Best priced Render Farms

[3di]

Hi

I recently had to cancel my subscription to Corona due the corona team revoking my chosen render farms licence.  Pixel plow charged $0.005 per ghz hour, making them 4 times cheaper than any of the other farms I've managed to find.  My business couldn't really afford a 400% increase in rendering costs, particularly as i'm a reasonably new entity, still trying to gain a regular client base.

I'm just starting this thread in the hopes that someone may be able to suggest an alternative farm whose prices are similar to what I've been paying.  The only pre-requisites are forest pack and growfx support, and a price per ghz of $0.005 - $0.01.

I'll subscribe to this thread so that hopefully in the not too distant future someone will be able to suggest a farm, and  i'll be able to return to Corona.

In the meantime, i'm going to try Arion or Indigo if anyone has any thought on which is the best of the two?

Cheers

Michael.

[Ludvik Koutny]

If your rendertimes are so high you need renderfarm to back you up, then good luck trying those two unbiased and pretty much discontinued renderers. That will certainly make your situation "better" ;)

[FrostKiwi]

and pretty much discontinued renderers.

Naah still alive and breathing.
Arion and Indigo are specialised in what they are trying to achive.
Indigo pushed for a novel light transport method, but quickly found itself in the shadow if Maxwell render, which did that even more specialized than indigo two years prior, which is why all the Rolex and diamond shots ended up there instead of with indigo.
Random control's arion basicly played Pixar in their need for an in house renderer, that they molded to their needs. One of those was a strong Framebuffer with a ton of smart HDR functions, which became so popular, that they sold it seperatly and more focus on artsy control. (Best render elements handling of any renderer to date, their pretty dope atmosphere simulator, hair and fur)

Both specialisations don't hinder someone doing archviz, but don't exactly help you out either.
Also both were build as a primarily GPU accelerated renderer. If you used Corona, you probably have a kickass CPU, which these two didn't have their main focus on being the fastest with.
Honestly, if you have a bad relationship with Corona, your best bet is Vray, since they are not too far away in style.
Lastly, there was a thread of people comparing render farm costs, but can't find it, since I didn't have any useful info to post and forum search doesn't turn it up for me. Maybe someone can link it.
Hope your licence stuff gets resolved and/or good luck finding a new way.

[Ludvik Koutny]

Ah, sorry. I confused Arion with FryRender.

But regarding Indigo, I still think it looks quite pale future-wise. AFAIK they have serious problems with development pace and quality of their 3ds Max plugin. They also do not seem to innovate much. Lastly, I know Indigo has some GPU version in works, but Indigo was build from ground up as CPU renderer.

[3di]

Thanks for your replies guys, I think I may be in luck. 

I've just found a render farm that only charge $0.003 per ghz/h (that's about 5-7 times cheaper than nearly all the other render farms i've found), they have managed rendering as default and 24 hour live chat support!  I'm just going to submit some old files to them that I've had rendered previously with pixelplow so I can make sure they can deliver.

I'll post back with details once I've tested them.

[3di]

The website were amazing for larger job such as animation but not so much so for smaller still images.  The reason is there's a small charge of a few dollars to cover the cost of it being a managed render service.

So for animations and very large images they're good, as their charge is the lowest i've found so far at $0.003 per ghz/h.

They're called myrenderbox if anyone's interested.

[Ondra]

well.. they dont have a Corona license, that is interesting... let me find out more.

[3di]

And their website appears to have gone offline since you posted that!  Perhaps they're actually a middle man?  If so, will you let me know who they use as their prices will invariably be even cheaper.