Rate and Review Drop & Render – Radarrender [2025]

Drop & Render is a cloud render farm that is dedicated to Cinema 4D rendering. This SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) render service is specially built for Cinema4D developed by Maxon which is well-known among many 3D disciplines. Drop & Render gives rendering solutions for Motion Graphics, VFX, Architectural Design, Product Visualization, and more. With an integrated In-app plugin and support for almost all major render engines and plugins, Drop & Render will help users to reduce the time rendering a lot. Today, let’s figure out what provides customers with, and is it worth using this render farm service?

First and foremost, we look at the Drop & Render UI/UX. What you need to do is prepare your project and then send it to the system directly via your software or through the Cloud Manager tool developed by Drop & Render. Then you set up a couple of things on the Cloud Manager before submitting to render your project on this render farm. At first, we thought that their UI/UX is quite friendly and easy to use, even for newbies using cloud rendering services. However, when problems arise and the interface shows “Error”, you will not know what exactly the error is because Drop & Render does not show LOG for a specific project. As a result, you will not know how to correct the error that makes you frustrated and easily give up using this render farm. 

In contrast, we are impressed by Drop & Render thanks to the outstanding benefit that Drop & Render brings customers which is the ability to work as a team on this render farm. Account Manager is the deeper integration for companies. This is a really useful feature for companies when it allows you to have multiple users within one studio account. You can set admin features for specific tasks and work together on your projects as a team. To add new users, go to the cloud manager and click render Account Manager in the top left corner. The default account is the administrator account. This allows for deeper and better integration into your company’s render workflow.

When it comes to your file size and storage, Drop & Render saves your renders only for 7 days on their servers before it gets removed completely. Until this time, you can download your renders from anywhere you like. This can be useful if the automatic download was not working correctly or you need the files on a different workstation. The maximum project size that you can upload to Drop & Render farm is 50GB. If your files are only MBs, the uploading speed is acceptable and not bad. However, in case your files are in several GBs or larger, your upload times will be slower and it may take 30 minutes or longer to send your files to Drop & Render farm. 

As aforementioned, Drop & Render is dedicated only to Cinema 4D software. However, the render farm has now expanded its support to include Blender and Houdini, in addition to Cinema 4D. Currently, Drop & Render supports Cinema 4D from R17 up to 2026, Blender from version 2.8 to 5.0, and Houdini from 18.5 to 21.0. Despite this wider coverage, Cinema 4D still remains its primary focus and also the software with the largest plugin support on the farm. For render engines, Drop & Render continues to offer a broad range for Cinema 4D, including V-Ray, Arnold, C4D Physical, C4D Standard for CPU rendering, and Redshift and Octane for GPU rendering. Blender users can choose from Cycles, Octane, Redshift, and LuxCore, while Houdini users have access to Karma, Mantra, Octane, and Redshift. Nevertheless, users are not able to select the versions of these render engines, and they cannot know whether these renderers are legal or illegal.

Next, we would like to mention Drop & Render hardware. Now they offer both CPU and GPU rendering. According to what Drop & Render shows on their website, there are RTX 3090, RTX 4090, which are state-of-the-art graphics cards on their farm, and the CPUs are EPYC 7352 and Threadripper 3970X. However, the actual GPU types on Drop & Render are a mystery. Like most render farms, Drop & Render works with priorities; however, they take this a bit further to make sure you have full control over your projects. When you first submit your project, you choose your starting priority inside the plugin. If you, for example, set your priority to Sapphire, which is the middle priority, and there is no waiting line below you, you only pay for Quartz, which is the lowest priority. They don’t charge you when it’s not needed. Besides that, you can always change your priority in the cloud manager by right-clicking on your job and selecting Change Render. You can do this as many times as you want to have complete control over your deadlines. The difference among Quartz, Sapphire, and Emerald packages is based on priorities. To illustrate, Emerald will mostly have the most nodes available and immediately be ready to render, while you need to queue if you select Quartz priority. Users will not know how many nodes are being used to render your jobs and do not know how long it will take to render the whole project.

Pricing is the next factor that we would like to evaluate. The Drop & Render pricing varies depending on which packages you choose among Quartz, Sapphire, and Emerald. Firstly, regarding CPU rendering, it costs €0.0004/Cinebench 2020 point/hour for the lowest priority, while costing  €0.0006/Cinebench 2020 point/hour and €0.0012/Cinebench 2020 point/hour, respectively, for Sapphire and Emerald. On the other hand, the GPU rendering price is higher than that of CPU rendering. In detail, the Quartz package costs €0.0044/Octanebench 2020 point/hour, compared to €0.0071/Octanebench 2020 point/hour for the middle priority and €0.0133/Octanebench 2020 point/hour for the highest priority. The Drop & Render pricing can be considered acceptable and affordable in terms of cloud rendering services. 

However, the customer service of Drop & Render made us disappointed when compared to other cloud render farms. The support on the users’ dashboard is robots and automatically giving the answers based on keywords we ask. This is not a live chat, therefore, robots cannot answer correctly what you need. It takes a very long time before you will get a response that may be a real human. If you are in a rush, Drop & Render staff will not be ready to serve you all the time. It is the reason why we rated Drop & Render 1 star in terms of customer service. 

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