19 Like LuxRender Good alternative? YES NO 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 Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
28 Like POV-Ray Good alternative? YES NO 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 Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
6 Like Clara.io Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
10 Like Mitsuba Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
4 Like RenderMan Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
9 Like Keyshot Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
10 Like Kerkythea Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
3 Like Picogen Good alternative? YES NO A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued No recent releases since 2010. See https://code.google.com/archive/p/picogen/downloads
4 Like appleseed Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
2 Like Freestyle Good alternative? YES NO Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like Sunflow Rendering System Alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
5 Like Visual Designer 3D Good alternative? YES NO Visual Designer is an advanced GPU & CPU photorealistic renderer with a unique set of features to handle all the aspects of your creation. It will save a significant... Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
1 Like MiniLight Good alternative? YES NO MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like NOX Renderer Good alternative? YES NO NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods. The renderer is available as a standalone Windows executable with a plug-in to link it to 3ds Max. ... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
4 Like Arion Good alternative? YES NO Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our expertise in light simulation and makes it run on... Commercial Windows Real time rendering Add a feature
