What rendering services cost in 2026

3D rendering cost

Starting prices as published by ArchiCGI, Rapid Renders, Maverick Frame Studio and the providers named in each row; every one is quoted with its source on the linked page. Market bands describe what the guides say the market charges, not what their authors charge.

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Renderer prices from this site’s own pricing articles on D5 Render, V-Ray, Enscape and Lumion. Freelancer bands from Transparent House’s and Rapid Renders’ cost guides.

3D rendering companies

• ArchiCGI

  Volume studio · San Francisco, trading as Archivizer LLC

  The one provider that spans the whole table: interiors from $300, residential exteriors from $600, commercial from $900, 3D floor plans from $99, with three business days for a still and revisions in the price. States 600+ artists and 144 in-house modellers. Built for fifty views by Friday.

  Verified on its homepage FAQ

• Rapid Renders

  Volume studio · California, production in Colombo

  Publishes everything and says why. Exteriors from $300, interiors from $350, product packshots $99–$199, lifestyle scenes $200–$600, plus a cost guide with per-region bands that discloses its own arbitrage: US-registered, Sri Lankan production, roughly half a London or New York rate.

  Verified on its published rate card

• RealSpace 3D

  Fixed-tier studio · Vancouver

  Two prices and nothing else: $399 an image for presentation work, $799 for marketing renders, 3–8 days depending on the deliverable. Its cost guide is the most-cited market map in the category and the source of most of the bands on this page.

  Verified on its pricing guide

• BoxBrownie

  Real-estate photo editor · BoxBrownie.com Pty Ltd

  Renders as one line on a listing-services rate card: exteriors and interiors from US$350, 360° renders from US$500, 3D floor plans at US$40 per floor. About two weeks on a render, 24–48 hours on a plan. Prices shown vary with the country you browse from.

  Verified on its renders page

• The 2D3D Floor Plan Company

  Fixed-price shop · India, trading as P&K Group

  The floor of almost every column: 2D plans from $49, 3D plans from $59, site plans from $79, interiors from $99, exteriors from $149, 3–5 business days. The right call for a listing or a small development; not for a competition board.

  Verified on its pricing page

• Modelry

  Platform · CGTrader's production arm

  Product rendering priced per model rather than per image: virtual photography from $42 per model, lifestyle scenes from $250, with CGTrader's quality assurance behind it and a free 3D and AR hosting tier. The cheapest published product render on this site.

  Verified on its pricing page

• Rendify

  Subscription studio · Quebec City, founded 2020

  The alternative to per-image pricing: one plan from about $2,000 a month covering exteriors, interiors, product and furniture rendering, with unlimited requests and revisions and turnaround from 12 hours. Only cheaper than the studios above past ten to twenty images a month.

  Verified on its pricing page

• The Boundary

  Boutique · London, New York, Auckland

  The top of the market, and the reminder that a rate card is not the whole story: 100+ in-house artists, Television Centre and Mercedes-Benz Places in the portfolio, an interactive sales platform of its own. No published pricing, and the deliverable is not the one a $297 render competes with.

  Verified on its contact page

By deliverable

• Architectural rendering services

  Ten studios, three published rate cards, $300–$3,000 per image, three to fourteen business days, and why seven of ten quote per project.

• 3D exterior rendering services

  Seven published starting prices from $149 to $900, the six things that move an exterior quote, and why an aerial costs three times an eye-level view.

• 3D product rendering services

  $42–$230 per model on white, $200–$600 for a lifestyle scene, the per-SKU maths, and an honest note on why an architecture renderer is not the tool for a chair.

• 3D floor plan rendering services

  $19–$99 per floor at seven of the eight providers checked, 24 to 72 hours standard, and the software that lets you draw it yourself.

By city

• Madrid

  Five studios with a verified Madrid address; one publishes a price, 280–330 € per image.

• Barcelona

  Four studios with a Barcelona-province aviso legal; none publishes a price.

• Valencia

  Three studios, including the one Spanish name that competes with Madrid's best on competition imagery.

• Mexico City

  Three studios with a published street and colonia; one of them publishes a price, and two more studios publish prices without an address.

• Bogotá

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

• Santiago

  Three studios with a Santiago address, none with a price; the one published rate belongs to a studio with no street.

• Monterrey

  Two studios that survive a first-party address check, and why the list is short.

• Lima

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

• Elsewhere

  Remote archviz works fine, and most of the providers on this page work internationally. The city lists are for when a site visit, a local planning process or a same-timezone revision round is the point.

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These are not competing answers to one question. A rendering service sells the deliverable — the plan, the packshot, the hero, the animation. Render a House sells the images before it: the options nobody has chosen between yet, for buildings and interiors only. Side by side, at published prices:

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, a floor plan, or a line drawing, 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 a provider above — with a brief that will not need a second round.

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• A measured floor plan, a catalogue-exact product packshot, an animation or a 360° tour. Those are four different trades, all priced above, and Render a House sells none of them.
• A verified view for a planning submission. That needs a surveyed camera and a documented method, and a studio signs its name to it.
• A hero image that has to match the built result closely enough to sell from. If a buyer will hold the render against the finished room, buy the render.
• Anything with a contractual dimension. Render a House output is a concept image; it is not a measured drawing and should never be read as one.

How much do 3D rendering services cost?

It depends on the deliverable more than the studio. At published rates: $19–$99 per floor for a 3D floor plan, $42–$230 per model for a product packshot, from $99–$350 for an interior, from $149–$900 for an exterior, from $936 for an aerial, and from $1,800 for an animation. The market guides published by RealSpace 3D and Rapid Renders put a finished house exterior at $399–$1,500, a commercial exterior at $800–$2,500, an aerial at $1,000–$3,000 and a walkthrough at $4,000–$12,000 per finished minute.

How long does 3D rendering take?

Twenty-four to seventy-two hours for a floor plan, one to five days for a product render, three business days for a still at ArchiCGI, 3–8 days at RealSpace 3D depending on the deliverable, about two weeks at BoxBrownie, and weeks for an animation. Rush work is priced on top — 25–50% for 48 hours in RealSpace 3D's guide, 30–50% under five business days at Rapid Renders.

Why do 3D rendering prices vary so much?

Five things. The deliverable — a floor plan and an aerial are different jobs. Complexity and level of detail, which set artist hours: RealSpace 3D puts the same exterior at 8 or 80 hours of work. Deadline, priced separately. What you hand over, which sets modelling time. And where the studio sits — Rapid Renders publishes per-image bands from $200–$800 in Asia to $700–$3,000 in the Gulf.

Do 3D rendering companies publish their prices?

Product and floor plan providers mostly do; architectural studios mostly do not. Of the ten studios on the architectural rendering page, three publish a price. Of the eight product rendering providers, six do. Of the eight floor plan services, seven do. The pages linked from this one list every published figure and say where one is missing.

What is the difference between 3D rendering and architectural rendering?

3D rendering is the general trade — any photorealistic image from a 3D model, including products, vehicles and packaging. Architectural rendering is the subset applied to buildings and interiors, with requirements the rest does not carry: site context, correct daylight, materials a contractor could specify, and a planning or marketing use the image has to survive. Most of the price difference on this page follows that line.

Is it cheaper to render in-house?

Past a certain volume. In-house means a salaried artist, a workstation and a renderer licence — D5 Pro is $360 a year, V-Ray Solo $540, Enscape Solo $574.80, Lumion Pro $1,149 — and a modelling workflow that already exists. Below a few images a week, a studio at $300–$900 an image or a subscription at $2,000 a month is cheaper than the salary. AI rendering is cheaper than either for the images that only need to be good enough to decide with.

How do I find a 3D rendering company near me?

Check the address, not the phone prefix. Most sites that rank for a city's rendering queries are headquartered elsewhere and run a landing page for the traffic. The city pages linked from this one — Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Mexico City, Bogotá, Santiago and Monterrey — list only studios whose own site publishes a street address in that city, and say how many candidates failed the check.

Can AI replace a 3D rendering service?

For the images that come before the brief, yes. Render a House takes an exported view, a plan or a drawing and returns a photorealistic building or interior in seconds, free for three renders a day — options, moods, materials, times of day. It does not replace a verified planning view, a catalogue-exact product packshot, an animation or a hero image with a specified camera. Those are what the providers on this page sell.