# Which render farm is the best?

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298>\
**Category:** Animation and Rigging\
**Tags:** texturing\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298 "2022-09-30T04:58:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![anglestudio](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@anglestudio](https://blenderartists.org/u/anglestudio)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298/1 "2022-09-30T04:58:06Z")

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i have searched and make some googling ,  
(about render farm - for blender ),  
there is 3 popular choices ,  
but all are highly expensive .  
looking for cheap alternative for rendering exteriors may be 1000 frames

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/joseph/32/1433056_2.png) [@joseph](https://blenderartists.org/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298/2 "2022-09-30T22:42:00Z")

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I don’t know what your budget is, but this is the cheapest professional option:

> **[Barista - Home Cloud Rendering For Blender](https://blendermarket.com/products/barista)**
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> With Barista you become your own personal render farm for Blender, and render faster at a fraction of the cost of traditional rendering services.

Your best option is probably SheepIt, which is free. The caveat being that you must contribute your machine for rendering before you can use the render farm:

> **[SheepIt Render Farm](https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/home)**
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> SheepIt Render Farm

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**Author:** ![Elvinator](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/elvinator/32/486293_2.png) [@Elvinator](https://blenderartists.org/u/Elvinator)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298/3 "2022-10-01T06:01:36Z")

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You can go for a free render farm Sheepit but you gotta contribute your computer resources as well.

If that’s something you don’t want to do, go for a render farm service like GarageFarm where you get 33% discount on all Blender rendering and a nice starter credit. Here, I found it for you [https://garagefarm.net/blender-render-farm](https://garagefarm.net/blender-render-farm).

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**Author:** ![FrankFirsching](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/frankfirsching/32/941071_2.png) [@FrankFirsching](https://blenderartists.org/u/FrankFirsching)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298/4 "2022-10-01T07:23:32Z")

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I don’t have much experience with render farms, but beginning of the year I was using [Polargrid’s](https://polargrid.space/) free CPU rendering for an animation. I had some issues with their add-on and the transfer to the compute-center (sometimes it wouldn’t update a changed resource), but for free it was fine enough when using it on a hobby project. So depending on your needs, you might also try that one.

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**Author:** ![thetony20](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/thetony20/32/1121876_2.png) [@thetony20](https://blenderartists.org/u/thetony20)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/which-render-farm-is-the-best/1409298/5 "2022-10-01T13:03:05Z")

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Or, you could maybe tryout a render plugin that speeds things up and just render it yourself, maybe on a older second PC with a half OK GPU or CPU.

So something like this: [https://3dillusions.gumroad.com/l/turbo\_tools](https://3dillusions.gumroad.com/l/turbo_tools)

It may cost a little more to start with, plugin plus some hardware, but then it doesn’t really cost any more to keep using. So I guess it depends on how much you need to render and if the results work for you.