Creality K1C
Compact enclosed CoreXY for hobbyists who want fast prints and carbon-fiber filament support in a small footprint.
$499typical US price
Bundles and current deals
Sold as "K1C 2025": $559 list, $499 on sale at US store (Oct 2026). Optional CFS-C add-on (single unit, 4 colors) sold separately.
- Build volume
- 12.1litres
- Top speed
- 600mm/s
- Max colours
- 4
- Frame
- Enclosed
Will Wright’s take
Hard to recommend
“Good in 2024, but the K2 does more for less now.”
Fast, enclosed and ready for carbon-fibre filament, but the 22 cm bed is small and multi-colour tops out at four with an add-on. At $499 I'd look at the K2 or a P2S first.
Buy the K1C if
Someone who finds it heavily discounted
Skip it if
You're paying full price
How it stacks up
Against 41 other filament printers
Price$499#26 of 42, most expensive first
Build volume12.1 L#37 of 42
Top speed600 mm/s#14 of 37
Hotend temperature300 °C#24 of 42
Strengths and drawbacks
What it does well
- Hardened steel nozzle handles CF filaments
- Enclosed with carbon filter
- Fast 600 mm/s rated speed
Worth knowing
- Small 220 mm build plate
- Multicolor needs the separate CFS-C (max 4 colors)
- No active chamber heating
Full specifications
From Creality, checked October 30, 2026Every number, in one place
- Price
- $499
- Released
- January 2024
- Technology
- Filament (FDM)
- Motion system
- CoreXY
- Build volume
- 220 × 220 × 250 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
- 12.4 kg
- Materials
- PLA, TPU 95A, PETG, ABS, ASA, PLA-CF, PA-CF
- Features
- auto bed leveling (strain gauge), AI camera (spaghetti/foreign-object detection), hardened steel nozzle, activated carbon filter, filament runout sensor, power-loss recovery, Wi-Fi/LAN, 4.3-inch touchscreen
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