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Architectural rendering companies in Mexico City

• Render México

  Insurgentes Norte 1501, Col. Tepeyac Insurgentes, 07020 CDMX

  The long-standing one. States more than fifteen years turning projects into photorealistic images, from an office on Insurgentes Norte in the Tepeyac Insurgentes colonia. Sells stills, interactive renders, architectural animation, 360° panoramas and VR walkthroughs, and also runs courses. The portfolio reaches beyond housing into brand and retail work — KidZania and Liverpool appear — which is unusual for a Mexican archviz studio. Site in Spanish and English. No published pricing.

  Verified on its contact page

• Legacy State

  Ciudad Universitaria 286, Jardines del Pedregal, 01900 CDMX

  A despacho in Jardines del Pedregal that publishes what almost nobody in this city does: a starting price. Renders start at $999 MXN for a schematic level of detail and rise with square metres, level of realism and staging; delivery is quoted at three to five business days minimum, with review meetings inside that window. States over five years of render work across hotels, houses, retail units, shopping centres and housing developments, in 3ds Max, V-Ray, Corona, Chaos Vantage and Lumion. Delivers digitally and on a USB stick.

  Verified on its render-precio page

• Digitarq

  Dr. Roberto Gayol 1255, Col. del Valle Sur, 03100 CDMX

  The technical generalist, run by Silverio Alejandro Álvarez González from Col. del Valle Sur, with the address in its aviso de privacidad rather than only its footer. Architectural rendering and virtual tours sit alongside point-cloud modelling and, on the same site, soil mechanics studies — this is an engineering services shop that renders, not an image studio. Quotes over WhatsApp. No published pricing.

  Verified on its aviso de privacidad

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What is published

Studio ATF’s US-dollar equivalent is its own conversion. Grupo Qvick is an architecture and engineering firm whose blog carries the rate card; it publishes phone numbers with Mexico City and Oaxaca prefixes and no address.

Reading the search results

In Mexico City, but without a published street address

• Studio ATF

  “Ciudad de México” — city only · from $2,800 MXN

  Ricardo Ayala Vázquez’s studio, and the most useful price on this page: a residential render “from $2,800 pesos mexicanos (160 usd)”, delivered in three to ten business days, quoted from architectural plans. Works for developers and investment firms — Be Grand, Cimbra Capital, OBR Group appear on its site — and states BIM integration at LOD 300–400 with Unreal Engine 5 and Corona. Publishes only “CDMX, México” as a location, so it is not counted.

• DS 3DStudio

  “CDMX, México” — city only

  Daniel Samayoa’s Unreal Engine studio: real-time walkthroughs and cinematic renders, with brand clients — Google, Aeroméxico, Home Depot — next to developers in Tulum and Uruguay. Publishes a mobile number and a city, no street.

Ranking for CDMX, based elsewhere

Choosing one

• A colonia and a street, or an aviso de privacidad

  The privacy notice required by Mexican law usually names the responsable and a domicile. If neither the footer nor the aviso gives one, ask; a real studio will answer in a minute.

• What level of detail the price buys

  Legacy State prices by level — schematic, conceptual, photorealistic — and so does Grupo Qvick. A $999 render and a $2,800 render are different products, not different margins.

• Corrections in writing

  Grupo Qvick allows two per image. Nobody else publishes a number. Get it in the cotización, and settle the camera on a free Render a House pass so the first round is the last.

• Plans first, model if you have one

  Every studio here asks for architectural plans to quote. A SketchUp or Revit model shortens the schedule and the invoice; the same export renders directly in Render a House.

A studio is the right answer for the image that has to be perfect — the preventa hero, the sales-room walkthrough, the photomontage for the alcaldía. It is an expensive answer for the four options nobody has chosen between yet. Side by side:

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.

Render a House takes an export from the model you already have and returns a photorealistic image in seconds, in a browser, with no render engine and no graphics card. Use it to decide what the image should be, then commission the one that matters from one of the studios above. What rendering services cost covers the wider market, and the Monterrey list applies the same check to the north.

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• A sales-room walkthrough in Unreal Engine. That is what DS 3DStudio and Studio ATF build; Render a House makes stills and short camera moves from them.
• A launch hero a buyer will hold against the finished departamento. Buy that render.
• A photomontage for a manifestación de construcción. That needs a surveyed camera and a signature.
• Any measured drawing. Render a House output is a concept image, never a plano.

How much does a 3D render cost in Mexico City?

More is published here than in most cities. Legacy State starts at $999 MXN for a schematic-level render and Studio ATF at $2,800 MXN — about US$160 — for a residential one, both rising with size and realism. Grupo Qvick, which publishes no address, lists $1,800 MXN for an exterior, $1,600 for an interior and $600 for a conceptual view. Render México and Digitarq quote per project.

How long does a render take in CDMX?

Legacy State quotes three to five business days as a minimum and Studio ATF three to ten depending on complexity. Carnet 3D, a retail-focused studio that publishes no address, states a five-day standard from receipt of plans. Everyone asks for architectural plans first; a model shortens the schedule.

Why do so few Mexico City studios publish a street address?

Mexico has no equivalent of Spain’s aviso legal rule. The aviso de privacidad required under the LFPDPPP usually names the responsible party and a domicile — Digitarq’s does — but many studios publish only a WhatsApp number and “CDMX”. Studio ATF and DS 3DStudio are both real and both in the city; they are listed separately because this page counts addresses, not claims.

Which CDMX studio should a developer call for a preventa?

Studio ATF is built for it — its whole site is framed around preventa and sales-stage imagery, and it names developers and investment firms as clients — but it publishes no address. Among the counted three, Render México has the longest track record and the broadest deliverable list, and Legacy State the clearest price. Use a free Render a House pass to settle the views before you brief any of them.

Other cities

• Monterrey

  Two studios with an address, and a San Pedro studio that publishes a US-dollar package price.

• Bogotá

  Four studios with a verified address, one with a rate card — and two more rate cards from studios that publish no street.

• Santiago

  Three studios in Las Condes, Providencia and Santiago Centro.

• Madrid

  Five studios with a verified address, and the one Spanish studio that publishes a per-image price.

• Barcelona

  Four studios, from a one-person practice in Gràcia to a 55,000-image volume operation.

• Valencia

  Three studios, including the one Spanish name that works for Nieto Sobejano and Fran Silvestre.

• Lima

  Two studios with a verified Lima street address, neither with a published price, plus six uncounted local candidates.