RenderDay vs BlenderGrid
Both farms render a free sample of your scene and quote an exact price before you pay. What separates them is the hardware, the render engines, and how far back the Blender support reaches.
RenderDay
A Blender cloud render service with one fixed price, quoted before payment, after a free test render of your own scene. No subscription, no credits, no minimum spend.
- One fixed price, quoted before payment, after a free test render of your own scene
- Frames render in parallel across demand-provisioned NVIDIA RTX 5090 and L40S GPUs, up to 48 GB VRAM per worker
- No subscription, no credits, no minimum spend; jobs start at €2.01
BlenderGrid
A Blender-specialist render farm founded in 2013. You pay per render, or prepay for render credit, and every project starts with a free sample render before you pay.
- Free sample render before you pay
- Cycles only, rendered on CPU; no EEVEE and no GPU rendering
- Blender support from version 2.77 onward
How the two work
RenderDay renders on demand-provisioned NVIDIA RTX 5090 and L40S GPUs, with up to 48 GB VRAM per worker, and frames render in parallel across workers rather than one after another on a single machine. BlenderGrid renders on CPU only; by its own published comparison of render farms, it currently offers no GPU rendering and no EEVEE support.
Both services accept .blend files and ZIP archives. RenderDay supports Cycles and EEVEE across Blender 4.3 through 5.2. BlenderGrid supports Cycles only, with Blender support reaching back to version 2.77 and new Blender releases typically supported within about 24 hours.
Feature by feature
Pricing structure
RenderDayPay-as-you-go. No subscription, no credits, no minimum spend. Jobs start at €2.01.
BlenderGridPay per render, or prepay for render credit. No maintained public price list.
Price quote method
RenderDayFree test render of your own scene, then one exact price quoted before you pay.
BlenderGridRuns benchmark frames at lower settings (5-15 minutes), then calculates a price from the benchmark result.
Hardware
RenderDayNVIDIA RTX 5090 and L40S GPUs, up to 48 GB VRAM per worker. Frames render in parallel across demand-provisioned workers.
BlenderGridCPU rendering only; by BlenderGrid’s own comparison article, no GPU rendering is currently offered.
Render engines
RenderDayCycles and EEVEE.
BlenderGridCycles only. BlenderGrid’s FAQ states EEVEE support is not currently offered.
Blender version support
RenderDayBlender 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2.
BlenderGridEvery version from 2.77 onward; new releases typically supported within about 24 hours.
Upload size limit
RenderDayUp to 5 GB per file.
BlenderGridBlenderGrid’s own pages disagree with each other: the upload widget says up to 100 GB, its FAQ says 5 TB. Neither page reconciles the difference.
Results availability
RenderDayResults available to download for 30 days.
BlenderGridUploaded source files retained 30 days (60-day backup); completed renders available for download 14 days (60-day backup).
Refunds and discounts
RenderDayFree re-render or full refund for RenderDay-caused failures, with a 7-day window to report.
BlenderGridFull refund if the failure or missed deadline is BlenderGrid’s fault, per its own refund policy. Support is via email and Discord, limited to EU business hours.
Competitor details from BlenderGrid’s own pricing and FAQ pages, retrieved 2026-07-31. Tell us if something has changed and we will correct it.
How a job runs
RenderDay
- 01Upload .blend or .zip file
- 02Preprocessing analyses your file in 1-2 minutes: extracts render settings, detects cameras, and evaluates complexity
- 03Select render settings (Blender version, engine, resolution, samples, and so on)
- 04Free test render of your own scene; receive one exact price
- 05Pay the quoted price
- 06Frames render in parallel across GPU workers
- 07Monitor progress with real-time preview frames
- 08Download your results (available for 30 days)
BlenderGrid
- 01Sign up for a free account
- 02Upload .blend file or project folder
- 03BlenderGrid runs benchmark frames at lower settings (5-15 minutes)
- 04Receive a price quote based on the benchmark
- 05Pay per render, or use prepaid render credit
- 06Rendering runs on a best-effort basis; BlenderGrid states no service-level agreement or guaranteed completion time
Which one fits your job
Both cases, on one screen. If the answer is the other one, that is a better outcome than a refund.
Pick BlenderGrid if
BlenderGrid is the better pick for very old Blender files (claimed support back to version 2.77, against RenderDay’s 4.3 floor) and for exceptionally large uploads, though its own pages disagree on the exact limit (100 GB on the upload widget, 5 TB on the FAQ, against RenderDay’s 5 GB per file). It also has a longer public track record, founded in 2013, and publishes a specific list of pre-installed add-ons (True Terrain, Toonkit, Animation Nodes) you can check against your own scene.
Pick RenderDay if
For a job that needs GPU rendering or EEVEE, RenderDay’s difference is the render itself: GPU rendering (RTX 5090, L40S) for both Cycles and EEVEE, with one fixed price quoted before you pay. By BlenderGrid’s own comparison article, it is CPU-only, with no GPU rendering and no EEVEE support.
Settle it with your own scene
Upload the file and we will render real test frames of it, then send one exact fixed price. If the number does not work, you have paid nothing.
Median wait for a price is 6 minutes, and nine jobs in ten are priced within 16.