| ArchViz engines | V-Ray, Corona (CPU), Redshift (GPU), and Arnold; all engine licenses included. Octane is ready for Cinema 4D and provisioned on request for Blender, Houdini, 3ds Max and Maya, so contact us to confirm before you upload. | Varies; some require you to bring or manage your own license |
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| Large-scene plugins | Forest Pack, RailClone, and Anima supported as standard | Plugin support varies; large scatter scenes may need manual setup |
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| Stills + animation | Both — stills render in parallel, animation distributes frame by frame | Both, though frame-parallel scaling varies by provider |
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| Fully managed | Yes — no remote desktop, no manual installs, no license servers | Many farms are IaaS: you remote in, install software, and manage licenses yourself |
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| Pricing model | Credit-based: $0.004 / GHz-hr for CPU, $0.003 / OctaneBench-hour for GPU; no plan tiers | Subscription tiers, per-frame, or raw hourly machine rental — models differ |
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| Free trial | $25 free credit on signup | Varies; some offer trial credit, some do not |
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| Credit expiry | Purchased credits never expire | Often time-limited or "use it or lose it" |
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| Output retention | Available for download; no fixed automatic deletion period | Varies by provider |
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| File transfer | Web upload (slow above roughly 2 GB and unreliable above roughly 5 GB on residential connections), plus the Client App or S3 access for larger scenes; upload the project folder unpacked (no archive is extracted) | Web upload and/or SFTP; format and integration support varies |
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| Company & accountability | A US company — Super Renders Farm LLC, Santa Ana, CA. US billing (USD), a US support phone line (001-714-383-0800), and US legal jurisdiction | Varies by provider — many render farms are based outside the US |
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