You read online about affordable 3D printers made by Anet. Anet is a Chinese 3D printing company which manufacturers 3D printers and 3D filaments. You decided to buy an Anet printer, but that’s when the real challenge begins. There are quite a few of them and all are labeled differently, so I thought it was fitting to do an Anet 3d printer comparison.

Worry no more.

Frustrated with the lack of information and good side by side comparison table, I spent a few hours researching the differences between Anet printers – A8, A6, A3 and A2. In this brief article, I will do a comparison to show you what’s the difference between all Anet 3d printers.

Before we begin, please understand that the information gathered here is based on an online research. I had help from Anet Support Groups on Facebook, Anet printer owners as well as help from the Anet support team.

Just to clear things up, I do not own all of these printers, hence I will not be able to compare the printing quality and other similar things, though I firmly believe that because of the similarity in hardware and software all of these can print equality. You will notice that most of the differences are of functional, cosmetics and design nature.

One more thing which confuses people quite a lot are the printers name, which quite honestly make no sense. Printers were released in this order :

Anet A8 Anet A6 Anet A3 Anet A2

Most of the people, logically assume, that the higher number in the name means newer model. Obviously it’s not. It works quite the opposite. Furthermore, some of the models have additional variations. I will clarify those as well.

Anet A8 vs A6 vs A3 vs A2 comparison table

The best way to compare these printers is in a table. So I made one.