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Access now requires a licence: quoted from the artist guide, 'To get started on the Creator portal, you must have an active OctaneRender License or Subscription'.","unit":"seconds","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"three tiers priced per 400 OctaneBench-hours: EUR 0.60 economy, EUR 1.20, EUR 2.40; bandwidth 0.09 credits per GB of scene assets","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://rendernetwork.com/pricing"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"Only useful for rendering, and only through a 3D content pipeline. A free Prime licence plus a Blender scene is a chain that costs nothing, but Prime explicitly disables network rendering and caps at 1 GPU, so the free licence does not by itself unlock the network.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"The free credits are gone and the remaining free path needs a free Octane Prime licence plus a Blender or Octane workflow, so the binding constraint is the software gate rather than a quota.","source":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted"}],"limits_note":"The free credits are gone and the remaining free path needs a free Octane Prime licence plus a Blender or Octane workflow, so the binding constraint is the software gate rather than a quota.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The free credits are gone and the remaining free path needs a free Octane Prime licence plus a Blender or Octane workflow, so the binding constraint is the software gate rather than a quota.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the page offers EUR 50 in free credits and states in the same block 'The offer has concluded, please stay updated at rendernetwork.com'; a raw fetch confirms both strings"},{"url":"https://try.rendernetwork.com/basel","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the same page template offers EUR 250 in free credits, also closed, so per-campaign amounts varied between EUR 50 and EUR 250"},{"url":"https://know.rendernetwork.com/getting-started/how-to-get-started","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'you must have an active OctaneRender License or Subscription', with a free Octane Prime licence named as the no-cost route"},{"url":"https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/demo/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Octane Prime free tier is real but limited: quoted 'A maximum of 1 GPU is available for rendering' and 'Network rendering is not available'"},{"url":"https://rendernetwork.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"three tiers priced per 400 OctaneBench-hours: EUR 0.60 economy, EUR 1.20, EUR 2.40; bandwidth 0.09 credits per GB of scene assets"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Two things are true and easy to confuse. The EUR 50 and EUR 250 credits are closed. The 'free access for all Blender users' claim traces to RNP-014, a 2024 governance proposal, whose own announcement says free access 'would be added to the Render Foundation roadmap if approved'. The network now requires an active Octane licence. The Prime free tier does not include network rendering, so it does not hand over the network. Also note: render.com is a different company (a PaaS) and its 750 free instance-hours belong to another topic, not to this one.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"decentralized-render-marketplace","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"OctaneBench tiers from EUR 0.60 to EUR 2.40 per 400 OBh","gpu_count":1}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}