blender.farm vs Fox Renderfarm
Figures read from their pricing page and their membership scheme on 1 September 2026.
- $1.80 → $0.90their published GPU rate per node hour, top tier to bottom
- $10,000accumulated recharge to reach the tier they mark Recommended
- 1 rateours, from your first job, on a card we name
What the rate depends on
Their GPU pricing, reproduced as published. The rate is not a function of the job. It is a function of how much you have already spent with them.
| Tier | Per node, per hour | Unlocked by |
|---|---|---|
| Ordinary | $1.80 | New accounts |
| Silver | $1.44 | Accumulated recharge over $500 |
| Gold | $1.26 | Accumulated recharge over $2,000 |
| Platinum | $1.08 | Accumulated recharge over $5,000 |
| DiamondRecommended | $0.90 | Accumulated recharge over $10,000 |
Every new account renders at $1.80 per node per hour. The rate improves as you spend, and the lowest one is reached at ten thousand dollars.
Ours is around $3.00 per render hour on your first job and $2.25 on the largest credit pack, which costs $149.99. It does not move with what you have spent before.
Their rate is per node per hour, and their own documentation states a GPU node is two GPU cards. Ours is per render hour on one card. Those are different units and are deliberately never printed side by side on this page: a job spread over five nodes bills five nodes, so the only honest comparison is the cost of a completed job, which their cost estimator gives directly.
Knowing the cost
Fox Renderfarm
- 1Render frames locally to get an average frame time
- 2Enter your own GPU model and card count
- 3Enter frames, frame time and node count
- 4Read five prices, one per membership tier
Their estimator states that actual fees may vary, and recommends signing up and spending the $25 coupon on test frames for a more accurate figure.
blender.farm
- 1Install the add-on
- 2It reads your .blend
- 3Time and cost
One number, before you spend anything, and it does not change with how much you have spent before.
Side by side
| blender.farm | Fox Renderfarm | |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 5090, 32 GB. Every render, named before you start. | Not named. A GPU node is two cards, by their own documentation. |
| Pricing unit | Flat rate per render hour, 5-minute blocks | Per node hour, where a node is two GPU cards |
| Rate tiers | None. One rate, from your first job. | Five, unlocked by accumulated recharge from $500 to $10,000 |
| Knowing the cost first | The add-on reads your .blend and returns an estimate | Cost estimator, after a local frame time, with test frames recommended |
| Free trial | 10 credits, about 3h 20m | $25 free trial coupon |
| Blender versions | 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, matched to your file | 2.63 or later |
| Engines | Cycles (OPTIX, CUDA) and EEVEE | Cycles and EEVEE, plus Redshift, V-Ray and Turbo Tools |
| Other software | Blender only | Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Unreal and more |
| CPU rendering | None. GPU only. | Yes, priced separately per node hour |
| Submitting | Browser upload or a native Blender add-on | Blender add-on, one-click submit |
| Compliance | Uploads go straight to object storage. The machine is destroyed with everything on it when the job ends. | TPN-accredited, ISO 27001, NDAs available |
| Support | Discord and email | 24/7 support |
Where blender.farm wins
- One rate from the first job. No membership tier, no accumulated spend, nothing to unlock. Their lowest published rate is reached at ten thousand dollars of recharge.
- The card is named. Every render here is a full RTX 5090 with 32 GB. Their pricing pages name no GPU model at all, and describe a node only as two cards.
- You know the cost before you spend anything. The add-on reads your .blend and estimates time and cost. No local test render, no coupon spent on test frames to find out.
- Priced per render hour, not per node hour. A job spread across cards is billed for the render time it used, not for the number of machines that were standing by. Automatic splitting is in the add-on next.
- Your exact Blender version. Matched to your file, or the job is refused rather than approximated. Geometry nodes behave the way they do locally.
- Billing only while Blender runs. Uploading, downloading and sitting idle cost nothing.
- Frames stream back as they finish, so a wrong camera shows up in frame two, not at the end.
What they cover and we do not
- Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Unreal, with Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and the rest. We run stock Blender on purpose.
- CPU rendering at scale, alongside GPU. We are GPU only.
- A large fleet and sixteen years of operating history, with support built for studio pipelines. We are new and we answer on Discord.
- TPN accreditation, ISO 27001 and NDAs on request. If your client requires an audited pipeline, that is a real reason to pick them and we do not have an answer to it.
- A genuinely good rate at volume. A studio that has spent ten thousand dollars renders at $0.90 per node hour. If that is you, the tiers work in your favour.
- Blender 2.63 and later. We start at 4.4.3.
- A $25 trial coupon, against our 10 credits. What it buys in render hours depends on your tier and how many nodes your job takes, so we do not state it in hours.
One rate, on a named card, from your first render.
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