V-Ray is now free for the Blender community. Blender is the starting point for countless talented artists, and we want to make V-Ray even more accessible to you, the next generation of 3D artists.
Perfect for learning, teaching, creating content, and even for your personal or small-scale freelance projects, this free license is renewable every 3 months at no cost, giving you access to everything you need to get started with V-Ray.
Production rendering that scales
Take your rendering to the next level with V-Ray, a raytracer built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. With a powerful CPU, GPU, and hybrid rendering, you can take full advantage of your hardware and meet the demands of productions of all sizes.
The solution for any project
V-Ray is your trusted tool for any creative endeavor. From high-end, ultra-realistic rendering with physically accurate lighting, such as lifelike caustics, to stylized, non-photorealistic shading and lighting, V-Ray offers unparalleled versatility to bring any vision to life with minimal setup.
V-Ray Interactive Rendering
V-Ray’s interactive rendering is available via the V-Ray Frame Buffer, providing instant visual feedback on scene changes. It supports both CPU and GPU rendering, offers denoising for near real-time previews, region rendering, and more controls to speed up look development.
Sharper, cleaner renders—faster
Enjoy fast, high-quality, noise-free viewport rendering with the NVIDIA OptiX AI Denoiser and Intel® Open Image Denoiser. Use the V-Ray Denoiser to quickly produce clean final images and make use of V-Ray’s firefly removal rendering option to automatically detect and eliminate bright pixels for flawless results.
Distributed Rendering
Render across multiple computers to handle any project size or deadline with ease. Update 2 brings cutting-edge distributed rendering technology, enabling faster, scalable performance across any number of machines. With smart caching, efficient hardware utilization, simple setup, intuitive controls, and easy troubleshooting, it's the most seamless rendering experience yet.
Compositing-ready content
Unlock ultimate creative control over your rendered images and streamline your compositing workflow with an extensive set of beauty, utility, and matte passes, including multi-channel and deep EXR output, Cryptomatte, Light Path Expressions, and more. Advanced output settings provide even greater flexibility in post-production.
Windows
Processor – Intel1 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support
RAM – 8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more
(The actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.)
Operating system – Microsoft® Windows 10, or Windows 11 operating system
GPU Acceleration – NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing-, Ampere-, and Blackwell-based NVIDIA card(s) with the latest recommended video driver
NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with the latest recommended video driver
V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2
NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, or Blackwell-based NVIDIA card with the latest recommended video driver
The minimum required compute capability is 5.22
License Server – 6.2.0 or later
macOS
macOS version – 11.0 or newer
Processor
Up to Blender 4.5 – Apple ® M1 or later
Blender 5.0 – only ARM processors
RAM – Recommended 8GB or more, 8GB or more swap file. Minimum 4GB and 4GB swap file.