LuxRender

LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

POV-Ray

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

RenderMan

PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer. It primarily uses the REYES algorithm but is also fully...

Free Personal $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

Mitsuba

Physically based renderer. Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains...

Free Mac Windows Linux

appleseed

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Clara.io

Clara.io is a full-featured cloud-based 3D modeling, animation and rendering software tool that runs in your web browser. With Clara.io you can make complex 3D...

Freemium Web

Kerkythea

Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer. Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and...

Free Mac Windows Linux Sketchup Blender

Keyshot

KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

Adobe Dimension CC

Create high-quality, photorealistic images with the 3D tool made for graphic designers.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Adobe Creative Cloud

Sunflow Rendering System

Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Picogen

A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic...

• Discontinued No recent releases since 2010. See https://code.google.com/archive/p/picogen/downloads

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Indigo Renderer

Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Octane Render

Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

V-Ray

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the well-known V-Ray award-winning production rendering engine with the flexibility...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Autodesk 3ds Max

Pixie Renderer

Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux