The biggest complaint most have with it cutting fabric is that the brother only cuts one layer, but it has very little waste of fabric, you can fussy cut with ease and its so fast. if you lay the same design on the fabric multiple times, it'll cut faster than it takes to roll the fabric thru the accu cut. I've not even seen the silhouette so I can't say on it but the brother has so many features including you can use it to scan photo's, docs, etc into your pc. Its great. Google it and you'll find lots of tutorials on it. Good luck with your choice.