Renderly - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Renderly is a programmatic video generation platform for teams that need the same video hundreds or thousands of times over with different data in it: product videos, real estate listings, personalized outreach, sports recaps, social clips, job ads, and daily recurring content.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Build a template in the browser editor, or start from one of 100+ ready-made templates.

2. Mark any layer as dynamic. Text, images, video clips, audio, and shapes can all become variables, named by you.

3. Send a render request with a JSON object of replacement values. One request per video, or one loop over a spreadsheet, CRM export, or product feed.

4. Get a webhook callback with a hosted MP4 URL when the render finishes.

There is no After Effects dependency, no local render farm, and no plugin to install. Renders run on Renderly's autoscaling cloud fleet.

EDITOR

Timeline-based editor with layered overlays: text, images, video, audio, captions, shapes, and stickers. Frame-accurate positioning, drag and drop with snapping, keyframe animation, motion and text-animation presets, transitions, color grading, and 3D tilt effects. Live preview before you spend a credit.

OUTPUT SPECS

- Format: MP4 (H.264)

- Resolution: 1080p, 2K, and 4K on every plan

- Any aspect ratio, including 16:9 landscape, 9:16 vertical, and 1:1 square

- Custom canvas sizes and per-render duration

- Videos are delivered to a hosted URL and stay in your account. They are not deleted after 24 hours or 7 days.

API AND AUTOMATION

- REST API with an OpenAPI spec: create renders, check job status, list templates and projects, and read the exact variable contract for any template before you call it.

- Render from a stored project, a system template, or raw JSON input props.

- Webhooks for render.completed and render.failed, signed with HMAC-SHA256 and retried three times with exponential backoff. Per-request callbacks are supported for one-off jobs.

- Zapier app, Make modules, and n8n nodes, all with dynamic variable fields that load the variables of the template you pick.

- MCP connector, so AI assistants and coding agents such as Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and VS Code can browse your library and fire renders in plain language, using your own account and credits.

AI FEATURES

- AI voiceover: pass a script as a template variable and Renderly generates the narration in the same render request. 0.5 credits per 1,000 characters.

- Auto-captions: word-synced captions transcribed from the audio in your video, styled in the editor. 0.25 credits per caption minute.

SECURITY AND ACCESS

Bearer API key authentication on every endpoint, HTTPS everywhere, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhook payloads so you can verify that a callback came from Renderly, Google OAuth and passwordless email sign-in, OAuth-based authorization for the MCP connector, and per-account asset storage on AWS S3. Business plans include 5 team seats, 25 webhook endpoints, and priority in the render queue.

PRICING

Credit-based and per rendered minute, with no seat minimums. 1 credit renders 1 minute of 1080p output; 2K costs 2 credits per minute and 4K costs 4. Start with 5 free credits. Pay as you go at $0.20 per credit with no subscription and credits that never expire, or subscribe: Creator at $29/month for 300 credits per month, Business at $99/month for 1,500 credits per month. Extra credits are $0.10 (Creator) or $0.08 (Business). Unused credits roll over up to twice your monthly allowance.

Free tools are available without an account: a render cost calculator, video resizer, video trimmer, video to GIF, video to MP3, and OG image generator.