In short
DigiFabster is a quoting and e-commerce platform for CNC, sheet metal, laser and 3D printing shops, sold on annual plans, with buyer payments, feature recognition, ITAR hosting and an AI quote agent in beta. Quotometry prices 3D printing, CNC milling and turning, laser, waterjet and plasma cutting and budgetary moulding today, with a free plan, monthly plans from €29, a price breakdown the shop can read, backtesting and versioned configurations. It does not price bent sheet metal yet and does not take payment in its widget yet.
At a glance
| DigiFabster | Quotometry | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model and entry price | Essential and Growth plans billed annually, plus payment processing fees. When we checked, the pricing page showed Essential from $335 and Growth from $720 a month outside North America ($415 and $840 inside). Enterprise on request. A Growth + Marketing package starts at $990 a month | Free plan (25 quote requests a month, one process). Starter €29, Growth €99, Pro €299 a month, or annual with two months free. Metered on quote requests; re-pricing does not count |
| Self-serve sign-up | 7-day free trial, no credit card. Custom subdomain set up through onboarding | Yes. Sign up and publish a widget without a sales call; paid plans have a 14-day trial |
| Processes priced | 3D printing (SLS, SLA, SLM, MJF, FDM and others), CNC milling and turning, 2D cutting and sheet metal. Essential covers one technology, Growth several, Enterprise all | FDM, SLA/DLP/LCD resin, SLS, MJF, metal powder bed, PolyJet and binder jetting; CNC milling and turning; laser, waterjet and plasma; budgetary injection moulding and vacuum casting. Free and Starter cover polymer printing |
| CNC and sheet metal | Yes, with feature recognition (holes, slots, pockets, threads and more) and nesting for sheet metal | CNC milling and turning from STEP (Growth plan and up); a mesh upload goes to the shop's review. Laser, waterjet and plasma cutting from DXF or SVG (Pro). Bent sheet metal is not built |
| How material and time are estimated | Geometry analysis and feature recognition, priced time-based, cost-based or both, with five complexity levels and a multiplier per machine | Slice-profile estimator: samples true cross-sections and integrates walls, skins, infill and supports per layer, without running a slicer per quote. Accuracy against real slicers is not yet published |
| Price breakdown for the shop | Not found in public sources | Every price is a tree of named lines with the inputs behind them; the shop chooses what the buyer sees |
| Test a pricing change on past quotes | Not found in public sources | Simulator re-prices recent quotes and reference parts with a draft change before you publish it (Growth plan and up) |
| Calibration to your own parts | AI pricing calibration: upload several models with your prices for 1 and 10 units and it configures machine and material settings | Fits speed and overhead coefficients to three or more parts you have already made, and shows the error before and after |
| Versioned settings with rollback | Not found in public sources | Draft, publish and roll back; every quote stays tied to the configuration version that priced it |
| Embed method | Embedded iframe, floating button or full hosted page; any of the three or all together | Native web component, with iframe and hosted quote page fallbacks; WordPress and Shopify plugins |
| Buyer pays online | Yes. DigiFabster Pay, built on Stripe: 4.99% on Essential, 1.99% on Growth and Enterprise, plus banking fees; purchase order workflows | Not in the widget yet; Stripe Connect is planned. With the WooCommerce plugin (basket) or the Shopify plugin (draft order) the buyer pays at the shop's own checkout; otherwise the shop invoices |
| Order management | Customer and order management, shipping and tax automation, sales dashboard; CRM and accounting integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books) | Order inbox with manual review and price override; orders also arrive by e-mail and signed webhook. No shipping, tax or accounting links |
| API and webhooks | Documented API for file analysis, quoting and conversion; webhook API access on Growth, full API on Enterprise | REST API with OpenAPI 3.1, idempotency keys and test mode (Growth plan and up); signed webhooks with retries over 72 hours, replay and a delivery log |
| AI features and controlled work | AI Quote Agent (beta) drafts quotes from RFQ e-mails. ITAR AWS hosting as an add-on on Growth, included on Enterprise | No AI intake. EU data region; no ITAR or CMMC handling |
Which to choose
Choose DigiFabster if
- You quote bent sheet metal as well as printing and machining, and want one storefront for all of it.
- You want the buyer to pay by card or purchase order in the same flow, today.
- You handle ITAR-controlled work and need US GovCloud hosting.
- You want RFQ e-mails turned into draft quotes by an AI agent, or threads recognised in machined parts rather than counted by the buyer.
- You want built-in shipping, tax and accounting or CRM integrations.
Choose Quotometry if
- You print, machine or cut parts and want to start on a free plan or a monthly plan with a public price.
- You want to read every line of a price and change what the buyer sees.
- You want to test a rate change against recent quotes before it goes live, and roll back if it is wrong.
- You want orders delivered to your own systems by signed webhooks with retries and replay.
- You build on WordPress or Shopify and want a plugin rather than an iframe.
Where DigiFabster is stronger
DigiFabster covers more of the shop. Its plans span 3D printing, CNC milling and turning, and 2D cutting and sheet metal, so a business that both prints and machines can run one storefront. For machined and sheet parts it recognises features such as holes, slots, pockets and threads, and prices them time-based, cost-based or both.
It takes money. DigiFabster Pay, built on Stripe, lets the buyer pay in the checkout, with purchase order workflows beside it. Shipping and tax automation, a sales dashboard and connections to HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Xero and Zoho Books are on the plan pages.
It serves controlled work. ITAR AWS hosting is an add-on on Growth and included on Enterprise. Quotometry has an EU data region and does not handle ITAR or CMMC work.
It has an AI Quote Agent in beta that reads RFQ e-mails and drafts a quote for the shop to review, and an AI pricing calibration that sets machine and material values from example parts and prices.
Where Quotometry is stronger
Quotometry is built for the shop that wants to see inside the price. Every quote is a tree of named lines, and the shop decides how much the buyer sees. A draft change to rates or rules can be run against recent quotes and reference parts before it is published, and a published configuration can be rolled back. Calibration fits the estimator’s speed and overhead coefficients to parts the shop has already made and reports the error.
For SLS and MJF, price comes from the part’s share of a real build rather than a flat per-part rate. Orders reach the shop by signed webhook with retries and replay, by e-mail, and in an inbox with manual review and price override. The widget is a native web component, with an iframe and a hosted quote page as fallbacks, and there are WordPress and Shopify plugins.
Sign-up is self-serve, with a free plan and monthly billing.
Pricing compared
DigiFabster bills annually. When we checked, its pricing page showed Essential from $335 a month and Growth from $720 a month to visitors outside North America, and $415 and $840 to visitors inside it. Enterprise is priced on request. Payments add 4.99% on Essential or 1.99% on Growth and Enterprise, plus banking fees.
Quotometry’s plans are Free, Starter at €29, Growth at €99 and Pro at €299 a month, with annual billing at ten months’ price. The measure is the quote request: the first price of a file for a buyer. Re-pricing as the buyer changes material or quantity is not counted. Backtesting and API access start on Growth. See the pricing page for every quota.
The currencies differ and we have not converted them.
Switching
- Run both side by side on a test page first. Quote the same small part, large part and batch in each, with your real materials and rates, and compare the totals line by line.
- Quotometry starts from catalogue presets for common printers and materials. You enter your own rates; there is no importer for DigiFabster settings.
- If you rely on DigiFabster Pay, plan how you will take payment: with Quotometry today you invoice, or the WooCommerce or Shopify plugin sends the buyer to your own store’s checkout.
- If you also quote bent sheet metal, keep that on DigiFabster for now.
- Point your back office at Quotometry’s order webhooks before you move the widget on your live site.
Sources
Every statement about DigiFabster on this page comes from these public pages, checked on the date in the byline. Something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
- DigiFabster: home page
- DigiFabster: pricing (plans, technologies per plan, processing fees, Growth + Marketing package)
- DigiFabster: instant quoting solution (pricing methods, feature recognition, AI pricing calibration)
- DigiFabster help: install widget page guide (iframe, floating button, full page)
- DigiFabster help: DigiFabster Pay FAQ (Stripe, fees by plan)
- DigiFabster: self checkout (payment methods, purchase orders)
- DigiFabster: integrations
- DigiFabster: custom workflow and API
- 3D Printing Industry: DigiFabster's AI quote agent for RFQs (2 December 2024)
Questions people ask
Is Quotometry a DigiFabster alternative?
For a shop that prints, machines or cuts flat parts, yes: both give the buyer an instant price from the shop's own rates. For a shop that also bends sheet metal, not yet, because Quotometry does not price bent sheet work today. DigiFabster also takes the buyer's payment, which Quotometry's widget does not do yet.
Which costs less, DigiFabster or Quotometry?
On list prices, Quotometry's paid plans start at €29 a month billed monthly, and there is a free plan. DigiFabster's pricing page showed plans from $335 a month billed annually when we checked, plus a percentage on payments. Compare the plan you would actually need, including quote volume, users and processing fees.
Can I see how a price was calculated in each product?
Quotometry shows every price as a tree of named lines, such as material, machine time, labour, overhead and margin, with the inputs that produced them. We did not find a public description of how DigiFabster shows a price breakdown to the shop, so ask for a demonstration on one of your own parts.
Quotometry prices every part from your own machines and rates, on your website, in seconds.