Creality's budget-priced Ender-3 S1 is easy to assemble and can produce jumbo objects, but uneven print quality and cumbersome leveling temper our enthusiasm for this open-frame 3D printer.
The Creality Ender-5 Pro is an open-frame 3D printer that you build from a kit. It produces high-quality prints and has a larger build volume than you might expect for its size, but its manual print-bed leveling can be cumbersome.
Hands-on tweaking defines Creality's budget-price Ender-3 V2, an open-frame 3D printer that you build from a kit. It produces generally above-par prints, but its print bed can be tricky to keep leveled.
Anycubic's modestly priced Vyper whips up large 3D prints on its open-frame design, and provides automatic print-bed leveling. Just know that some minor assembly is required and printed objects may require a bit of cleanup.