How blender.farm works

What happens between dropping a .blend and getting frames back, and which parts of that you pay for.

blender.farm renders Blender scenes on cloud RTX 5090 machines. You send a .blend plus whatever it needs, a GPU machine boots, renders your frame range, and streams finished frames back to your browser while it works.

Nothing is installed on your side except, optionally, the Blender add-on. There is no queue system to learn and no render manager to configure.

Two ways to send a scene

Browser dashboardno install

Drop a .blend on dashboard.blender.farm. Your browser reads the file locally, shows you what it contains, and asks for anything missing. Best when the scene is packed or has few external files.

Blender add-onrecommended for big scenes

Submit straight from Blender. It finds textures, caches, linked libraries and VDB sequences by asking Blender itself, so nothing gets missed, and it streams multi-GB files from disk instead of through browser memory. See Install the add-on.

What happens after you press launch

1. 1
   Your files go straight to storageThe browser or add-on uploads directly to cloud storage with pre-signed links. File bytes never pass through our servers.
2. 2
   A GPU machine is rentedWe rent an RTX 5090 pod for this job alone. If the machine gets taken by someone else mid-request, we retry on another one automatically, up to four times.
3. 3
   Your scene is rebuilt on the podThe .blend is downloaded, every external path inside it is repointed at the copy we uploaded, your custom add-ons are installed and your OCIO config is activated.
4. 4
   Blender rendersCycles is pushed onto OPTIX (falling back to CUDA), denoising is routed to the GPU, and persistent data is switched on so the scene stays in VRAM between frames.
5. 5
   Frames come back as they finishEach finished frame uploads immediately and appears in the live view. You do not wait for the whole animation to download the first frame.
6. 6
   The pod is destroyedAs soon as the last frame is in, the machine is torn down automatically so nothing keeps billing. Your frames and logs stay for 30 days.

What you actually pay for

Only the time Blender spends rendering. Uploading, waiting for a machine, installing add-ons and downloading results are all free. Details on Credits and billing.