RenderMan
The facts below are what the maker publishes about RenderMan, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From RenderMan's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Commercial RenderMan | Free | Non-commercial use · two node-locked licenses per forum registration · licenses expire every 120 days · Stylized Looks excluded |
| Commercial maintenance | $250 a year | Per RenderMan license · includes support, upgrades, and beta access within a 1-year term · Yearly maintenance |
| Commercial RenderMan | $595, paid once | $595 per license · includes one free Tractor license · floating by default |
The facts
Each one read from RenderMan's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Commercial licensing
- Commercial licenses are floating by default, and node-locked licenses can be made available upon request.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Denoiser
- RenderMan includes a machine-learning denoiser developed with Disney Research and trained using Disney and Pixar data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hardware requirements
- RenderMan and XPU require an AVX-capable processor; XPU and the OptiX denoiser require an Nvidia Pascal-or-newer GPU, and XPU requires at least 12 GB of VRAM.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Bridge tools are available for Maya, Houdini, Solaris, Katana, and Blender.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Pixar describes RenderMan as production rendering software used for feature films, visual effects, and animation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Non-commercial limits
- Non-commercial use is limited to the latest version and excludes Stylized Looks; commercial work requires a commercial license.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Open standards
- RenderMan supports standards including Alembic, OpenColorIO, OpenEXR, OpenVDB, OSL, and USD.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- The technical specifications list Linux EL9, macOS Sequoia 15.x, and Windows 10 and 11; macOS support for XPU is in progress.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Physically based rendering
- It supports multi-bounce ray-traced global illumination and ray-traced subsurface scattering.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- RenderMan is Pixar software for rendering visual effects and animation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- Pixar offers private forums for studios that need added privacy; the reviewed product pages do not state security certifications.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Stylized rendering
- The Stylized Looks toolset supports non-photorealistic styles such as illustration and anime.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- Commercial customers can use Pixar’s customer support forum; non-commercial users receive community support and access to an unofficial Discord.checked 9 Oct 2026
- XPU
- RenderMan 27 features XPU, a hybrid CPU and GPU renderer with multi-GPU support.checked 9 Oct 2026
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