Render smarter, not harder.

A render farm service is a cloud-based network of render nodes that takes 3D rendering off your local workstation. RenderSonic is an online render farm service built for artists - submit a job from Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, KeyShot or Cinema 4D and get your frames back automatically, without renting or managing servers yourself.

A render farm splits a job across many computers (render nodes) so frames render in parallel instead of one after another. With RenderSonic you submit from inside your 3D app, the scene and its assets are synced to the cloud nodes, and finished frames are delivered back to your local output folder.

For animations and batches, usually much faster: a 300-frame animation that takes 10 minutes per frame locally needs 50 hours on one machine, while a farm renders many of those frames at the same time. The exact speed-up depends on the scene and the hardware you choose.

RenderSonic bills per second of server time, shown as a rate per GHz-hour, with no subscription or reservation. You see an upfront cost and time estimate before you submit, and live spend per frame while the job runs - see the Pricing section for the current rate.

RenderSonic uses prepaid credits, bought through Stripe with any payment method Stripe supports. Credits never expire, and you're only billed per second for the server time your jobs actually use.

If frames fail because of a problem on our side, we offer a full or partial refund or an equivalent credit. Claims must be made within 14 days of the job completing. Failures caused by errors in your scene, or by bugs in third-party 3D software, aren't refunded.

A GHz-hour (GHzh) is the standard unit render farms use to price CPU time: one gigahertz of processor capacity running for one hour. A node with 32 cores at 3 GHz delivers 96 GHz, so one hour on it is 96 GHzh. Multiplying GHz-hours by the rate gives the cost.

You choose CPU or GPU nodes for every job. GPU nodes (NVIDIA RTX 5090, 4090, 3090 and A4000) are fastest for GPU-accelerated engines when the scene fits in video memory. CPU nodes (AMD EPYC, AMD Ryzen and Intel Xeon) suit very large scenes and CPU-only engines such as Corona.

Render nodes have 128 GB of system RAM, and AMD EPYC servers with 256 GB are available for very large scenes. GPU nodes run NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB VRAM), RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 (24 GB) and RTX A4000 (16 GB).

There's no fixed number. RenderSonic scales capacity automatically with the overall queue and load, so a job may be picked up by 2 nodes or by 200, with its frames spread across them.

Usually within minutes. Cost estimates and preview frames are prioritized so you can check a job before committing to it, and more nodes are added automatically when the queue grows.

Blender (3.x, 4.x and 5.x), 3ds Max, Maya, KeyShot and Cinema 4D are all fully supported. Supported render engines include Cycles, Eevee, V-Ray, Arnold, Corona, Redshift, ART, Scanline, Maya Software and KeyShot's native renderer.

Yes - all plugins are supported, including Forest Pack, RailClone, tyFlow, Geo-Scatter, FLIP Fluids, X-Particles, Yeti and Golaem. Each software page lists the available ones; if yours isn't listed, tell us and we'll add it. Bake simulation caches before submitting.

RenderSonic runs on Windows 10 or 11 with an active internet connection. No dedicated GPU is required locally - the heavy lifting happens on the cloud render nodes.

Automatically. Finished frames are delivered straight into your local output folder the moment they complete - there is nothing to download by hand.

Yes. You can queue new renders from the RenderSonic app - switch between 720p, 1080p, 4K or custom resolutions, pick a camera or change the frame range - without reopening your 3D application.

Yes. A single RenderSonic account supports multiple user seats, so a whole team can submit jobs and monitor progress independently.

No. Uploading your scene and assets, and downloading finished frames back to your workstation, is included - you're only billed for the server time your job actually uses.

Project assets are kept for 20 days after the last render job for that project, so you can queue new renders without uploading again. Render job files and outputs are kept for 10 days. After that, everything is deleted automatically.

Yes. Every upload and download travels over SFTP (SSH), encrypted with AES-128/256-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305 or AES-CTR. Files are deleted automatically - render job files and outputs after 10 days, project assets 20 days after your last job - and we'll sign your NDA before your first job on an unreleased project.

RenderSonic is built around standard 3D app integrations. If you need full control over installed software or a non-standard pipeline, Dedicated Cloud Servers give you complete admin access instead.