Nowaday, GPU rendering enables the use of graphics cards for rendering in place of CPU, which remarkably speeds up the rendering process. The principle of GPU rendering is running across multiple cores on multiple data, focusing parallel processing on one specific task while freeing up the CPU to emphasize different sequential serial processing jobs. To shorten the rendering time of GPU, there are a wide variety of render engines utilizing GPU rendering. Especially, leveraging multiple GPUs simultaneously to render can be 5 or 10 times faster than that of a single GPU. One of the outstanding names that has been widely used by 3D artists worldwide is Octane Render of OTOY Inc. 

Because of Octane’s popularity in the 3D world,  there are hundreds of render farms out there that provide Cloud Rendering services to solve the big problem of computer performance for rendering. However, having too many options to choose from makes 3D artists confused and wonder which will be the most suitable Render farm for them? Every render farm can advertise that they support rendering with Octane well with the cheapest price, that they are the best render farm for this renderer, but who knows how many percent is the truth. Therefore, in order to give Radarrender’s friends, all 3D addicts worldwide, the most specific, clear, and fair answer to this above question, we decided to conduct a comprehensive test on many leading render farms currently to find out the Best Render Farms for Octane Render in 2022. 

Hoping that spending a quick glance on our effort could help you make the most suitable choice for your needs and save much time, effort, and money for your upcoming rendering. We have conducted the test and given reviews of some other render engines that make use of multi-GPU rendering such as Best Render farms for Redshift renderer 2022, and Best renderfarms for Blender, Eevee vs Cycles here if you might be interested. And if the software that you are using hasn’t been shown up. Don’t worry, there will be a series of reviews about each software afterward. Stay tuned to update the latest articles from us!

Assessment scope and method

To be more specific, 3 out of 5 render farms rated as the most worthwhile render farms to use in 2022 in our previous article including iRender, Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm have surpassed hundreds of other competitors to sit on Top best render farms for Octane render 2022. Unfortunately, the other 2 leading renderfarms, Garagefarm and Fox renderfarm, do not support rendering with Octane Render. Hopefully these 2 render farms will soon add Octane Render to the list of supported software so that users could have more options in the future.

The 3D software and render engine used for the evaluation is Cinema 4d R23 and Octane renderer 2020.2.5. As we all know, OctaneRender® is one of the world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engines, delivering quality and speed unrivaled by any production renderer on the market developed by graphics software company OTOY Inc. This renderer advances state of the art graphics technologies with groundbreaking machine learning optimizations, out-of-core geometry support, massive 10-100x speed gains in the scene graph, and RTX ray tracing GPU hardware acceleration. Octane now has integrated and supported up to 21 types of 3D software with various versions. There are 2 types of Octane licenses including Studio and Enterprise Subscription. Studio Subscriptions allow artists and studios full access to OTOY’s acclaimed OctaneRender VFX software and ecosystem through low monthly or annual subscription offerings on a maximum of 2 GPUs while Enterprise Subscriptions offer network/ offline rendering and enable to use more than 2 GPUs.

When it comes to the evaluating process, we bring the same test project including 12 frames with 3000 x 1500 resolution to those chosen render farms and render the project normally until we get the final render output and then calculate the relation between render time and cost, their strengths and weaknesses also to rank these render farms. 

For those who would like to have a quick look through our test result:

• iRender – Total Cost: $2.88, Render time: 15.6 min
• Ranch Computing – Total Cost: $13.67, Render time: 2.98 min
• Rebusfarm – Total Cost: $17, Render time: 6.49 min

iRender Farm

iRender is one of the leading render farms specializing in providing high-performance machines for rendering. Rendering is managed on the Web basis. There are some points that make this renderfarm unique. Firstly, unlike others, the whole concept of using here is to allow users to connect, take full and flexible control over their powerful physical server online via Remote Desktop connection, using 100% performance of the selected server, not share it with anyone to speed up render time. Users could flexibly switch between those powerful servers without re-installing the software or re-uploading the files as well. 

Moreover, the hardware configuration that this render farm offers is impressive, consisting of cutting edge graphics cards from Nvidia such as  RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. This render farm can be considered as the most suitable render farm for Octane Render. The servers range from 1/ 2/ 4/6/8 RTX 3090/3080 and even servers with 8 monster RTX 3090 and the CPU is AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX @ 3.90GHz. If users have Octane Studio subscriptions, the most suitable server is servers with 2 RTX 3090 while servers with 4/6/8 RTX 3080/3090 will be ideal for Octane Enterprise Subscription. Downloading and uploading files to/from the server is also done quickly and easily via their 2-way synced tool named Gpuhubsync. That free transfer file tool is free and unlimited storage. Moreover, iRender supports all versions of Octane render. Having this highly customized feature, iRender is suitable for jobs with large size and complex pipelines and tight deadlines, in which users could take control of the robust servers and customize the scene files directly like they do on their local computer if there’s any change in the assets or  materials,etc.

Finally, the render cost in this test is much cheaper than all other render farms that’s not mentioned iRender has many other promotions currently such as Bonus 50% for new customer’s first recharge, Bonus 5% to 15% for recharge from $118 to $1500, or discount 20% to 40% for daily/weekly rental. If users could take advantage of these promotions, the cost of rendering will be surprisingly cheap!

 

However, the workflow of rendering in iRender is more complicated compared to others for the first time. As mentioned above, users need to manually install software on a new machine (as shown in our testing video). Fortunately, software installation is one time only then all installed data is automatically stored and saved for later usage. Moreover, users need to use their own software license to render in iRender, which is somewhat inconvenient if you still want to use your Octane license on your local computer.  Finally, although having no queue time, there is still a chance that users will have to wait if the servers that they are going to use are fully used by others. Rarely happens doesn’t mean it won’t happen! Any users using iRender should be careful with this feature to have the best plan for your rendering. 

iRender test results

+ The total number of frames: 12

+ The queue time: No queue time

+ The installing software time: 45.3 minutes (one time only)

+ The render time: 15.6 minutes (excluded the installing software time)

+ Cost: 2.8 $

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 21.6 hours and $240.

Based on the testing result, this render farm ranks number one out of all the rest and becoming the cheapest render farm in terms of Price. The rendering cost is 6-time-cheaper than Rebusfarm and 5-time-cheaper compared to Ranch Computing. That is not to mention other promotions such as 50% bonus for the first deposit, 20-40% discount if renting by day/week etc. When it comes to Render time, the renderfarm is in 3rd place. That’s quite reasonable because in this test, we use only 1 node. iRender allows users to use multiple nodes simultaneously (10++ nodes). Users are able to choose to use 2 or 3 or more nodes so that the render time could be down to 2 or 3 times or more accordingly. Another highlight when experiencing this render farm is “no queue time” at all! Waiting is not happiness in the case of rendering!

Ranch Computing

Regarding RANCH Computing, it is also a big name providing a high-performance rendering service for both CPU and GPU-based rendering. Customers could easily access the RANCH Computing farm and utilize the power of a dozen render nodes to speed up the rendering process. They offer their GPU farm service with 2 types of graphic cards including mainly RTX 2080 Ti and one of the best graphic cards in 2021, RTX 3090 as well. Users could leverage the huge number of render nodes to speed up the render time. They offer a maximum of 14 nodes for GPU-Low (0.009 per OB hour),  28 nodes for GPU-Medium (0.012 per OB hour), and 56 nodes for GPU-High (0.016 per OB hour). The rendering performance in the test is extremely impressive to us. Leveraging the huge number of nodes, our 12 test frames were rendered as fast as a wind. The render time is 5-times faster than that of iRender and 3-time faster than Rebusfarm.

Rendering is on the web basis which is quite clear and friendly for users to manage the rendering process. The first step is to download the free and easily-to-use online tool RANCHecker and integrate it into 3D software to prepare and check the scene carefully for smooth rendering after that. This plugin will gather all assets used by your scene, verify the rendering parameters, change file paths if necessary, and warn you in case of possible issues. The rest of the workflow is quite normal including Uploading files, Waiting for the queue list, Rendering and Downloading the results. Fortunately users could submit the project directly from the local computer onto the RANCH. Downloading frames from a secure and fast FTP account is also a strength of this renderfarm.

Nevertheless, same like other renderfarm, users have to queue before being served, which may be vague when waiting for your turn and do not know exactly how long it will take even though Ranch illustrates clearly the queue part. Moreover we noticed that Ranch only supports a limited version of Octane render. To be more specific, for Cinema 4D software from R16 to R24, this render farm only supports one version of Octane is Octane 2020.2.5. Lastly, Ranch has few promotions or discounts. Currently they only give customers volume bonus 10% for all recharges. 

Moreover, users are currently able to send a job with under 50GB of data. Rendering very heavy projects put a lot of strain on the RANCH systems, it is therefore mandatory to contact RANCH before submitting any project bigger than 50 GB (uncompressed size of archive generated by the RANCHecker) to check whether RANCH is possible to render your project or not. And finally, the rendering cost at this render farm is relatively expensive compared to others such as iRender. Users should carefully consider whether it is worth investing a large amount of money in exchange for high- speed? 

Ranch Computing’s test results:

+ The number of frames: 12 frames

+ The queue time: 1.78 minutes (highest priority)

+ The render time: 2.98 minutes (excluded the queue time)

+ Cost: $13.67

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 4.13 hours and $1,139.

The capability to leverage the huge number of nodes help Ranch Computing has the fastest render time. As mentioned above, the render time is approximately 5-time faster than that of iRender and 3-times faster than Rebusfarm. However, the Rendering Expense is such a pain when this render farm holds the 2nd place in terms of the most expensive renderfarms (just less expensive than Rebusfarm). Therefore, if you are having a really tight deadline and high budget is not a problem then you could consider going with this renderfarm. Otherwise, iRender is still a better choice in both Price and Render speed. 

Rebus Farm

Final representative in top render farms for Octane render is Rebusfarm. With the experience of more than ten years in the field of 3D rendering, Rebus has been improving a lot to be one of the most trusted render cloud services.  Its CPU is Intel i9-7980XE, 2.60 GHz, 18 cores while GPU rendering is the strong points of this renderfarm.  Their GPU is the powerful Quadro RTX 6000 which has 48GB of DRAM onboard. This will perform better in memory-hungry professional workloads. 

Rendering process on Rebusfarm will be managed on a web basis and using their powerful C4D Render Farm is just one click away. After installation Cinema 4D Render Farm Software 3.0, users will find it inside the Cinema 4D menu. The Farminizer scans all project assets to deliver renderings in the easiest and fastest way. To be more specific, what users need to do first is prepare a project on the local computer, then uploading and downloading files can be automatically or manually managed by the convenient RebusFarm add-on called “Rebusdrop”. Users can monitor their cloud rendering jobs and can start, pause, and cancel all jobs at any time using this tool. Especially, the job will be rendered frame by frame, so it will automatically be downloaded to a folder chosen in advance. That will be wonderful and time-saving if your files are big. 

However, a huge drawback of this render farm is related to the Price, Priority and Queue, which means the higher the priority is, the less time you have to queue and the more expensive price you have to pay. The job priority ranges from Standard (0.552 cent/Obh + 0.1 cent/Obh) to Priority 7(2.698 cent/Obh + 0.1 cent/Obh). If you choose the standard option, you might have to sit quietly, cross your fingers and see your files remain not to be rendered, even hours and don’t even know how long it will take. So if you are in a hurry and the farm is full, you will have no choice but to pay more and wait for your turn in the queue. 

In addition, Rebus farm does not have many promotions or discounts. Currently they give customers volume discounts from 5% when recharging 500$ to 60% when recharging 50,000$.  Rebusfarm pricing is considered as “pricey” when compared with other render farms. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that this render farm has the most expensive rendering cost (6 times more expensive than iRender) while the rendering speed is not the fastest. 

Rebus Farm’s test results

+ The number of frames: 12 frames

+ The queue time: 0.45 minutes (highest priority)

+ The render time: 6.49 minutes (excluded the queue time)

+ Cost: $17 ( equivalent to 14.43 RP)

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 9 hours and $1, 416. 

With powerful hardware configuration, unsurprisingly this render farm ranks number 2 out of 3 in Render Time. However, the rendering cost is the most expensive out of 3. Being the most expensive but not the fastest, Rebusfarm is not the best render farm for Octane but still in the top if you need a fast render solution.

In conclusion those above mentioned render farm including iRender, Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm are top rendefarms for Octane Rendering. In particular, the render cost on iRender is the cheapest (5-time cheaper than Ranch Computing), meanwhile, the render time on Ranch Computing is the shortest (5 time shorter than iRender). Therefore, if you have a straightforward project and small-to-medium scale and a decent budget, Ranch is suitable for you. On the other hand, iRender should be your choice when your project is larger, complicated or needs much customization or adjustment. The render time on iRender could be much faster than the test above if users could take advantage of multiple nodes simultaneously rather than using only 1 node as in our test. 

We need to reconfirm again that when evaluating the price and cost, the queue time of Rebusfarm, and Ranch Computing is excluded and those render farms also say that the queue time is not being charged. However, by allowing users to choose the Priority render with higher price, users are directly paying to be rendered faster and are indirectly paying for this queue time. Therefore, queue time is also an important criterion for choosing the renderfarm. The less the better. Here in our test, both 3 renderfarms don’t make customers have to wait for a long time to render their project and more especially iRender has no queue time and users don’t have to pay more to be rendered faster.

See more:

1. Best render farms for Redshift render
2. Top 7 best render farm comparison

If you work in fields such as 3D graphic design, animation, VFX, architecture, or video editing, encoding, then the concept of “Render farm” is totally familiar. There are many huge technology computing names that provide Cloud Rendering services to solve the big problem of computer performance for rendering. Each Render farm has its own advantages and disadvantages, providing a variety of services and choices, which brings the highest efficiency to customers. Continuing the mission of finding the most suitable render farm for 3D designers’ projects, let’s go into detail, find out What are the Best Render Farms for Redshift Render.

So first let’s come to the reason why Radarrender decided to go with this topic. The first important reason is that we have tried to find out on different media sites like Google, Youtube, etc and almost every render farm claims that they support rendering with Redshift well, that they are the best render farm for this Renderer, but there has never been a specific, clear, and fair comparison between these render farms before, which makes 3D designers feel confused and might probably make the wrong choice. Besides, we also receive hundreds of requests from 3D designers around the world asking us to refer/ recommend to them one suitable render farm for their Redshift project.  Therefore, we decided to conduct this test to give users the most overview, easy-to-understand comparison among render farms, so that designers can compare with their own needs to make the most suitable choice.

Definitely, the concept of “Best of all” is vague here. Every renderfarm could claim that they are the best.  We all know that each render farm has its own strengths and weaknesses. Maybe this render farm supports this software well, but it is not suitable for other software, or that render farm supports this 3D software well but only for small to medium projects, you will have problems if your files are too big and complicated. Therefore, Radarrender will go with you into details of each single software and give you the most accurate conclusions. We have made the test and give reviews of Best Lumion cloud rendering and Best renderfarms for Blender, Eevee vs Cycles here if you might be interested. And if the software that you are using hasn’t been shown up. Don’t worry, there will be a series of reviews about each software afterward. Stay tuned to update the latest articles from us!

Assessment scope and method

To be more specific, the main representatives of this review are 5 Render farms that we rated as the most worthwhile render farms to use in the previous article including Garagefarm, Fox Renderfarm, iRender, Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm. By evaluating factors such as: Ease of use, Business model, Compatibility with software versions and plugins, Price, Rendering speed and some other factors, these 5 render farms have surpassed hundreds of other competitors to sit on top 5 best render farms 2022. The render engine to do the evaluation here is Redshift renderer. To be more detailed, this project was designed on Cinema 4D software R21 version and rendered using the Redshift 3.0.44 render engine. As we all know, Redshift is a production for 3D rendering and the world’s first fully & powerful multi-GPUs-accelerated, biased renderer. This render engine is built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering. Tailored to support creative individuals and all-sized studios, Redshift today offers a suite of powerful features and integrates with industry-standard CG applications including Cinema 4D.  The test project includes 11 frames with 1920 x 1080 resolution. When it comes to the evaluating process, we bring this same test project to these 5 render farms and render the project normally until we get the final render output and then calculate the relation between render time and cost, their strengths and weaknesses also to rank these render farms.

For those who would like to have a quick look through our test result:

• iRender– Total cost: $2.1, Render time: 11.73 min
• Ranch Computing – Total cost: $11.71, Render time:3.63 min
• Fox Renderfarm – Total cost: $4, Render time: 10 min
• Rebusfarm– Total cost: $13.57, Render time: 6.42 min
• Garagefarm – Total cost: $3.06, Render time: 12.9 min

iRender Farm

Clearly,  multi-GPU rendering is the strong point of iRender, especially for GPU-based renderers such as Redshift. The hardware specs of this render farm are impressive, which consist of cutting edge graphics cards and  flagship products from Nvidia such as  RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. The servers range from 1/ 2/ 4/8 RTX 3090/3080 and even servers with 8 monster RTX 3090 and the CPU is AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX @ 3.90GHz. 

Rendering is managed on the Web basis. Unlike other renderfarms, the whole concept here is to allow users to connect, take full and flexible control over their powerful physical server online via Remote Desktop connection, using 100% performance of the selected server, not share it with anyone to speed up render time. Users could flexibly switch between those powerful servers without re-installing the software or re-uploading the files as well. Having this highly customized feature, iRender is suitable for jobs with large size and complex pipelines and tight deadlines, in which users could take control of the robust servers and customize the scene files directly like they do on their local computer if there’s any change in the assets or  materials,etc. Download/upload files to/from the server is also done quickly and easily via their 2-way synced tool named Gpuhubsync. Moreover, iRender supports all versions of Redshift and provides a free Redshift license for Prime users too. Finally, the render cost is cheaper than 4 other render farms because iRender has many promotions such as Bonus 50% for new customer’s first recharge, Bonus 5 to 15% for recharge from $118 to $1500, or discount 20% to 40% for daily/weekly rental. If users could take advantage of these promotions, the cost of rendering will be surprisingly cheap!

Nonetheless, rendering in iRender requires more steps for the first time. As mentioned above, users need to manually install software on a new machine, fortunately, one time only then all installed data is automatically stored and saved for later usage. Moreover, users need to use their own software license to render on iRender, which is somewhat inconvenient if you still want to use your Redshift license on your local computer.  Or you could choose to become their Prime to get the free Redshift license! Moreover, here in our testing, we first have the intention to test the most powerful server which is 6 RTX 3090 but this server is temporarily full so we decided to test on server with 4 RTX 3090 instead! 

iRender’s test result:

+ The total number of frames: 11

+ The queue time: No queue time

+ The installing software time: 10.27 minutes (one time only)

+ The render time: 11.73 minutes (excluded the installing software time)

+ Cost: 2.1 $

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 17.7 hours and $190

Based on the testing result, this render farm ranks number one out of all the rest and becoming the cheapest renderfarm in terms of Price. The rendering cost is 5-time-cheaper than Ranch computing and 4-time-cheaper compared to Rebusfarm. That is not to mention other promotions such as 50% bonus for the first deposit, 20-40% discount if renting by day/week etc. When it comes to Render time, the renderfarm is in 4th place. That’s quite reasonable because in this test, we use only 1 node. iRender allows users to use multiple nodes simultaneously (10++ nodes). Users are able to choose to use 2 or 3 or more nodes so that the render time could be down to 2 or 3 times or more accordingly. Another highlight when experiencing this render farm is “no queue time” at all! Waiting is not happiness in the case of rendering!

Ranch Computing

Regarding RANCH Computing, they provide both CPU and GPU-based rendering. The GPU types including mainly RTX 2080 Ti and some RTX 3090 as well. Moreover, users could leverage the huge number of render nodes to speed up the render time. A maximum of 14 nodes for GPU-Low (0.009 per OB hour),  28 nodes for GPU-Medium (0.012 per OB hour), and 56 nodes for GPU-High (0.016 per OB hour). That’s the reason why the render time of this render farm is the shortest. 

Rendering management is also on the web. The first step is to download the free online tool RANCHecker and integrate it into 3D software to prepare and check the scene carefully for smooth rendering after that. This plugin will gather all assets used by your scene, verify the rendering parameters, change file paths if necessary, and warn you in case of possible issues. The rest of the workflow is quite normal including Uploading files, Waiting for the queue list, Rendering and Downloading the results. Fortunately users could submit the project directly from the local computer onto the RANCH. Downloading frames from a secure and fast FTP account is also a strength of this renderfarm.

Despite still having to wait for the rendering turn, Ranch’s dashboard allows users to know how many jobs are being queued, or how many jobs are currently being rendered at a specific percentage of the rendering process. And moreover, Ranch provides Priorities, which sort the projects in the waiting list and attribute a maximum of nodes per project. Here in our testing, after choosing the highest priority, our job started rendering in less than a minute after submitting the project.

Nevertheless, same like other renderfarm like Rebusfarm or Garagefarm, users have to queue before being served, which may be vague when waiting for your turn and do not know exactly how long it will take even though Ranch illustrates clearly the queue part. Moreover we noticed that Ranch only supports a limited version of Redshift render. To be more specific, for Cinema 4D software from R17 to R24, this renderfarm only supports one version of Redshift is Redshift 3.0.5. Lastly, Ranch has few promotions or discounts. Currently they only give customers volume bonus 10% for all recharges. 

Ranch Computing’s test result:

+ The number of frames: 11 frames

+ The queue time: 0.65 minutes (highest priority)

+ The render time:3.63 minutes (excluded the queue time)

+ Cost: $11.71 

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 5.5 hours and $1,064

The capability to leverage the huge number of nodes help Ranch Computing has the fastest render time. The render time is approximately 4-time faster than GarageFarm and 3-times faster than Fox Renderfarm. However, the Rendering Expense is such a pain when this render farm holds the 2nd place in terms of the most expensive renderfarms (just less expensive than Rebusfarm). Therefore, if you are having a really tight deadline and high budget is not a problem then you could consider going with this renderfarm. Otherwise, iRender is still a better choice in both Price and Render speed. 

Fox Render Farm

Hardware configuration is a quite strong point of Fox renderfarm. The machine specifications for the GPU nodes are various from GTX 1080 Ti  and 2080 Ti  (GPU region 1) to RTX 3090 (GPU region 11), Tesla T4 (GPU region 12). Different regions have different nodes to choose from and CPUs with 16 and 24 physical cores. Because Redshift can make use of multi GPU cards to render faster, we choose GPU region 11 to have a test on the most powerful GPU card currently is RTX 3090 and the default configuration is 2 RTX 3090 while the number of nodes is not being shown. When it comes to rendering management, Fox Render Farm gives users 2 ways either on the Web or the Desktop Client application (here we used Web management). Rendering needs to follow only 4 steps which include uploading assets, submitting a job, analyzing scenes, and finally rendering. Regarding uploading/downloading files, this render farm provides a quite convenient file transfer application called Raysycn and can be considered a high-speed transmission solution. Here in our test, the files appear quickly in a minute on the web management waiting to be submitted, analysed and rendered. Fox supports Redshift for various versions including 2.6 and 3.0, depending on the version of C4d.

However, one of the weaknesses of this render farm as mentioned above is that users are not able to select the number of nodes they want to use. In fact, the number of graphics cards in one node of Fox Render Farm is fixed with 2 cards. As a result, we find it hard to utilize the rugged power of a single node with more-than-2 GPU for rendering. Moreover, the price will only become cheaper once the accumulated recharge of users reaches a specific big amount ranging from $500 to $10 000, and currently there is no other discount or bonus promotion for normal customers. Therefore, this makes rendering costs more expensive if your project does not need that large amount to be rendered. Another small weakness is that you must re-upload the file if you change from one region to other regions and the files after rendering won’t be automatically downloaded to your PC.

Fox ‘s test result:

+ The number of frames: 11 frames

+ The queue time: 0.43 minutes (highest priority)

+ The render time: 6.42 minutes (excluded the queue time)

+ Cost: $13.57 ( equivalent to 11.5 RP)

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 9,7 hours and $1, 233. 

With powerful hardware configuration, unsurprisingly this render farm ranks number 2 out of 5 in Render Time. However, the rendering cost is the most expensive out of 5. Being the most expensive but not the fastest, Rebusfarm is not the best render farm for Redshift but still in the top if you need a fast render solution.

Garage Farm

Garage farm offers CPU specs: Intel E5-2699V4, 2.20 GHz, 22 cores, available in 1x CPU, 2x CPU, 4x CPU configuration, 60-240GB RAM (likely to own up to 88 cores per node but honestly, Garage Farm has quite outdated graphics cards 8x Tesla K80 and 8x Tesla P100 16GB vRAM for rendering via GPU. Rendering management is Web-based. However there are too many steps to prepare for the job and get the final results which make users a little bit discouraged. It takes time to figure out how to use the Garage Farm service ranging from installing the renderBeamer app and then learning to prepare a job on the interface of the software and integrating the Garage Farm app to the software so that users can use the plugin for setting the mode, camera settings and render settings. The rest steps include upload the job (it takes more time) and then submit the job & monitor the render progress. 

Every cloud has a silver lining fortunately! This render farm supports all official versions of Redshift. Generally, their plugin automatically detects which version users are using in their project and uses exactly the same version to render this project on their farm. Moreover, all the rendered frames will be automatically and immediately downloaded as soon as the file is ready if users enable this function. That’s really convenient! Despite GPU-rendering is not the strong point of this renderfarm, we still quite satisfied because we can easily choosing the plan among low priority (0.0025 / per OB hour), medium (0.0038 / per OB hour) or high priority (0.0050 / per OB hour) corresponding to 10 nodes, 25 and up to 50 nodes to speed up the render time.

Garagefarm ‘s test result:

+ The total number of frames: 11

+ The queue time:  6.88 minutes (highest priority)

+ The render time: 12.9 minutes (excluded the queue time)

+ Cost: $3.06

→  Rendering 1000 frames would take around 19.5 hours and $ 278

This test result comes at no surprise. The GPU cards of Garagefarm are not so strong, even when we did choose the highest priority to render the job, it still takes this render farm the longest time to finish rendering. Moreover, we still have to queue around 7 minutes before rendering starts. However, cheap rendering costs somewhat ease our waiting. This renderfarm is the second cheapest out of the 5 renderfarms.

In conclusion, the render cost on iRender is the cheapest (5-time cheaper than Ranch Computing), meanwhile, the render time on Ranch Computing is the shortest (3-time shorter than iRender). Therefore, if you have a straightforward project and a decent budget, Ranch is suitable for you. On the other hand, iRender should be your choice when your project is larger, complicated or needs much customization or adjustment. The render time on iRender could be much faster than the test above if users could take advantage of multiple nodes simultaneously rather than using only 1 node as in our test. 

Note that when evaluating the price and cost, the queue time of Rebusfarm, Garagefarm and Ranch Computing is excluded and those render farms also say that the queue time is not being charged. However, by allowing users to choose the Priority render with higher price, users are directly paying to be rendered faster and are indirectly paying for this queue time. Therefore, queue time is also an important criterion for choosing the renderfarm. In our test, iRender has no queue time. The project was rendered almost immediately on Fox Renderfarm, Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm ( after choosing highest priority) whereas queue time on Garage was quite much ( 6.88 minutes) despite the highest priority being chosen. 

See more: Ranking cloud render farm

Radarrender has introduced many rankings of the Best render farms by comparing the correlation between Price and Affordability, Speed and Performance, Ease of use, Form of business (SaaS, PaaS or Iaas),etc. However, there is a factor that is rarely noticed by 3D artists but greatly affects the rendering process which is Trustworthy Render Farms. People say that What a company says to customers is just advertising while what customers say to their friends is the truth. Any render farm can say that they are committed to serving their customers with all their best but how they really treat customers remains unknown until we start using their services, and especially when we have problems then we will know how professionally and nicely they respond to us. Sometimes 3D artists get into so many troubles because of choosing the wrong render farm but have gone too far to draw back, which causes them to waste much more time, effort, and money. That’s the reason why we decided to write about the Top 5 most trustworthy render farms as a reference for 3D artists to evaluate which render farm is best suited for their needs. 

The results of the evaluation are based on the use of service throughout the career of 3D artists of Radarrender, and especially this time, we have prepared a test file to challenge the customer support of those render farms. This file was designed on Cinema 4D R21 and rendered using Redshift 3.0.44 render engine. However, this file was made with an error purposely and was unable to be rendered. We bring this error file to the chosen render farms and render the project normally until we get an error and ask for help and support.

There aren’t any definite metrics for finding the most prestigious render farms for your specific needs but here are some factors we believe need considering including Public recognition, Willingness to support, Transparency with Clients, Refund policy, and Security and Privacy regulation. After many days of researching and experimenting with dozens of different render farms out there, Radarrender gives out the Top 5 Trustworthy Render Farms that we consider as the most prestigious ones including Fox Render farm, GarageFarm, iRender, Ranch Computing, and finally, Rebusfarm. And note here that we’re not playing favorites. These render farms are randomly listed in alphabetical order! Moreover, by exploring every single criterion, one render farm might be the champion of one aspect but not the rest. Therefore, we recommend that you should consider all criteria and see what matters to you the most and make your own decision.  

Public recognition means the reputation that a company has achieved in its market so far or simply, how customers feel or think about a company when they hear the name of this render farm. Anybody can create a render farm. Can they create one that lasts and has satisfied customer needs for years and receive the customers’ recognition? All those 5 Render farms are long considered as the most prestigious render farms in the industry. Out of all, Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm are 2 of the names with the longest history. They both have more than ten years of experience in providing render solutions for customers. These 2 render farms are both pioneers, laying the first foundations for rendering services for 3D artists and have enough time to create a good brand in the hearts of customers. Next-generation is Fox Renderfarm and Garagefarm. They have a team of experienced staff in the field of computer graphics. With professional services and industry-leading innovation, they provide cloud rendering services to a wide range of entertainment studios and animation studios. Seeing Testimonials of Fox Renderfarm and Garagefarm reviews, it’s fair to say that they have been doing great in satisfying their customers. The last and also the one that left a quite great impression on us is iRender. This render farm is the youngest player in this playground. Established in 2019 in Vietnam with only 2 years of experience but they have been referred to as one of the best online render farms by many 3d artists, studios, and organizations (Lumion website, CGdirector, All3dp, etc). 

The next primary criteria to consider whether one is prestigious or not is How this render farm supports their customers. Are they available timely to assist the customers? Are they real humans or robots? Do they have convenient support channels? Are they willing and patient to answer customer inquiries? etc.  First, let’s come to Fox renderfarm. We were quite impressed by their good customer service. After registering, users will receive an email from their Fox greeting and asking whether we need any assistance or not. When we ask them any questions, they immediately answer our questions and issues via live chat. But if your problems are about the technical issue, it takes Fox team a while to check and answer later. Fox render farm supports customers 24/7 through live chat on their website or Skype with real humans, not robots.Therefore, we consider Fox as an excellent render farm in terms of supporting customers.

Garagefarm service support is also a considerable strength.  Whenever you have a question, click on the live chat icon (preferred channel of communication) that is available on the user interface. Garage Farm staff are online 24/7 and will give detailed instructions through documents for customers. Depending on user priority level, you will get the support speed. To illustrate, you will get full and premium support if you choose the medium priority and high priority respectively while you only get limited support if you choose the low priority. They ensure 10 people 1st line support, available 24/365 including holidays with any communication via live chat (24/7), Skype (realtime chat), and email (get a response within 1 hour). They also got additional support available for large productions. 

iRender possesses enthusiastic staff and experienced experts who support customers directly and immediately whenever we need help with a diversity of communication methods. It is the renderfarm with the widest range of customer contact methods including: 24/7 live chat, Hotline, Skype, WhatsApp, email etc. We intentionally ask for support after their working hours but still get support and reply within seconds via live chat on their website with real human support. More importantly, right after we register our account, we receive their greeting email which provides us with the instructions and tips to use the service. And one of the special things is that their customer support agent will actively find the way to contact customers, send us the message on any platform that we are available (in our case is Whatsapp) to ask whether we have any questions or need any support or not. This would help a lot if you are not afraid of a stranger to contact you. This agent will directly support the customer for the entire process of using the service. iRender is ISO 9001 certified to deliver products that consistently meet customer requirements and a service that is dependable and can be relied on.

For Ranch Computing and Rebusfarm, they don’t really have outstanding customer support. Ranch Computing’s website shows that they are available from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (GMT+1 / Paris, France) to answer questions by email/telephone. During the weekend, RANCH can help on Skype or by email in case of an emergency. However, when we contacted them for help in their working time, it took Ranch Computing hours or even days for them to answer all my questions that we needed to know about their service. And so does Rebusfarm. RebusFarm supports customers via 2 methods including live chat and email. RebusFarm says “Our experienced service team supports you and your render job 24/7”, but we do not receive their answer for a while after asking a question and the live chat sometimes is off-line and doesn’t receive the message from users.

When it comes to transparency with clients, we would like to mention in the field of Price and the Kind of Service that one render farm offers. We will take into consideration some smaller factors, for example, do they clearly state the cost for rendering or provide users with sufficient information related to the service that users are using or not?  Because the model of business that Fox render farm, Garagefarm, Ranch Computing, and Rebusfarm are following, which is SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). This model provides users with access to a vendor’s cloud-based software. All you need is to upload your job to their system and get the output after waiting for the render farm provider rendering. These 4 render farms all have intuitive and dynamic cost estimators. In which, users will provide information such as The name and versions of the software, the number of frames, the local computer configuration, rendering time on the user’s computer, etc. From there, it will give you an estimated cost and render time when using their render farm. They all operate on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. That means you are only paying for what you have used. No other hidden cost. That’s the aspect that renderfarms are transparent with their customers. 

However, from the experience of using many different render farms from small to big projects, we can all understand that all the estimation is just relative and the cost can be higher in almost all cases, even double or triple the beginning estimation is normal. Garage farm has a note for users that the estimates provided by the calculator may not be accurate and users should do an actual test on the farm instead”. So do Fox renderfarm, Ranch, and Rebusfarm, they say that the Cost Calculator is a rough estimation and recommend users send 2-3 test frames to verify render time and costs. Moreover, admittedly, users will not know what exact machine specs are. Any render farm can do marketing campaigns and show that their machine specs are the cutting edge CPUs and GPUs, but who knows what they currently own in their render farm.

Moreover, another aspect that makes users confused is The Pricing quotation of those render farms. Due to the various generations of hardware, online render farms try to find a common calculator for Rendering Benchmark. Fox renderfarm, GarageFarm, RanchComputing and RebusFarm are showing their price per GHz hour or Core hour for CPU pricing and OBh for GPU Rendering Benchmark. This cost calculation is confusing for a first-time user. Users often find it hard to understand how the render farm pricing works and render farms find it hard to estimate the rendering cost. We have an article analysing clearly How the renderfarm pricing works if you might be interested in. 

The one that is highly appreciated in terms of radically transparency with Clients is iRender. The costs are also based on the usage known as a “Pay-as-you-go” model. iRender only charges the usage time, without any hidden costs. While users may be confused and do not know exactly what SaaS-based render farms offer in terms of hardware (both CPU and GPU). Things changed when it comes to this render farm, the one with IaaS-based. Customers can simply check CPU & GPU specs, machine configurations once users connect with their servers. 

Apparently, a concise and clear return policy gives customers a feeling of security; that what they are paying is guaranteed to be what it is represented to be. And in actual use, if users have rendering problems or for some reason cannot render and request a refund, how that render farm will behave is still a mystery until you actually experience their service. All the 5 render farms state clearly their Refund/Return policy on their websites that Users all have a possibility to test the Service using trial credits and can use trial credits to get familiar with the software and to get a cost and time estimation before committing. They provide relevant documentation that is easily accessible. It covers all necessary aspects of the software to aid you in becoming a competent user of the Service. And in case that users are not completely happy with the quality and results obtained through the Service, users can contact the support and request an explanation within specific days after completed usage. They will investigate your case and will present their position. They all declare that in case of a mistake or a technical issue on render farm’s side, they will offer a full or partial refund or some other form of compensation. 

In order to understand and test the refund process for customers of these render farms, we have signed up for a personal account, depositing the account as usual. Transfer the files to each render farm and start the rendering process. However those files already contain some errors that cause the files to not be rendered or the output of the render files have errors, or crash. From doing this, we could check the customer supportability of the customer service team and the technicians of each farm. Most importantly, to see if we ask for a refund of the deposited amount, how will these render farms behave?

During our usage on Garagefarm, if there are any problems or questions, we can reach them through their live chat to describe the problem we are facing, they answer us almost immediately, check the system, and send us any documentation or guide to solve the problem. When we submitted a refund request, they agreed to refund in good faith. The refund process is not so complicated and time-consuming. According to the terms of their return treatment, users will receive a response to their refund request within no more than 14 days of submitting the refund request. But it didn’t take that long, within a few hours we received their refund receipt.

When it comes to  Fox renderfarm, their refund process is quite convenient for customers in which they use Skype. As referred to at the beginning, our test files have some errors that make the files can’t be rendered. While uploading, their system could detect some errors on our files but surprisingly we didn’t receive any support from their technicians to fix these errors. They told us to review the files and fix them ourselves. When we asked for a refund, they first informed us that they couldn’t refund for the quite unreasonable reason: “It is very complicated to make a refund, and our bank often checks it and refuses to do it.” and recommended that we should leave the credits for future use. After we insisted on requesting it, they agreed to a refund. The entire refund process takes 5 days. 

Next is iRender. This render farm treats customers quite nicely and flexibly. As stated above, an iRender staff, called Customer Support, will directly support users via any messaging app that is convenient for users. Once we tell their customer support that we have an issue related to rendering and describe the issue, the technician guys will connect with the server (with our permission) to check, support, and consult us to fix the problem directly and immediately. All the credits that were spent for checking will be added back to the user’s account. This is like how they state they only charge you for the time users use their machine and can render normally. We did ask for a refund of the amount that we bought. We quickly received their apology for the issue that we had. They refunded our deposit only a few hours after our refund request in an atmosphere of openness and goodwill. Even more surprising, in addition to refunding the amount we deposited, they still gave us the exact amount of iRpoints we deposited to our account so that we can use it for upcoming projects. Truly excellent! This is really a smart way that few render farms can do today. They don’t put the short-term profit first and can both satisfy customers and retain customers for future usage.

Ranch Computing also treats customers nicely. As referred above, users can reach their customer support via 2 methods including Email or Skype. However, Skype is also not highly recommended by them. If you get into any trouble or want to request a refund, you need to send them an email that describes what problem you are experiencing, the project number, the version of the software and render engines that you are using, etc, so that they can easily forward it to their technical team. The refund process is also quite fast. We will have to wait for Ranch to investigate what went wrong first to understand and find a solution. First, they offered to refund the render points to our account. But when we insisted on getting a refund in cash, they agreed and the whole refund process lasted within one and a half days.

The last one is Rebusfarm. It’s quite convenient for customers in terms of contacting for a refund because they proceed with the refund right on their live chat. They agreed to refund in the form of cash, not render points. However, from the time they agreed to refund, the user’s account will be immediately deducted to 0 render points while they didn’t even ensure when they will proceed with the refund, they said that “when the responsible apartment had the time to refund, they will do it”. They also did not provide any receipt or proof of refund despite our request. The only way to know if we have been refunded is to wait until the money has actually been deposited into our account.

Last but not least, Security and Privacy regulation is one of the important factors that need to be considered. It does really matter, especially for large studios, or major film and cinematic producers, or even individuals if your project contains sensitive material. Does the render farm that you have been using put the customer’s security and privacy as their priority? How can users be sure that all of their information is kept confidential? Is that render farm recognized by reputable organizations in the world for information security or not? If your company or studio has strict and high requirements for privacy, this part is for you. All those 5 render farms provide users with full, clear, transparent dedicated information regarding their Terms and Conditions, Privacy and Confidentiality Policy, files storage, etc on their official websites. Moreover,  all these 5 renderfarm have Non-disclosure agreements available for customers to protect their rights and interests. 

As we all know, content and data security have always been a global concern in general and in the movie and TV industry especially.  We have seen a serial high-profile pre-release leak in 2017 which caused huge damage to Hollywood’s major production studios and to the health of the whole industry. Therefore, a prestigious render farm needs an assessment process with detailed security requirements on the physical security, asset management, content life-cycle, enterprise security, risk assessment, policy & procedures, human resources processes, and most importantly, infrastructure. Fox renderfarm and iRender have sent us the copy of their certification to prove that they are both ISO 27001 certified. Fox is also a TPN accredited provider, which ensures that these 2 renderfarm keep users’ information safe and secure. For Garagefarm, Ranch Computing, and Rebusfarm, we did research on their websites but no information was found. We also contacted their customer support to get more information but got no answer. Some said that they need more time to answer our question and will let us know as fast as possible but still got no response until now.

This article is written based on what the Radarrender team has been using the render farms services, then rate and review them unbiasedly. It should come as no surprise that the render farm rankings changed with our previous reviews. It is because every 3-6 months, we reuse the render farms and update the rankings.

If we are missing a recommendation for your specific use case or you have any questions, feel free to comment below or send us an email via admin@radarrender.com.

In the article today, let’s explore the top 5 best render farms for CPU and GPU with Radarrender!

To render a 3D project, animations and visualizations have to be calculated to define light, reflections, or shadows. For this calculation process, time and computing performance is required besides 3D applications.  

Averagely, animation with a length of 1 second consists of 30 single frames. It means that 1800 single frames are an average number calculated for a sequence with a length of 1 minute. It can take from seconds to minutes or even hours to calculate a single frame depending on the complexity of the scene. Complex scenes with complex lighting, texture calculations require much time to complete calculating frames. For instance, a local computer that can render a single frame of a complex scene within 10 minutes, needs approximately 13 days to calculate 1800 frames. The computer runs at full capacity and it is unlikely to use during this time. 

Investing in a robust workstation or render farm needs a huge amount of money and in some cases, it is quite money-wasting when not utilizing the maximum of render farm’s power. Besides purchasing powerful hardware, you need to pay for electric bills, maintenance costs, and software licenses for each node. 

Therefore, the use of a render farm is very helpful for these cases. Some obvious benefits you would get from using a render farm are Time and Cost.

Easy of use

A group of UI / UX platforms supports App, 3d App Plugin, Web?

A group of pipelines and workflow is good in that the usability results can be easily integrated.

A group of upload speed/ upload projects, join with FTP, sFTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, One Driver, etc.

SaaS vs IaaS

IaaS-based render farms offer full control of remote servers and allow customers to install any software as well as customize the projects if needed (Suitable for complex pipeline and large projects)

SaaS-based render farms are more simple to use, however, end-users are not able to adjust the project when there’s a problem while rendering (Suitable for straightforward workflow and smaller projects)

Compatibility with software versions and plugins

Look at supported software, plugins, render engines (more or less, speed update)

Price 

A group of price, actual expense, implicit cost, estimate cost

Rendering speed

How many nodes are being used to render your job?

Which CPU & GPU types are offered?

Others

A group of analyzing speed and datalog (report), price & time estimation

A group of support services: Quick response, several supporting methods, with human participants or not, etc.), truly working 24/7.

The criteria of discount, promotion, regularity, trial, etc.

The criteria of security, policy, and guidelines on the protection of privacy.

The criteria of payment methods, claim and refund.

• Offer both CPU and GPU cloud services
• Free $5 render credit to try their service out after you create an iRender account
• IaaS functionality that allows users to take full control of the physical servers
• Support any application running on Windows or Ubuntu OS
• Robust and powerful machines with cutting-edge GPUs (RTX series) that are detailed transparently on the remote servers
• Support a transfer data tool at no charge
• Support storing users’ workspaces
• Support NVLink for RTX 3090 and RTX 4090 cards
• 24/7 support
• Generous discounts
• Reasonable price
• In particular, this is the only best render farms in the top 5 that supports software using single-GPU, LUMION as a typical example. And about the multi-GPUs? Actually, they are also the one of few render farms that support special software such as Nvidia Iray, Nvidia Omniverse,…

• Limited FAQ documentation
• IaaS functionality only

• Offer both CPU and GPU cloud services
• Free $25 render credit to try their service out after you create an account
• Support 2 types of submission: Web submit and Desktop Client submit (Windows, Linux OS)
• Support a huge number of main 3D software and renderers
• Affordable price
• 24/7 support
• Well-documented FAQ and tutorials

• Complicated UI/UX and scene upload
• Hardware details missing
• SaaS functionality only

• Offers both GPU and CPU render farm services
• Each new registrant receives a free trial of 25 RenderPoints for cloud rendering worth 30.01 $
• Friendly UI/UX interface and easy to upload the scene files
• A large number of supported 3D packages
• Reasonable prices and frequent discounts
• Accurate online price calculator
• 24/7 support
• Well documented FAQ and tutorials
• Great support for CPU-based rendering

• SaaS functionality only

• Offers both GPU and CPU render farm services
• Web-based scene upload system, so you could potentially send in scenes to be rendered from any device with access to a browser with easy-to-use addons that integrate into various software packages.
• Reasonable prices.
• Offer a 30€ free trial when you contact them after registering
• Well-documented FAQ and tutorials.

• GPU hardware details obscured.
• SaaS functionality only.
• The Ranch does currently not support frame numbers greater than 9999.
• No 24-hour customer support

• Offers both GPU and CPU render farm services.
• Reasonable prices.
• A good number of supported 3D packages.
• Free $25 render credit for SaaS-based render farm
• Well-documented tutorials and a great forum.
• Offers both IaaS and SaaS functionality
• 24/7 support

• Limited animation-only cost calculator.
• Complicated UI/UX and scene upload
• Currently doesn’t support OctaneRender through SaaS.
• Not support a free transfer data for IaaS users

Refer to what we have been using render farms for Blender, there are top 4 best blender render farms following:

• Renderstreet
• Tresorio
• iRender
• Garage Farm

Radarrender tested and chosen the top 4 Redshift Render Farms for 3D software such as Maya, Cinema4D, Houdini, and so on.

• iRender
• Rebus Farm
• Fox Render Farm
• RanchComputing

According to what we reviewed and rated, there are 2 best render farms for Lumion, Twinmotion, Enscape, or Keyshot which are rendered based on a single GPU card.

• iRender
• AWS

This article is written based on what the Radarrender team has been using the 5 best render farms 2022 services, then rate and review them. Besides, we also refer to the review of CGDirector. It should come as no surprise that the render farm rankings changed with our previous reviews. It is because every 3-6 months, we reuse the render farms and update the rankings.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below or send us an email via admin@radarrender.com.

See more: 7 best render farms comparison

3Dプロジェクトをレンダリングするには、アニメーションと視覚化を計算して、光、反射、または影を定義しなければなりません。この計算プロセスでは、3Dアプリケーションに加えて時間とコンピューティングパフォーマンスが必要です。

平均して、1秒の長さのアニメーションは30個の単一フレームで構成されます。これは、1800の単一フレームが1分の長さのシーケンスに対して計算された平均数であることを意味します。シーンの複雑さに応じて、1つのフレームを計算するのに数秒から数分または数時間かかる場合があります。複雑な照明、テクスチャの計算を伴う複雑なシーンは、フレームの計算を完了するのに多くの時間を必要とします。たとえば、複雑なシーンの単一フレームを10分以内にレンダリングできるローカルコンピューターでは、1800フレームを計算するのに約13日かかります。コンピューターはフル稼働しており、この期間中は使用できません。

強力なワークステーションまたはレンダーファームに投資するには莫大な金額が必要であり、場合によっては、レンダーファームの能力を最大限に活用しないと、かなりの費用が無駄になります。強力なハードウェアを購入するだけでなく、各ノードの電気代、メンテナンスコスト、およびソフトウェアライセンスを支払う必要があります。

したがって、レンダーファームの使用は、これらの場合に非常に役立ちます。レンダーファームを使用することで得られる明らかな利点には、時間とコストがあります。

使いやすい

UI / UXプラットフォームのグループは、アプリ、3Dアプリプラグイン、Webをサポートしています。

パイプラインとワークフローのグループは、ユーザビリティの結果が簡単に統合できるという点で優れています。

設定のグループ：ファイルのパッキング、検証をサポートするフル設定、詳細など。

FTP、sFTP、dropbox、google drive, one driveなどでアップロード速度・複数、1つのプロジェクトのアップロードのグループ。

SaaS vs IaaS

IaaSベースのレンダーファームは、リモートサーバーの完全な制御を提供し、顧客が任意のソフトウェアをインストールし、必要に応じてプロジェクトをカスタマイズできるようにします（複雑なパイプラインや大規模なプロジェクトに適しています）。

SaaSベースのレンダーファームはより簡単に使用できますが、レンダリング中に問題が発生した場合、エンドユーザーはプロジェクトを調整できません（簡単なワークフローや小規模なプロジェクトに適しています）。

ソフトウェアバージョンおよびプラグインとの互換性

サポートされているソフトウェア、プラグイン、レンダリングエンジンを見てください。

価格

価格、実際の費用、暗黙のコスト、見積もりコストのグループ。

レンダリング速度

ジョブのレンダリングに使用されているノードの数はいくつですか？

どのCPUとGPUタイプが提供されていますか？

その他

速度とデータログ（レポート）の分析、価格と時間の見積もりのグループ。

サポートサービスのグループ：迅速な対応、いくつかのサポート方法、人間の参加者の有無など、本当に24時間年中無休で働いています。

割引、プロモーション、規則性、試用などの基準。

セキュリティ、ポリシー、およびプライバシーの保護に関するガイドラインの基準。

支払い方法、請求、返金の基準。

• CPUとGPUのクラウドサービスを両方提供する。
• iRenderアカウントを作成した後、無料の5ドルのレンダリングクレジットでサービスを試すことができる。
• ユーザーが物理サーバーを完全に制御できるようにするIaaS機能。
• WindowsまたはUbuntu OSで実行されているすべてのアプリケーションをサポートする。
• リモートサーバー上で明確に詳細化される最先端のGPU（RTXシリーズ）を備えた堅牢で強力なマシン。
• データ転送ツールを無料でサポートする。
• ユーザーのワークスペースの保存をサポートする。
• RTX 2080TiおよびRTX 3090カードのNVLinkをサポートする。
• 24時間年中無休のサポート。
• 多くの割引。
• リーズナブルな価格。
• 特に、これは、典型的な例としてLUMION、シングルGPUを使用するソフトウェアをサポートするトップ5の唯一のレンダーファームです。 そして、マルチGPUについてはどうですか？ 実際、これらはNvidia Iray、Nvidia Omniverseなどの特別なソフトウェアをサポートする数少ないレンダーファームの1つでもあります。

• 限られたFAQドキュメント。
• IaaS機能のみ。

• CPUとGPUのクラウドサービスを両方提供する。
• アカウントを作成した後、無料の25ドルのレンダリングクレジットでサービスを試すことができる。
• 2種類の送信のサポート：Web送信とデスクトップクライアント送信（Windows、Linux OS）。
• たくさんの主要な3Dソフトウェアとレンダラーをサポートする。
• 手頃な価格。
• 24時間年中無休のサポート。
• 十分に文書化されたFAQとチュートリアル。

• 複雑なUI / UXとシーンのアップロード。
• ハードウェアの詳細がない。
• SaaS機能のみ。

• GPUとCPUのレンダーファームサービスを両方提供する。
• 新規登録者はそれぞれ、クラウドレンダリング用に01ドル相当の25 RenderPointsの無料トライアルを受け取る。
• フレンドリーなUI / UXインターフェースで、シーンファイルのアップロードが簡単。
• 多数のサポートされている3Dパッケージ。
• リーズナブルな価格と頻繁な割引。
• 正確なオンライン価格計算機。
• 24時間年中無休のサポート。
• 十分に文書化されたFAQとチュートリアル。
• CPUベースのレンダリングの優れたサポート。

• SaaS機能のみ。

• GPUとCPUのレンダーファームサービスを両方提供する。
• Webベースのシーンアップロードシステム。そのため、さまざまなソフトウェアパッケージに統合された使いやすいアドオンを備えたブラウザにアクセスできる任意のデバイスからレンダリングされるようにシーンを送信できる。
• リーズナブルな価格。
• 登録後に連絡すると、30ユーロの無料トライアルを受け取る。
• 十分に文書化されたFAQとチュートリアル。

• GPUハードウェアの詳細が不明だ。
• SaaS機能のみ。
• RANCHCOMPUTINGは現在、9999を超えるフレーム番号をサポートしていない。
• 24時間のカスタマーサポートはない。

• GPUとCPUのレンダーファームサービスを両方提供する。
• リーズナブルな価格。
• 多数のサポートされている3Dパッケージ。
• SaaSベースのレンダーファームの無料の25ドルのレンダークレジット。
• 十分に文書化されたチュートリアルと素晴らしいフォーラム。
• IaaSとSaaSの機能を両方提供する。
• 24時間年中無休のサポート。

• 限られたアニメーションのみのコスト計算機。
• 複雑なUI / UXとシーンのアップロード。
• 現在、SaaSでOctaneRenderはサポートされていない。
• IaaSユーザー向けの無料データ転送ツールをサポートしていない。

私たちがBlenderに使用しているレンダーファームを参照して、以下はトップ4のベストBlenderレンダーファームであります。

• Renderstreet
• Tresorio
• iRender
• Garage Farm

Radarrenderは、Maya、Cinema4D、Houdiniなど、3Dソフトウェア用のトップ4のRedshiftレンダーファームをテストして選択しました。

• iRender
• Rebus Farm
• Fox Render Farm
• RanchComputing

私たちがレビューして評価したものによると、シングルGPUカードに基づいてレンダリングされる、Lumion、Twinmotion、Enscape、またはKeyshotに最適な2つのレンダーファームがあります。

• iRender
• AWS

このアーティクルは、Radarrenderチームがレンダーファームサービスを使用してきたことに基づいて書かれており、それらを評価してレビューします。 また、CGDirectorのレビューも参考にしています。 レンダーファームのランキングが以前のレビューで変更されたことは当然のことです。 これは、3〜6か月ごとに、レンダーファームを再利用し、ランキングを更新するためです。

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Blender is an open-source 3D creation software by Blender Foundation that enables users to work on every aspect of 3D work. It includes modeling, animation, game creation, visual effect, and many more. Blender is easy to download, customize and work your way within itself. The software also provides a large set of plugins that can be beneficial to creating various types of models, animations, sculptures, and so on.

Today we’re taking a look at the differences between Eevee and Cycles, and how they have different uses in the computer graphics world. Especially, we will be taking an in-depth look at the best render farms for Blender Eevee vs Cycles.

Eevee vs Cycles engine

First, we will figure out each individual factor to help you recognize the benefits and limitations of each render engine. According to Remington Creative, when it comes down to it comparing Evee vs Cycles is more or less just comparing Real-time vs Ray Tracing in general. So let’s take a look at those two.

Ray Tracing – Cycles

Ray Tracing (ex: cycles, octane, Optix): a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects.

So when it comes to time-oriented work, ray tracing engines are not the most effective.

Real Time – Eevee

Real-time rendering is the process of using the same techniques you’ve been using for years for visualization—modeling, materials, lighting, and animation—but with the traditional rendering process replaced with a render engine that has the capability to render on the fly, in real-time.

So what do real-time engines hold over ray tracing engines? 

To sum up, what is each best for and which one best suits you? Well, if you’re planning on making something VFX or CGI oriented that need to be very realistic and absolutely stunning, we would strongly recommend you use a ray-tracing engine such as Cycles. Because it provides a much more photorealistic image and gives you a lot more control over what you’re working with. 

However. if you’re planning on either doing things that involve work with real-time engines such as GAME design or VISUALIZATION, we would highly recommend using a real-time engine such as Eevee because they’re very useful for that and they have a lot of great capabilities available for that purpose.

Best Render Farms for Blender Eevee vs Cycles

In case you choose Eevee which is an OpenGL engine, Eevee only uses the power of the GPU to render while Cycles can be supported to render in both CPU and GPU ways. In addition, those render engines even work better with multi graphics cards at the same time. It might take hours (maybe even days) to finish rendering an image due to the traditional CPU-based rendering if you choose Cycles CPU. Though rendering in GPUs is much faster, it requires powerful hardware or strong workstations that need to allocate a large number of sources. So, how can you render Blender projects with hundreds or even thousands of frames in minutes? The answer is by cloud rendering service where utilizes the power of many CPUs or GPUs to speed your render time.

Now, there are two main types of cloud rendering service which are based on an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model. IaaS render farms allows you to take full control of powerful remote servers and do whatever you want with them. This means that users enable to adjust and customize their scenes at the highest level which is suitable for studios, large projects with a complex production pipeline. Meanwhile, SaaS render farms are easier to use when you just need to prepare your job and upload it to the SaaS render farms, then submit it to render. However, you are not able to adjust your scene files if problems arise and it may take hours to fix errors on your local computer then send the file back to the render farm to re-render. As a result, SaaS render farms should be used for straightforward projects with a simple production pipeline.

When using a CPU or GPU-accelerated cloud rendering service to render your files, you may find that some render farms do not support Blender’s internal rendering engines Cycles or Eevee. However, we will take an in-depth look at the best render farms in both SaaS and IaaS models that support both Eevee vs Cycles. 

We planned to make a render test on iRender Farm (representative for the IaaS-based render farm) and Rebus Farm & Fox Render Farm (representatives for SaaS-based render farm). We brought the same Blender file to these cloud rendering services which was set up to render via Cycles GPU render engine. We would run a test with rendering 10 frames on the aforementioned render farms.

iRender Farm – Best Render Farm for Blender

1. 1x RTX 3090

To commence, we made a test on iRender Farm with the Blender file that used Cycles GPU render engine. This cloud rendering service offers a wide range of GPU types and packages which vary depends on the number of GPUs. We chose the package with 1x RTX 3090, let’s take a look at its specs below:

Thanks to the IaaS model, we could get access to the machine and check whether they really support RTX 3090 card, strong motherboard, RAM or not. And iRender is a trusted brand name. On top of that, we could take control of the robust machine and customize the scene files to know how they are rendered while utilizing the power of a single GPU or multi GPUs.

As we all know, installing Blender is pretty fast, it just took around 5 minutes to do it, extra 4 minutes to set up the Blender file. Here is the testing result we got on the 1x RTX 3090 machine from iRender:

 

+ The total number of frames: 10

+ The boot time: 10 minutes (not be charged)

+ The installing software time: 5 minutes (one time only)

+ The setting file time: 3 minutes

+ The render time: 16 minutes

+ Cost: $1,524

As you can see in the following image, we were able to know it took approximately 1 minute 40 seconds to render a single frame and the total render time was only 16 minutes for 10 frames. The boot time on iRender Farm is not charged.

→  Average: $0,10/frame/1,6 minutes (the boot time and installing time not included)

2. 6x RTX 2080Ti

The second rental package we would like to test on iRender Farm is 6x RTX 2080Ti. Blender supports rendering in multi graphics cards really well, as a result, we chose 6x RTX 2080Ti in a single machine to test its performance. As you can see in the following image, we could check its specs and there were 6x RTX 2080Ti, precise specification. The render speed is much faster than that of 1x RTX 3090. There is no doubt that the render time in the machine with 6x RTX 2080Ti on the iRender system ranked first, compared to other render farms. Let’s figure it out.

+ The total number of frames: 10

+ The boot time: 10 minutes (not be charged)

+ The installing software time: 5 minutes (one time only)

+ The render time: 10 minutes

+ Cost: $2,225

It took an average of 1 minute to render a single frame and the total render time was only 10 minutes for 10 frames. The boot time on iRender Farm is not charged.

→  Average: $0,15/frame/01 minute (the boot time and installing time not included).

Rebus Farm

Next, we move to Rebus Farm which is representative of SaaS-based render farms. It is a famous and one of the best render farms for Blender.

We brought the same Blender file that tested on iRender Farm to Rebus Farm. Unlike the former, the latter is much more mysterious when we would not know what exact GPU and CPU were being used to render our scene. As their advertisement, on Rebus Farm, there are many RTX Quadro 6000 available to render files with GPU rendering. As far as we know, the power of RTX Quadro 6000 is really strong and can be compared to RTX 3080, 3090 from iRender farm. We also hoped that the rendering speed was at least the same as that of iRender Farm that we had tested previously. However, the result made us a little disappointed.

+ The total number of frames: 10

+ The upload time: 7 minutes (not be charged)

+ The queue time: 0,37 minutes

+ The render time: 30 minutes

+ Cost: $12,72

→  Average: $1,27/frame/3 minutes (the upload and queue time not be charged).

Fox Render Farm

Last but not least, we would like to make a Blender test on Fox Render Farm. Fox is another brand name for the SaaS model. However, the UI/UX of Fox is more challenging to use than that of Rebus Farm. It is one of the best render farms for Blender. Before submitting to render, you need to learn how to use this service as well as upload a file and set it up. We tested Blender with Cycle GPU render engine on the Fox system where they supported P102, GTX 1080, or GTX 1080Ti graphics cards. And the result is the following image.

+ The total number of frames: 10

+ The upload time: 7 minutes (not be charged)

+ The render time: 16 minutes

+ Cost: $2,2

→  Average: $0,22/frame/1,6 minutes (the upload not be charged).

In conclusion, the render time on iRender Farm is the shortest, at only 10 minutes on the 6x RTX 2080Ti machine, compared to 16 minutes on their 1x RTX 3090 which was equal to the render time of Fox Render Farm. Meanwhile, the cost we needed to pay for iRender is the lowest, at only $1,524, compared to $2,2 of Fox Render Farm which ranked second. Finally, the render time and cost of Rebus Farm is the highest, 30 minutes for 10 frames at $12,72 (8 times higher than that of iRender Farm).

In sum, the best render farms for Blender are above. If your Blender project is straightforward and does not make use of plugins, Fox Render Farm may suit you. On the other hand, iRender Farm should be definitely your choice when your project is larger or complicated with many plugins. iRender offers the fastest render time at the lowest price.

Blender is an open-source 3D creation software by Blender Foundation that enables users to work on every aspect of 3D work. It includes modeling, animation, game creation, visual effect, and many more. Blender is easy to download, customize and work your way within itself. The software also provides a large set of plugins that can be beneficial to creating various types of models, animations, sculptures, and so on.

Today we’re taking a look at the differences between Eevee and Cycles, and how they have different uses in the computer graphics world. Especially, we will be taking an in-depth look at best render farms for Blender Eevee vs Cycles.

See more: What Is The Best Blender EEVEE Render Farm?

Currently, render engines play a crucial role in 3D rendering and become a dispensable part. Apart from built-in systems such as Arnold, MentalRay, there are well-known render engines that speed up the rendering process dramatically, 10 or even 100 times faster than others. When opting for a render engine, you may self wonder whether this render engine is compatible with your software or not? Is it suitable for your needs? Is it easy to learn and use? Do you need to upgrade your hardware for this renderer? and so on. Today, Radarrender will look at the two fierce competitors in the renderer market: Redshift vs Octane. Let’s find out

• What Redshift vs Octane is?
• What pros and cons between Redshift vs Octane?
• Which cloud rendering service is suitable for Redshift vs Octane?

Redshift Rendering Technologies Inc was founded in early 2012 in California with the goal of developing a production-quality, GPU-accelerated renderer with support for the biased global illumination techniques that until now have remained squarely in the CPU-only domain. Redshift is now part of the Maxon family and is quickly becoming the go-to render engine for the motion design community. Redshift render engine supports a nice selection of 3D programs: Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D, Houdini, and Katana.

When it comes to Operating Systems, Redshift works on multiple platforms including:

• Windows 7, 8, 10 (64 bit)
• Linux Glibc 2.12 or higher (64 bit)
• MacOS El Capitan 10.11 or higher

5 main 3D software that Redshift is supporting with particular software versions are listed in detail as the following table:

There are 2 types of Redshift licenses: Node-Locked and Floating ones. 

• Node-locked licenses are tied to a specific machine but are hostable, that is they can be transferred from 1 machine to another using the Redshift licensing tool. Transferring a license requires a working internet connection on both the source and target of the transfer at the time of the license transfer. Node-locked licenses may be purchased directly from the Redshift website for immediate use.
• Floating licenses are dynamically allocated on demand from a pool of licenses managed by a license server running on your network to individual machines running Redshift. The number of floating licenses you have defines the number of machines that can use Redshift concurrently. Floating licenses are available by contacting sales. There is a 5 license minimum for floating licenses. Customers with existing Redshift floating licenses can add additional floating licenses with no minimum purchase. 

Let’s take a look at the following image to know more about Redshift Pricing

In addition, there are Annual Subscription and Monthly Subscription for Cinema 4D software that Redshift is compatible with

• Annual Subscription – $81.99 per month via Maxon
• Monthly Subscription License – $116.99 per month via Maxon

OctaneRender® is one of the world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engines, delivering quality and speed unrivaled by any production renderer on the market. As a product of Refractive Software, Octane was founded by Terrence Vergauwen, a key developer of LuxRender. In March 2012, Refractive Software was bought by Otoy which also has investment from Autodesk. Now, Octane is a member of the Otoy family. Octane supports many software such as 3Ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Daz Studio, Unreal Engine, and so on. 

When it comes to Operating Systems, Octane works on multiple platforms including:

• Windows 7, 8, 10 (64 bit)
• Linux (64 bit)
• MacOS 10.15 or higher

21 main 3D software that Octane is supporting with particular software versions are listed in detail as the following table:

There are 2 types of Octane licenses including Studio Subscription and Enterprise Subscription. 

• OctaneRender® Studio Subscriptions allow artists and studios full access to OTOY’s acclaimed OctaneRender VFX software and ecosystem through low monthly or annual subscription offerings on a maximum of 2 GPUs. Studio Subscription costs 19.99€/month and 198.96€/year.
• OctaneRender® Enterprise Subscriptions allow artists and studios full access to OTOY’s acclaimed OctaneRender VFX software and ecosystem through low monthly or annual subscription offerings with network and offline rendering support and enable them to use more than 2 GPUs. Enterprise Subscription costs 29.99€/month and 299.04€/year.

In terms of rendering stills, image quality is the first criterion. Waiting for 10 minutes or even an hour for a final render with the noise to clean up isn’t such a big deal. As a result, for stills, Octane is an ideal option. However in animations, you need at least 24 frames per second, so it adds up really fast and speed is way more important. For animations, Redshift seems to defeat Octane and be the first option. Furthermore, when you are working in a large 3D production environment, the need for an easily understandable workflow is absolutely necessary and has become more crucial than before. Therefore, if your studio integrates Redshift in the production pipeline, it would be extremely easy for 3D artists to translate their knowledge to this renderer and get used to it because the workflow is somehow similar to Vray or Arnold. 

If using Redshift, you need to invest a large amount of money while Octane requires robust hardware to avoid being crash. It is likely that your local computer or your budget may not meet all requirements. It’s time for you to think of using a cloud rendering service. In the market, there are two main types of cloud rendering service which are based on an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model. IaaS render farms allows you to take full control of powerful remote servers and do whatever you want with them. This means that users enable to adjust and customize their scenes at the highest level which is suitable for studios, large projects with a complex production pipeline. Meanwhile, SaaS render farms are easier to use when you just need to prepare your job and upload it to the SaaS render farms, then submit it to render. However, you are not able to adjust your scene files if problems arise and it may take hours to fix errors on your local computer then send the file back to the render farm to re-render. As a result, SaaS render farms should be used for straightforward projects with a simple production pipeline.

Based on what we reviewed and rated top render farms currently, Radarrender chose 2 representatives for the two aforementioned rendering service types. In detail, iRender Farm represents the IaaS rendering service while that of SaaS is Rebus Farm. Both render farms got the highest marks with 3 stars by Radarrender. Please read more detail in the Review section: Rate and Review iRender Farm vs Rate and Review Rebus Farm

From our experience, you should not believe in the estimator of render farms. The most accurate way to know exactly how it charges your project is actually rendering a few frames on the render farm. And here’s the render time, costs as well as the final results we got from iRender Farm & Rebus Farm. 

We would bring the identical C4D & Redshift file that was rendered on our local machine with 1x GTX 1060 to test it on Rebus Farm and iRender Farm. On our locals, it took 2,5 minutes to render a frame for the C4D & Redshift file.

First, we made a test on Rebus Farm in terms of Cinema 4D software and Redshift render engine. We sent the scene file to the Rebus system and let their farm render our job.

+ The total number of frames: 11

+ The queue time: 11,42 minutes

+ The render time: 26,75 minutes

+ Cost: $1,19

→  Average: $0,11/frame/2,43 minutes (the queue time not included)

We could not know which GPU type was used for rendering as well as customize and take control of the job. According to Rebus advertisement, there are Quadro 6000 graphics cards on their farm. However, it seems that the render speed on Rebus Farm machines is just 4,2 seconds quicker than that of our local machine with only 1x GTX 1060.

Next, we made a test on iRender Farm with the same file that we tested on Rebus Farm. This cloud rendering service offers a wide range of GPU types, as a result, we would like to test on a 6x RTX 2080Ti machine and a 6x RTX 3090Ti machine. Thanks to the IaaS model, we can take control of these robust machines and customize the scene files to know how they are rendered while utilizing the power of multi GPUs.

It took 15 minutes to install all Cinema 4D software and Redshift renderer we needed. Fortunately, we just needed to do it for the first usage because iRender would save installed data that are available for the next time. Unlike other IaaS render farms, iRender Farm also supports Redshift licensing, so we didn’t have to allocate such a great amount of money for purchasing Redshift licenses.

The testing result on the 6x RTX 2080Ti:

+ The total number of frames: 11

+ The boot time: 10 minutes

+ The installing software time: 15 minutes (one time only)

+ The setting file time: 3,67 minutes

+ The render time: 1,33 minute

+ Cost: 3,13$

As you can see in the following image, we were able to know it took 6 seconds to render a frame and the total render time was only 1,33 minutes for 11 frames. The boot time on iRender Farm is somehow similar to the queue time on Rebus Farm.

→  Average: $0,07/frame/6 seconds (the boot time and installing time not included)

We also used the 6x RTX 3090 machine. For the second time, we did not need to install Cinema 4D and Redshift again. Admittedly, the render time on the 6x RTX 3090 machine was still 1,33 minute, equal to that of the 6x RTX 2080Ti machine. The usage time was only 7 minutes, so it cost $2,732 for rendering 11 frames. Therefore, we should make a test with a larger project on the 6x RTX 3090 machine to see the dramatic differences between RTX 2080Ti and RTX 3090.

See more:

1. Best render farm for Octane
2. Best render farm for Redshift