Portable benchtop planers are light enough to transport to jobsites and compact enough to sit on tables, workbenches, or other flat surfaces. Also known as tabletop planers, they are dedicated planers that smooth and level boards along their length.

Stationary planers hold larger boards, produce an even higher volume of work, and offer more advanced features than benchtop planers. They are typically used in woodworking shops to provide a fixed workstation for processing large batches of rough lumber. These dedicated planers smooth and level boards along their length.

These machines combine a jointer and a planer into one space-saving unit that mills rough-sawn lumber into boards with parallel faces and square edges. The jointer removes bows, cups, and twists to leave one perfectly flat face with a straight, square edge. The planer shaves material from the opposing face, smoothing and leveling it to match the flat face. These combination machines produce boards with flat and parallel top and bottom surfaces, uniform thickness across the width and length, and one straight and square edge along the length. The opposite edge can be set straight and square by ripping it on a table saw. This process results in perfectly square, surface-four-sides (S4S) boards.

These machines combine a planer and a molder into one space-saving unit that surfaces boards to a uniform thickness and cuts profiles for molding. The planer smooths and levels boards along their length. The molder accepts various cutter sets that cut specific contours and profiles to customize workpieces for use as molding.