Cycles Renderer

Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011.

Free Open Source Mac 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tungsten Renderer

Tungsten is a physically based renderer I originally wrote in early 2014 for the Image Synthesis Rendering Competition at ETH, where it won 1st place with the image...

Free Open Source Mac 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...

• Indigo was Lux predecessor. When it went commercial Lux started to be developed around the same ideas, thus having similar workflow of materials and rendering algorithm while still being free. Guest • Jan 2018 Disagree   Agree

Commercial 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

Adobe Dimension CC

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Adobe Creative Cloud

Freestyle

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

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