Free Keyshot Alternatives

The best free alternative to Keyshot is LuxCoreRender, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Keyshot and 17 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Keyshot are appleseed, MoonRay, Sunflow Rendering System and YafaRay.

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KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks...

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LuxCoreRender
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Free • Open Source
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49 LuxCoreRender alternatives
LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.
- - LuxCoreRender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Keyshot.
- - LuxCoreRender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Keyshot.
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appleseed
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Free • Open Source
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52 appleseed alternatives
appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. It provides individuals and small studios with an efficient, reliable suite of tools built on robust foundations and open technologies.
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1. Portableappleseed can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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MoonRay
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Free • Open Source
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46 MoonRay alternatives
MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, the upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, as well as future...
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Sunflow Rendering System
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Free • Open Source
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50 Sunflow Rendering System alternatives
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 object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and...
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YafaRay
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Blender
53 YafaRay alternatives
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.
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Malt
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Free • Open Source
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46 Malt alternatives
Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration. Designed as a community effort to expand the possibility space of 3d rendering, it provides graphics programmers and technical artist an enjoyable “shadertoy-like” workflow inside Blender...
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Pixie Renderer
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49 Pixie Renderer alternatives
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).
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Mitsuba
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52 Mitsuba alternatives
Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation. It consists of a core library and a set of plugins that implement functionality ranging from materials and light sources to complete rendering algorithms.
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NOX Renderer
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Free • Open Source
Windows
51 NOX Renderer alternatives
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.
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MiniLight
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Free • Open Source
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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 development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines).
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RenderMan
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Free Personal • Proprietary
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50 RenderMan alternatives
PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.
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OctaneBench®
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Free • Proprietary
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51 OctaneBench® alternatives
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.
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1. Import CSV DataOctaneBench® can import data from a CSV (Comma seperated values) file.
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