Low cost render farm for CINEMA 4D OCTANE ?
Typical cloud render farm prices and how they compare to RNDR
I found it interesting what OTOY_Inc said in another thread about the true value of RNDR:
"...Today, the available GPUs on the public cloud give us ~ 1k OB/minute for a token, and that costs .25 c. But if you wanted more render power than the public cloud offers? By 100x? By EOD? That is where things get interesting - because no USD amount can directly buy you that amount of compute on the public cloud. So what then is the RNDR someone spends to unlock that scarcity of compute power (above the rate of more commoditized RNDR power for more average, higher latency workloads)?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/RenderToken/comments/7qj15j/1_rndr_token_would_be_worth_us_116_as_of_now/dsqz6jx/
What is a fair valuation for such a scarce resource as 100x public cloud capacity in one day? How much would people be willing to pay for it?
More on reddit.comrender farm
Drop & Render is a pretty great one and prices are low!
If you’re a bit more tech savvy, check out the RNDR network created by Otoy. It’ll be even cheaper. More info here: rendertoken
More on reddit.comCheap render farm?
Check out those french guys: http://www.ranchcomputing.com/en/
They offer each new client 50€, afaik you don't even have to give your credit card info.
A friend of mine used this to render a project for school a few months back and had a little privacy issue with them: be aware they will open your files manually and may take a closer look at them to check if you aren't abusing the offer by registering multiple accounts for the same project, even if they state on their website they don't / can't
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More on reddit.comHow fast will my Octane project render on the farm?
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.
Which 3D applications can I use with Octane on your render farm?
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.
Do I need my own Octane license to render on the farm?
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.
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Hi everyone !
I have a 700 frames project for my portfolio that has lots of details, I need a 2048 samples picture at list. It takes my gpu 17minutes for each (198 hour...). I have a rtx 3070. The problem is I don't have a lot of money to spend for render farms. Do you know any "cheap" render farm for octane ?
Thank you !