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Render Network Compute

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try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted · GPU cloud · compute/render-network · JSON · compare

Free tier	The credit offer is withdrawn. Page quoted: 'Get EUR 50 in free credits, enough for 300 frames or 30 seconds of animation' and then 'The offer has concluded, please stay updated at rendernetwork.com'. 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; kind not stated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	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
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	try.rendernetwork.com/getstarted	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
2026-10-22	try.rendernetwork.com/basel	the same page template offers EUR 250 in free credits, also closed, so per-campaign amounts varied between EUR 50 and EUR 250
2026-10-22	know.rendernetwork.com/getting-started/how-to-get-started	quoted: 'you must have an active OctaneRender License or Subscription', with a free Octane Prime licence named as the no-cost route
2026-10-22	home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/demo/	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'
2026-10-22	rendernetwork.com/pricing	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

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (8)

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$.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