Bambu Lab reports 310,000 MakerLab users, 2.6M models in 2025, 400k lithophanes

310,000 people used MakerLab by the end of 2025 and generated 2.6 million original models, a pace Bambu Lab framed as "equivalent to more than 7,000 new designs per day." The company also identified its lithophane generator as the most widely used function, producing around 400,000 models, meaning "roughly one out of every six generated models on MakerLab is a lithophane."

Bambu Lab published the usage statistics on its WeChat channels summarizing activity during 2025 across MakerWorld and MakerLab, and the company notes its "official statistics cover print jobs initiated through its cloud system by users in China." That scope matters for interpreting the totals, since MakerWorld and the cloud-tracking system are the bases for the reported counts and print-volume rankings.

Platform metrics show continued familiarity-driven printing: Benchy, the small boat test file, "has held the top position in global print volume on MakerWorld for five consecutive years." MakerWorld's counting rules were clarified in its release notes, with explicit wording that "printing the customized file (either STL or 3mf) from an OpenSCAD model or the STL file of a model will also increase the print count," a change that influences how creators and profile uploaders see print-volume data.

Bambu Lab positions MakerLab as a low-barrier design tool. The company wrote that MakerLab exists because "we also felt the strong desire, especially from users who are not proficient in CAD, to create their own models. Thus, we introduced MakerLab to empower every user to craft their own unique models." MakerLab currently features "Make My Sign," "Make My Vase," and "Pixel Puzzle Maker," and the blog introduced a new "MakerLab Experiments" section with entries such as "Spaghetti Monster" to involve users earlier in R&D.

Operational and discovery changes landed alongside the metrics. A MakerWorld Release Note labeled "MakerWorld Release Note - 20240628" unveiled a Data Analytics Board with the promise: "Track key metrics like views, downloads, prints, and collects." The same release-note text announced an "Optimized Chinese search experience" with improved word segmentation and synonym matching, a homepage refresh to make MakerWorld more visually appealing, and a MakerLab update so "you will be able to embed the template file and all its assets directly into the 3MF file" for Make My Sign and Make My Vase. The release notes add that "the recommendation algorithm was greatly enhanced" and "will be gradually made available to all users in this week."

Public interest signals tracked by the company point upward: searches on Xiaohongshu rose sharply year over year with "3D printing" up 119 percent, "3D printer" up 238 percent, and "Bambu Lab" up 323 percent. With embedded-template 3MFs, analytics for creators, clarified print-count rules, and expanding experiments, Bambu Lab’s 2025 data and platform changes set the stage for more user-driven creation and discoverability into 2026.