Yantra Bhavan vs Obico
Obico watches the print. We decide what prints next, on which machine.
Open-source AI that watches your print and stops it when it fails — one printer at a time, with no queue at all.
The short version
Obico does one thing extremely well: it watches the print through a camera and catches spaghetti before it becomes a kilogram of waste.
It is AGPL-licensed and can be self-hosted for nothing, or used as a hosted service from $6.99 a month.
It is not a farm tool — no queue, no teams, no orders — and it is the clearest example of a capability we do not have.
Side by side
| Yantra Bhavan | Obico | |
|---|---|---|
| Processes managed | Eight processes — 3D printing, CNC milling and turning, laser and plasma cutting, waterjet, drag knife, and wire EDM — each with its own operation template. | 3D printers, through OctoPrint or Klipper. |
| Watching the print | Nothing equivalent. The operator confirms the outcome and the good count when the job is done. | AI that detects a failing print from the camera and can pause it. |
| Queue | One queue across the whole shop. The dispatcher assigns work to a unit by capability and load, and can release the next job automatically once a part is cleared. | Not stated on their site |
| Hosting and cost | Hosted by us, billed per seat in INR as part of a partner plan. | Self-hostable and open source under the AGPL, or hosted from $6.99 a month. |
These are complements, not alternatives
Obico answers "is this print going wrong". Production Floor answers "what should run next, on which machine, for which order, and did it pass". A shop can reasonably run both, and if you had to choose only one and your floor is printers, the one that saves you filament tonight is easier to justify than the one that saves you a spreadsheet.
The gap on our side, stated once and clearly
We do not watch prints and we are not going to imply otherwise. Our device agent has been validated against simulators rather than against a floor of physical machines, and camera-based detection is not in the product at all. Anything you read on our pages about the queue, the dispatcher or the operator loop stops at the moment the machine starts moving.
Pick Yantra Bhavan when
You need the work planned and routed across a shop rather than one print watched closely.
Pick Obico when
You want failed prints caught automatically, and you want the option to run that yourself. This is the single capability most worth having in this whole category and we do not offer any version of it.
Questions we get asked
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