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 Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

LuxRender

LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.

Free Open Source Mac OS X 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 OS X Windows Linux

YafaRay

YafaRay is an open source raytracing render engine. As an open source project, users and developers have free access to the source code and it is free, as in free speech.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Blender

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 OS X Windows Linux Blender Sketchup

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 images from 3D models.

Commercial

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.

Freemium Web

Lumion

Lumion is a real-time 3D visualization tool for making movies and still shots of architecture, planning and design. It is also possible to give live demonstrations. The...

Commercial Windows

appleseed

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X 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 OS X Windows Linux

Visual Designer 3D

Visual Designer is an advanced GPU & CPU photorealistic renderer with a unique set of features to handle all the aspects of your creation. It will save a significant...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

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

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...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Arion

Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl.

Commercial Windows

Adobe Dimension CC

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

Commercial

Enscape3D

Walk through your architectural projects in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift. Download the Enscape Revit plugin and Revit sample projects for free. Enscape is a...

Freemium Windows

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 OS X Windows Linux

Pixie Renderer

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

NOX Renderer

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. ...

Free Open Source Windows