Snapmaker U1 Hits Retail April 10 – Price to Jump to $899
Snapmaker has confirmed April 10, 2026, as the date its U1 toolchanger will be available in stock across global warehouses, marking the printer's official transition from crowdfunded preorder to an in-stock, ready-to-ship product.
If you’re still on the fence, you have two and a half weeks until the printer’s price ticks up to $899 – a $50 jump on today’s preorder price of $849. In a blog post shared with All3DP ahead of publication, the company states the printer finally reaching warehouses around the world “means faster delivery, easier access, and a smoother purchasing experience, no matter where you are.”
For those unaware of the printer and what it is, the Snapmaker U1 is a toolchanger. It has four independent toolheads which the printer can pick up and put down as it requires, allowing for clean, near-purgeless swapping of materials without the typical wastage associated with single-nozzle style multicolor printers.
Snapmaker developed its own “SnapSwap” mechanism to help the printer make quick tool changes – around five seconds. The reality of movements around the change push and pull the actual time to change around some, but the printer is, by and large, quick.
Around this, the printer is the expected CoreXY type machine. As we found when we tested it, there are plenty of neat little touches that make it a decent daily driver for working with multiple filaments. The build volume is 270 × 270 × 270 mm, making it moderately larger than current multicolor systems like the Bambu Lab P2S, or Prusa’s Core One+.
But Wait, There’s More
Alongside the retail date, Snapmaker is rolling out a few ecosystem additions. Updates to Snapmaker Orca and the Snapmaker App will bundle 30 print-ready multicolor models from new and well-known designers like Flexi Factory, MatMire Makes, and Raki-Box, alongside in-house creators, directly into the printer’s software. It’s a feature the company likens to a “mini model repository” inside the printing experience. Snapmaker is conspicuous among top 3D printer brands for its lack of a dedicated model repository. Offering an alternate, curated experience to showcase what the printer can do well makes a lot of sense.
On the materials side, Snapmaker is expanding its RFID-tagged filament lineup with 15 new colors across its SnapSpeed PLA and Matte PLA ranges. Available now, these materials, as with previous Snapmaker material releases, feature RFID tags. This lets the U1 automatically detect these spools and log the materials as available in the software when you prepare a job.
As the retail release barrels into view, we’re reminded of the company’s commitment to release its modified Klipper firmware source code, something it’s obliged to do under Klipper’s licensing terms. When asked about this in relation to the printer coming into stock we were told that the plan is “to publish by the end of March as originally promised.” Other releases by other companies in recent years have bungled this, so the opportunity is there for Snapmaker to maintain some positive momentum.
The Snapmaker U1 ($849) is still available to preorder from the Snapmaker webstore.
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