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Creality Ender-5 Max vs Formlabs Form 4L

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Creality Ender-5 Max vs Formlabs Form 4L — documented properties and sources
Property	Creality Ender-5 MaxCOREXY	Formlabs Form 4LRESIN
Identity
Brand	Creality	Formlabs
Class	COREXY	RESIN
Identity & Market
Manufacturer & exact marketed model name (verify the exact product identity first)	Creality Ender-5 Max[1]	Formlabs Form 4L[2]
Street price (USD; dated snapshot per entry)	$749.00 on store.creality.com, Aug 2026[3]	Not documented
Variants & sibling models — and how to tell them apart (spec-contamination risk)	A cube-frame CoreXY machine where the bed drops in Z - Creality itself calls the class "bed droppers". Do not read Ender-3 V3 figures across: this is a 400 mm cube at 700 mm/s claimed, on a different frame entirely. An optional enclosure is sold for engineering filaments[1]	Same Low Force Display engine as the Form 4 but a different machine on every physical figure: 353 x 196 x 350 mm vs 200 x 125 x 210, 46 um vs 50 um pixels, 58.5 kg vs 18.3 kg, 900 W vs 480 W, two resin cartridges vs one. Formlabs lists Basic, Premium and Complete packages, whose prices are not printer-only prices, and no printer-only USD figure was found on a live listing[2]
Physical & Frame
Build volume X×Y×Z (mm) — advertised vs actually usable	400 x 400 x 400 mm[1]	353 x 196 x 350 mm (Formlabs quotes 24.2 litres)[2]
Machine footprint (mm) & clearance needed (cable/spool overhang)	Not documented	664 x 528 x 794 mm[2]
Net weight (kg)	Not documented	58.5 kg[2]
Enclosure: open / enclosed; panel material; door/lid	Open frame as sold; Creality offers an optional enclosure to raise ambient temperature for engineering filaments[1]	Enclosed cabinet with a UV-blocking cover. Operating temperature 18-28 C[2]
Kinematics & Motion Hardware
Kinematics (bedslinger i3 / CoreXY / other)	CoreXY on a rigid all-metal frame, with the bed moving in Z (Creality's own term is a "bed dropper")[1]	Masked stereolithography (MSLA) with the Low Force Display engine; straight-lift peel[2]
X-axis guide type (rods / linear rails / V-wheels; size)	Precise linear rail on the X axis[1]	Not documented
Z-axis: leadscrew count & type, sync mechanism, anti-backlash	Z axis assisted by two linear rods[1]	Not documented
Stepper motors (frame size, step angle, brand if known)	42-76 stepper motors on both the X and Y axes[1]	Not documented
Speed & Acceleration
Max print speed (claimed, mm/s)	700 mm/s max printing speed (Creality Lab claim, with Hyper Series filament recommended for quality at speed); the page also quotes 500 mm/s in the same block, so the two figures need care[1]	Not documented
Max acceleration (claimed, mm/s²)	20000 mm/s2 max acceleration (Creality Lab claim)[1]	Not documented
Extruder
Type (direct drive / bowden) & design name	Direct-drive extruder with dual tempered gears, which Creality says passed 500 hours of continuous-extrusion durability testing[1]	Not documented
Leveling & Z-Offset
Auto bed leveling: probe technology (inductive / strain gauge / load cell / touch probe)	64-point fully automatic bed levelling[1]	Not documented
Electronics & Power
Input voltage (110/220 V, switch or auto)	Not documented	100-240 VAC, 9 A, 50/60 Hz, 900 W[2]
Total rated power draw	Not documented	900 W[2]
Firmware & Openness
Firmware base & current version (Klipper fork / Marlin fork / proprietary)	Not documented	Proprietary; print preparation is PreForm[2]
Connectivity, UI & Camera
Display: size, type, touch?	Not documented	7-inch interactive touchscreen, 1280 x 800 (control panel — not the masking LCD, see W1)[2]
WiFi (band/standard), Ethernet, USB ports, SD/flash-drive	WLAN multi-printer management for print farms, with a tri-colour indicator light[1]	Dual-band Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C 2.0[2]
Materials Support
Officially supported filament list	Not documented	Formlabs resin range as for the Form 4; biocompatible materials require a B-series machine[2]
Reliability, Support & Ecosystem
Warranty length & support reputation (evidence, not vibes)	Creality's US store states "Up to 12-Month Warranty", a 14-day return and refund window and "Lifetime Customer Support" on its printer product pages. The "up to" wording means the term is not uniform across parts[4]	Not documented
Independently Measured Performance
Dimensional accuracy measurements (third-party, with numbers)	Not documented	XY dimensional tolerance +/-0.15% — a manufacturer specification[2]
Resin & MSLA
Masking LCD	Not documented	Low Force Display masking LCD with a 46 um pixel size. Formlabs does not publish the screen diagonal or pixel count[2]
Light source	Not documented	Backlight unit with uniform-wavelength LEDs behind collimating lenses, with integrated cooling[2]
Layer height range	Not documented	25-200 um[2]
Resin vat & feeding	Not documented	Two next-generation resin cartridges. No vat capacity published[2]

Manufacturer claims, independent measurements, packages and test conditions retain their source wording. FDM linear speed and resin vertical speed use different units and are not directly comparable. Unknown values are marked “Not documented”. Prices and source dates remain historical snapshots; check the linked guide for product details. Differences highlight text, not a universal winner.

Sources for this comparison

Creality Ender-5 Max product page creality.com · 2026-08 · vendor
Formlabs resin printer technical specifications (Form 4 / 4B / 4L) formlabs.com · 2026-08 · vendor
Creality US store - Ender-5 Max 3D Printer product page (live price) store.creality.com · 2026-08 · vendor
Creality US store - K1 3D Printer product page (live price, warranty and returns banner) store.creality.com · 2026-08 · vendor