Architectural rendering services, priced
$300–$3,000 per image, three to fourteen business days, and only three of the ten studios below publish a price. The rate cards, the studios, and the option that costs nothing to try first.
3 renders a day. No brief, no wait.
Architectural rendering cost
Three of the ten studios on this page publish a starting price. The other seven quote per project. Here are the three, exactly as they state them: ArchiCGI, RealSpace 3D and Rapid Renders. Last updated: September 10, 2026.
| Studio | Published starting price | Turnaround | Revisions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchiCGI | Interiors from $300 / view · residential exteriors from $600 · commercial from $900 | 3 business days for a still | Included in the standard price |
| RealSpace 3D | $399 / image presentation tier · $799 / image marketing tier | 3–6 days house and interior · 4–8 days exterior | Not published |
| Rapid Renders | Interiors from $350 · exteriors from $300 · product from $99 | 24–48 hours for a simple still · about a week for one image | Up to 5 free on the quoted estimate |
| Render a House | Free for 3 renders a day · Pro $39/mo for 240 credits | Seconds | One credit per attempt |
Two of those studios also publish cost guides describing the market rather than their own rates. Those are the numbers to budget against, and they are the source of the $300–$3,000 figure at the top of this page. Where a guide does not cover a deliverable, the cell says so.
| Deliverable | RealSpace 3D cost guide | Rapid Renders cost guide |
|---|---|---|
| Any still image, all types | $300–$3,000 | $350–$2,500 for 80% of studios |
| House or residential exterior | $399–$1,500 | $500–$1,000 |
| Commercial exterior | $800–$2,500 | $1,000–$10,000 for large commercial |
| Interior | $600–$1,500 | $500–$1,000 |
| Aerial or context view | $1,000–$3,000 | Not published |
| Walkthrough animation | $4,000–$12,000 per finished minute | $50–$200 per second |
| 360° virtual tour | Not published | $700–$2,500 |
| Professional time, hourly | Not published | $100–$250 |
Rush work sits outside both tables. RealSpace 3D’s guide puts a 48-hour turnaround at a 25–50% premium; Rapid Renders puts anything under five business days at 30–50%.
Line drawing of a house, the kind of input a studio models fromDrag to compare
Architectural rendering companies
Ten studios, each checked against its own website in September 2026. They are not ranked — they do different jobs, and the useful question is which one matches your deliverable. Where a studio publishes no price, this page says so rather than guessing one. Looking for somebody local instead? 3D rendering studios in Madrid applies the same address check to one city.
London · New York · Auckland
Verified on its contact page
Sydney · Melbourne · New York · London · Dubai
Verified on its what-we-do page
London
Verified on its studio page
San Francisco, trading as Archivizer LLC
Verified on its homepage FAQ
Vancouver, Canada
Verified on its pricing guide
Torrance, California · Colombo, Sri Lanka
Verified on its published rate card
Fremont, California · Brazil
Verified on its homepage
South Florida, United States
Verified on its homepage
Budapest, Hungary
Verified on its homepage
Porto, Portugal
Verified on its homepage
What moves the number
Five things, and only one of them is the picture. Complexity and level of detail decide artist hours — RealSpace 3D puts the same exterior at anywhere between 8 and 80 hours of work. The number of views matters less than you would think, because views two through five reuse the model. Deadline is priced separately. What you hand over changes the modelling time. And then there is where the studio sits.
Rapid Renders publishes that last one as a table, which almost nobody does:
| Where the studio is | Published per-image band |
|---|---|
| United States and Canada | $600–$2,500 |
| United Kingdom and Western Europe | $500–$2,000 |
| Middle East (UAE) | $700–$3,000 |
| Eastern Europe | $300–$1,200 |
| Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Philippines) | $200–$800 |
Bands as published by Rapid Renders, which discloses the arbitrage directly: it registers in California, produces in Colombo, and states that this puts its rates at roughly half those of a comparable London or New York studio. Render a House has no such table because the price does not move with geography: the same browser, the same credits, from anywhere.
What you send
A brief that is settled before modelling starts is the cheapest thing you can give a studio. Rapid Renders puts two or three days of preparation against 15–25 hours of revision labour. Most of that preparation is deciding what the image should be — which is the step Render a House is built for.
Choosing a studio
Render a House
These are not competing answers to one question. A studio sells the image that must be right; Render a House sells the fifty images before it. Side by side, at published prices:
| a rendering studio | Render a House | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per image | $300–$3,000 published; three studios start at $300–$399. | Free at 3 renders a day; Pro is $39/mo for 240 credits. |
| Time to first image | 3 business days at the fastest published; 5–14 typical. | Seconds, from an exported view and a written description. |
| Changing your mind | 1–2 rounds included, then $100–$400 per round. | One credit per attempt; refine a region without re-rendering the image. |
| What you send | A brief: drawings or model, views, materials, deadline. | A GLB, OBJ or PNG export from the model you already have. |
| What it is for | Marketing, sales and planning images that must be right. | Options, moods and material direction, early — before the brief exists. |
What you get
3D integration
Where your CAD software exports a mesh, upload it and set the camera in the browser, then render from that view.
Rendering
Photorealism in seconds rather than a queued calculation you leave running over lunch.
Video
A camera move across the same project, generated from a finished still. Nothing to animate.
Design
Try materials, light and surroundings until the version you want exists, without touching the source model.
Refinement
Fix one part of a render — a facade panel, a tree, a sky — without starting the image again.
Precision
Your geometry is respected: the walls, openings, heights and proportions you drew in your CAD software stay where you put them.
Collaborative
Share a link and take comments on the image itself, so feedback lands on the render rather than in an email thread.
Mobile and web
Runs in the browser, on the machine you have open, including a laptop that would struggle with a local render engine.
4K
Delivery resolution, ready to print or put on a board without a separate upscaling step.
Half of what firms send to rendering studios is not the final image. It is the four options nobody has chosen between yet, the material study, the massing view for Thursday’s meeting. Paying $300–$3,000 and waiting a week for those is the expensive part of this whole page. Render a House takes an export from the model you already have — GLB, OBJ, or a PNG of the view — and returns a photorealistic image in seconds, in a browser, with no render engine and no graphics card. Then hire a studio for the image that has to be perfect.
Try it out, go Pro when it starts paying for itself.
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Most popular
Pro
For professionals and small teams
$26/mo
$312/yr
4 months free
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Studio
For studios and bigger teams
$66/mo
$792/yr
4 months free
What credits buy you
Pro 240 credits | Studio 1000 credits | |
|---|---|---|
| Render Pro 2 credits each | 120 | 500 |
| Render Standard 1 credit each | 240 | 1000 |
| Render Standard 2K 1.5 credits each | 160 | 666 |
| Render Pro 4K 4 credits each | 60 | 250 |
| Render Standard 4K 2 credits each | 120 | 500 |
| Video 0.8 credits/sec | 300s | 1250s |
Three studios publish their own starting prices: ArchiCGI from $300 per interior view and $600 for a residential exterior, RealSpace 3D at $399 an image for presentation work and $799 for marketing work, and Rapid Renders from $350 for interiors and $300 for exteriors. Both RealSpace 3D and Rapid Renders also publish market guides, and those put a typical still image between $300 and $3,000.
ArchiCGI publishes three business days for a still render. RealSpace 3D publishes 3–6 days for a house or interior and 4–8 days for an exterior. Rapid Renders publishes 24–48 hours for a simple still and about a week for a single finished image. Rush work is quoted at a premium — RealSpace 3D's guide states 25–50% for a 48-hour turnaround, Rapid Renders 30–50% for under five business days.
It varies enough that it belongs in the contract. ArchiCGI states revisions are included in its standard three-day delivery; Rapid Renders quotes up to five free revisions on its estimator and charges 15% for extended revisions; Rendergram includes three rounds on preview images. RealSpace 3D's cost guide puts an additional round at $100–$400 across the market.
Location and level of detail. Rapid Renders publishes per-image bands by region: $600–$2,500 in the US and Canada, $500–$2,000 in the UK and Western Europe, $300–$1,200 in Eastern Europe and $200–$800 in Asia. RealSpace 3D notes the same exterior can take 8 or 80 hours of artist time depending on what was agreed.
A model or drawing set, the views you want, material and finish references, and the deadline. CAD, BIM, SketchUp files, PDFs of plans and elevations, or dimensioned sketches all work — Rapid Renders states it will build the model from 2D drawings or photos alone. Settling the brief before modelling starts is what keeps revision rounds off the invoice.
Mostly not. Of the ten studios listed here, three publish a starting figure and seven quote per project. That is not evasion so much as a real variable: the same brief can be a day of work or two weeks, depending on the detail agreed, so studios price after seeing the drawings.
Not for everything. A studio is still the right call for a verified planning view, a specified camera, or a hero image that has to match the built result. AI rendering replaces the early half of the job — options, moods, material direction and internal reviews — where a $1,000 image and a week of waiting buy very little.
Architectural rendering is 3D rendering applied to buildings and interiors, which adds requirements general 3D work does not carry: real site context, correct daylight, materials a contractor could specify, and a planning or marketing use the image has to survive. A studio that renders products well does not necessarily render buildings well.
Render the drawing you already have, pick the option that works, then send that to a studio. The brief writes itself.
