Creality K1 Max
Large-format enclosed CoreXY for makers who need 300 mm prints at high speed, often found well below list price.
$549typical US price
Bundles and current deals
Sold as "K1 Max 2025": store shows $899 list but it sells at $549 (Oct 2026). Optional CFS-C add-on (single unit, 4 colors) sold separately.
- Build volume
- 27litres
- Top speed
- 600mm/s
- Max colours
- 4
- Frame
- Enclosed
Will Wright’s take
Solid choice
“A big enclosed printer that's often on sale.”
A 30 cm cube with LiDAR and an AI camera at $549 is solid value. It's the older platform, though, and multi-colour is limited to four. The K2 Pro is the newer pick at nearly the same price.
Buy the K1 Max if
Big enclosed prints at a good price
Skip it if
You want the latest platform
How it stacks up
Against 41 other filament printers
Price$549#24 of 42, most expensive first
Build volume27 L#16 of 42
Top speed600 mm/s#17 of 37
Hotend temperature300 °C#27 of 42
Strengths and drawbacks
What it does well
- 300 mm cube build volume
- AI LiDAR and AI camera
- Frequently discounted well below list
Worth knowing
- Older platform (2023) than the K2 series
- Multicolor limited to 4 via optional CFS-C
- No active chamber heating
Full specifications
From Creality, checked October 30, 2026Every number, in one place
- Price
- $549
- Released
- July 2023
- Technology
- Filament (FDM)
- Motion system
- CoreXY
- Build volume
- 300 × 300 × 300 mm
- Top speed
- 600 mm/s
- Acceleration
- 20,000 mm/s²
- Max colours
- 4 with CFS-C (optional add-on)
- Frame
- Enclosed
- Hotend, max
- 300 °C
- Bed, max
- 100 °C
- Weight
- 18 kg
- Materials
- PLA, PETG, PET, TPU 95A, ABS, ASA, PA, PC, PLA-CF, PA-CF, PET-CF
- Features
- auto bed leveling (strain gauge), AI LiDAR first-layer inspection, AI camera, hardened steel nozzle, activated carbon filter, filament runout sensor, power-loss recovery, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, 4.3-inch touchscreen
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