Very fast. Octane is a GPU renderer, and our farm is built specifically for that. We run our own dedicated datacenter with the latest GPU hardware, and on average your job will have 100 to 200 GPUs working on it simultaneously.

Because all your frames are distributed across multiple machines at once, a 200-frame animation renders in roughly the same time as a single frame would take on our hardware. What takes overnight on your workstation can often be done in under an hour on the farm.

You can use the pricing calculator at https://dropandrender.com/pricing to get an upfront time and cost estimate based on your OctaneBench score and project settings. Or simply submit a test frame with your free credits and use that as your baseline.

We support Octane across all three of our main applications: Cinema 4D, Blender, and Houdini. Each has its own dedicated plugin that handles submission directly from within the app, with no need to change how you work.

Cinema 4D users submit via our Cinema 4D plugin. Blender users submit via our Blender add-on. Houdini users submit via our HDA, which connects directly to your Octane render nodes inside the graph. In all three cases the process is the same: check your scene, submit, and your completed frames download directly to your workstation.

No. All Octane licensing on the farm is covered by Drop & Render. You do not need to purchase additional render node licenses or worry about license counts when scaling across dozens or hundreds of machines.

You only need your own local Octane license for working in your 3D application, which you already have. Everything on the farm side is handled by us.