Octane Render Alternatives

Octane Render is described as '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. Thllows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Octane Render for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Autodesk 3ds Max and Sketchup apps. The best Octane Render alternative is LuxCoreRender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Octane Render are MoonRay, Adobe Dimension, POV-Ray and Cycles Renderer.

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  1. LuxCoreRender icon

    LuxCoreRender

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Almost everyone thinks LuxCoreRender is a great Octane Render alternative.

    • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Octane Render.

    • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Octane Render.

    • LuxCoreRender is Free and Open SourceOctane Render is Paid and Proprietary
  2. MoonRay icon

    MoonRay

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    MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Adobe Dimension icon

    Adobe Dimension

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    Versatile 3D design tool combining asset compositing and photorealistic rendering with real-time previews. Access Adobe Stock seamlessly and enhance with Photoshop for practical workflows.

    57 Adobe Dimension alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
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    • Adobe Dimension is the most popular commercial alternative to Octane Render.

    • Adobe Dimension is Paid and ProprietaryOctane Render is also Paid and Proprietary
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  6. POV-Ray icon

    POV-Ray

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    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 Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Cycles Renderer

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. V-Ray icon

    V-Ray

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    V-Ray 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 and exceptional speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT and the even more impressive new V-Ray RT...

    47 V-Ray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rhinoceros
    • Autodesk 3ds Max
    • Autodesk Revit
    • Sketchup
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  10. RenderMan icon

    RenderMan

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    PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Keyshot icon

    Keyshot

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    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 images from 3D models.

    50 Keyshot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Depth of Field
     
  12. Mitsuba icon

    Mitsuba

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. Malt icon

    Malt

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Sample files
     
  14. Indigo Renderer icon

    Indigo Renderer

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    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 physical camera model, a super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    appleseed

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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