Cycles Renderer Alternatives

Cycles Renderer is described as 'Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011. It was originally developed by Brecht van Lommel, and is maintained by an active team of developers today. Since its release as Apache 2' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cycles Renderer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Blender and Autodesk 3ds Max apps. The best Cycles Renderer alternative is LuxCoreRender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cycles Renderer are MoonRay, Adobe Dimension, V-Ray and RenderMan.

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  1. YafaRay icon
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    YafaRay is a free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blender
     
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    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 XCode or unix style configure script).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. NOX Renderer icon
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    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.

    A linking script is also available for Blender users.

    As with other similar applications, such as Maxwell Render a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    OctaneBench® allows you to benchmark your GPU using OctaneRender. This provides a level playing field by making sure that everybody uses the same version and the same scenes and settings. Without these constraints, benchmark results can vary a lot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Octane Render icon
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    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 photorealistic results fast...really fast. This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Thea Render icon
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    Thea Render is a state-of-the-art biased/unbiased renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one. Plugins are available for 3dsMax, Blender, Cinema4D, Rhino, SketchUp and SoftImage.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Autodesk 3ds Max
    • Sketchup
    • Autodesk Softimage
    • Blender
     
  7. Maxwell icon
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    Physically accurate 3D rendering engine using unbiased technology for photorealistic imagery, precise light simulation, global illumination, advanced material editing, animation support, plugin compatibility, and a simple setup for architecture, interior, and product design.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Indigo RT icon
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    Indigo RT is a new rendering solution which delivers unmatched value in the high end rendering market.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. rentaflop icon
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    Fast and affordable 3D rendering.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blender
     
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    OptiX provides a simple, recursive, and flexible pipeline for accelerating ray tracing algorithms. Bring the power of NVIDIA GPUs to your ray tracing applications with programmable intersection, ray generation, and shading.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • NVIDIA OptiX is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cycles Renderer.

    • NVIDIA OptiX is Free and ProprietaryCycles Renderer is Free and Open Source
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