- Enclosure
- Enclosed (passive)
- Air filtration
- Activated carbon
Temperatures
- Max chamber temp
- —
- Max hotend temp
- 300 °C
- Max bed temp
- 120 °C
Motion
- Motion system
- CoreXY
- Max speed (claimed)
- 600 mm/s
- Max acceleration (claimed)
- 20,000 mm/s²
- Max volumetric flow (claimed)
- 32 mm³/s
Toolhead
- Extruder
- Direct drive
- Stock nozzle
- 0.4 mm hardened steel
- Nozzles
- 1
- Multi-material
- Creality CFS (optional K1 Series CFS upgrade kit)
Features
- Bed leveling
- Automatic
- Features
- Filament runout sensor, Camera, Lidar, Input shaping, Air filtration, Power-loss recovery, AI failure detection
- Firmware
- Creality OS (Klipper-based) (open source)
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB, Cloud
- Laser module
- None offered
Speed, acceleration and flow figures are the manufacturer's claims. A dash means the manufacturer does not publish the value.
Compared with
Sources
Last verified
- Creality, K1 Max product page (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality Wiki, K1 Max user manual, device specifications (basic parameters) (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality Store, K1 Max product page (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality Wiki, K1 Series CFS Upgrade Accessory Kit (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality on GitHub, K1_Series_Klipper firmware source (GPL-3.0) (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- 3DPrint.com, Creality begins selling K1 Max at lower price (2023-07-10) (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Tom's Hardware, Creality K1 Max review (2023-10-31) (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality Blog, Creality unveils K1 series and celebrates 9th anniversary (2023-04-09) (accessed Sep 29, 2026)
- Creality Store, K1 Max Activated Carbon Air Filter (accessed Sep 29, 2026)