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Creality K1

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Creality K1 is a Fail.

Flapen Score
33
33 / 100
Ranks 714 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −16 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£133K/yr23K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
80%top-5 click share · 2 brands · 7 sellers

Flapen Score

Creality K1 against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Creality K1 is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

33Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Creality K1 market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Creality K1 23K times last year and spent an estimated £133K. All 2 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 33 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

2.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 23K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £133K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
23K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.6%
Market size, estimated
£133Ka year
Peak month
October2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
creality k110K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £230.61.

Listings sell for £230.61 on average, from £6.28 to £470.10. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250 to 500 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £230.61 that is £0 to £23K a year per listing.

Average price
£230.61above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.28–£470.10
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250–500
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£23K
Returns
3.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 15.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #35 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 100 reviews at 4.17 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
15.4%
Average rank
#35in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.17 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
100per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
32 months

Products

Top Creality K1 products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 80% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£13K£27K£40K£53K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

2 falling

Sellers

7

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Creality98%
  • Solgar2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Creality K1 search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K1KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Creality K1 search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • creality k110K/yr
  • creality k1 max6K/yr
  • k1 max4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Creality K1

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Value For Money15%+0.60

break down in ways that make it not worth the money originally spent for it

Don't buy waste of money

Ease Of Use11%+2.52

Had a few problems getting it up and running

Size-Overall11%−0.11

the original blue tube does not fit anymore

The new case has a smaller diameter

Issue with tube fit

Compatibility-Overall11%−0.11

not compatible with CFS

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting11%−0.11

didnt come with clear instructions not worth the vaule I paid tho so now having to send it back

Love

Ease Of Use32%+2.52

Easy to use

Really easy to change over the filment

Ideal for Beginners

Value For Money29%+0.60

Worth every penny

Great value

For the price I don't think you can complain about what your getting

Quality-Overall23%+1.34

Good quality

Top brand creality

Great product

Functionality-Overall7%−0.06

printer is now fully functional again

Assembly/Installation3%+0.17

Great printer easy to set up

Return

3.1% Return rate 2% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall35%▆▇▅█▅█

It is not working

Print Quality17%▅▃█▄▆▅
Defective Material/Parts13%▅█▁▃▆▅
Heating7%▅▁█▃▅▂
Durability5%█▁▁█▁▃

1 year after purchasing the machine has begun to repeatedly fail

FAQ

Common Creality K1 questions

Answered from the same tracked data.