The Best 9 Cycles Renderer Alternatives

  • 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

  • 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 OS X Windows Linux Autodesk 3ds Max

  • 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

  • Octane Render

    Octane Render is 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...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Thea Render

    Thea Render is a state-of-the-art biased/unbiased renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one....

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Sketchup Autodesk 3ds Max

  • Adobe Dimension CC

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

    Commercial

  • Maxwell

    3D rendering software for architects and designers. Maxwell is legendary for its quality and realism, and delivers great results via a simple set-up, which lets you...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux