Top 7 Best SketchUp Render Farms

SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer software for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design. It is available as a web-based application, SketchUp Free, and a paid version with additional functionality, SketchUp Pro. There are several outstanding render farms that support SketchUp rendering, this article, Radarrender shows you the 7 Best SketchUp render farms today.

Copernicus render farm (website: https://copernicuscomputing.com) is a cloud rendering platform founded in 2016 in Poland. This service is based on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and focuses on renting CPU power. Pricing may be its outstanding strength when they offer the cheapest rendering – price starting at 1.5 cents per GHz/h. If you use their prepayment system, the price could drop to 0.4 cents per GHz/h! 

When it comes to SketchUp, now they do support SketchUp 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 with Vray 3.6 & 4+. They only concentrate on CPU rendering, without supporting GPU rendering at the moment. Therefore, it will take more time (maybe hours) to render a project via Copernicus render farm due to CPU-based service. If you are a freelancer or small studio who has flexible time and do not have tight deadlines, you should keep this render farm in mind and give it a try.

WinRender (website: https://winrender.com) is an online rendering service based on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business model. One of the great advantages of Winrender is that they provide an easy-to-use interface for users. It means that you just need to send your files, do render settings on the simple and friendly user interface, and finally, get your render. 

This service provides rendering solutions for only 3 software namely 3Ds Max Vray, Sketchup Vray, and Blender. Winrender offers CPU power from 48 threads/2.8Ghz core/64 GB RAM to 128 thread/2.9Ghz/128GB RAM, but its price is much higher than other render farms. It starts from 0.7 cents/minute to 1.7 cents/minute. Also, you can select the type of nodes including Low cost/Standard/Best offer service package for your task. The lower node needs more time for the task but is cheaper. Regarding SketchUp software that you are looking for now, this renders farm currently just supports SketchUp version 2018, they hardly upgrade various SketchUp versions.

RebusFarm (website: https://us.rebusfarm.net/) is a German-based company that offers rendering services for studios around the world. The business is based on the model of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). With the experience of almost 15 years in the field of 3D rendering, Rebus has been improving a lot to be one of the most trusted render cloud services. RebusFarm is quite easy to use due to uploading or downloading files is managed by a RebusFarm software element called “Rebusdrop”. In terms of SketchUp software in the RebusFarm system, it is supported with the external render engine V-Ray 3.X and V-Ray Next. 

Regarding SketchUp rendering, Rebus Farm offers CPU rendering with intel i9-7980XE, 2.6GHz. In addition, the cost is rather pricey which may be suitable for medium businesses that often render large architectural projects and they work against the clock to meet tight deadlines. One minus point is that they aren’t really good at response times with customer service even on their Germany working hours. Therefore, just be sure you know what you are getting into before sending your render to Rebusfarm.

ForRender render farm is a cloud rendering service that is based on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). It is called a SaaS model because they support detailed software and plugins where you just need to upload your files and For Render will do their rendering responsibility. This render farm is also considered as a PaaS model when they provide remote servers for users with a particular CPU machine configuration.

Every single CPU server is equipped with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) and 64 or 120 GB RAM. For GPU rendering, ForRender uses “Pascal” graphics cards GTX1080 Ti and GTX 1080. You can select to rent via CPU or GPU servers, depending on what is needed, while the calculator part will help to estimate how much time it will take to render your project. Mention to SketchUp software, this cloud rendering service providing only one version is SketchUp 2020 without renderer such as Vray. ForRener’s system is not automatic for plugins of SketchUp, you need to ask the staff to see whether they can support your plugin or not. 

iRender Farm (website: https://irendering.net) was established in 2019 working in the cloud computing field. iRender provides an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) model that allows users to take full control over their computer and set up a similar working environment with the customer’s personal computer on the remote server to work and render (setting image one time only).

High-performance machines with powerful graphics cards are an obvious advantage of this Redshift render farm. You can select a wide variety of service packages including CPU rental packages or GPU rental packages (namely RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, or RTX 3090, RTX4090 which are all the state-of-the-art and newest ones in the market). Using iRender service will not limit your types of plugins, software versions or GPU/CPU rendering. To illustrate, if you use SketchUp and Vray that supports a single GPU or multi GPUs, you can easily select machine specs with your requirements and setup everything you need on that server. Its price starts from 1$/hour for CPU machine and from 2$/hour for GPU machine.

Specs of a single RTX 3090 package includes:

• 1xRTX 3090, 24GB vRAM
• NVIDIA CUDA® Cores: 10.496
• GPU Architecture: Ampere, GA102
• CPU: Intel Xeon W-2245 @ 3.90GHz
• RAM: 128 GB
• Storage (NVMe SSD): 512GB

Renderwow (website: https://www.renderwow.com) is a new brand name whose parent company is Shinewonder Hongkong Limited. Renderwow delivers the cloud rendering service platform to global users. Their subsidiary (Shinewonder Information Technology Beijing Co., Ltd) is the leader in the rendering service industry in China. So far, their customers cover industries such as architecture, interior design, film, engineering, and education. 

In terms of Sketchup software, this cloud rendering service now supports SketchUp 2020 and V-Ray Next Update 2. Specification of each server is 32 threads, 64GB RAM, with a performance number of 122 GHZ and the cost is from 2 cents/hour. Rendering based on CPU power needs many hours to complete your task, you should select more servers (maximum 10 servers) simultaneously to speed up your render time more, of course, the price is much higher.

Garage farm (website: https://www.garagefarm.net) providing cloud rendering services was established in 2010 with a team of two, Tomek and Minhee. In terms of supporting SketchUp, you should look at Garage Farm which is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model. Garage Farm today supports SketchUp versions from 2017 with Vray 3.5 and higher. All you need to do is send a project to the cloud with ease right from SketchUp’s interface and submit your job.

When supporting SketchUp software, they just offer 4 types of CPU nodes:

• Intel V4: 22 cores/60GB RAM/1 NUMA node/2.2GHz
• Intel V4: 22 cores/120GB RAM/2 NUMA node/2.2GHz
• Intel V4: 88 cores/240GB RAM/4 NUMA node/2.2GHz
• Intel V2: 20 cores120GB RAM/2 NUMA node/2.8GHz

If you are freelancers and sometimes have small projects with flexible deadlines, it would be great if you select their lowest price package with limited support, just only from 0.42$/node/hour. Installing and setting files on this system will take time for studios who need render in a short time.

In conclusion, if you put the pricing factor as the first priority and are not in a rush, you can consider using Copernicus Computing, For Render, Garage farm or Render Wow. These render farms offer a cheaper price than other render farms with a lower machine specification, but it will take you a long time (hours) to wait and render your job. If you look for Sketchup render farms providing better machine specs for SketchUp rendering but at a higher cost, Radarrender recommended you should take iRender farm and Rebus farm into account which may be suitable for your big project with tight deadlines.

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