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V-Ray

3D rendering plugin for photorealistic imagery and animation

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V-Ray - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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V-Ray overview

What is V-Ray?

Chaos® V-Ray® is a 3D rendering plugin available for SketchUp, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, and more. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television. With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality visualizations. V-Ray has a large community of users and is recognized for its incredible versatility. V-Ray has been honored with a Sci-Tech Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy Award® for bringing fully ray-traced photorealistic CGI to the film and television industries.

Who uses V-Ray?

By industry, V-Ray reviewers are most commonly professionals in architecture & planning (52%). The most frequent use case for V-Ray cited by reviewers is 3D CAD (57% of reviewers).

What are the most popular integrations for V-Ray?

The V-Ray integration most frequently cited by reviewers is SketchUp, a 3D architecture product rated 4.8 out of 5 for its integration with V-Ray.

Starting price

Free

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V-Ray’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.7

(31)

V-Ray reviews

Overall rating

4.7

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.39/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“We have created our best renders with v-ray and we have used it with all of our modelling software which is great because it does not limit us on that.”

Favio R.

Project Architect

“With vray, I have the ability to create realistic renderings for clients all over the world. The quality and value that vray gives my renderings is unmatched.”

Lindsay W.

Owner

“This renderer delivers an unbeatable quality of image rendering when used correctly, which we love and our clients as well.”

Favio R.

Project Architect

Cons

“After many upgrades, the stability of the operation decreased, after one of them I lost many years of work because the program did not recognize old materials, poor application support for Rhino.”

Marcin M.

Owner, Industrial Designer

“Have limited features and takes time to render.”

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“Vray can be tough to understand. I've watched countless tutorials over the last several years to understand how each feature affects the outcome.”

Lindsay W.

Owner

Who uses V-Ray?

Based on 31 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Architecture & Planning

Design

Information Technology and Services

Marketing and Advertising

Others

Use cases

3D CAD

3D Rendering

V-Ray's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from V-Ray users:

Animation

3.9

(21)

Modeling & simulation

4.0

(20)

Content library

4.3

(21)

Rendering

4.6

(14)

3D design & modeling

4.6

(13)

Third-Party integrations

4.8

(9)

All V-Ray features

Features rating:

4.5

(31)

API

3.9

(7)

Multiple format support

5.0

(1)

Multiple projects

4.4

(8)

Design management

3.8

(11)

Building information model

4.0

(7)

3D modeling

(0)

For architects

(0)

For manufacturers

(0)

Workflow management

(0)

V-Ray alternatives

V-Ray

4.7

(31)

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

3.8

Features

4.5

Value for Money

3.9

Customer Support

4.1

Onshape

4.5

(340)

visit website

Starting from

1500

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.5

Features

4.1

Value for Money

4.5

Customer Support

4.7

CREACOMPO GLOBAL

4.5

(24)

visit website

Starting from

2400

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.2

Customer Support

4.6

D5 Render

4.8

(369)

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Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.8

Features

4.7

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.6

V-Ray pricing

Value for money rating:

3.9

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan

Free trial

Subscription

V-Ray Solo

No pricing info

V-Ray Premium

No pricing info

ArchViz Collection: V-Ray edition

No pricing info

User opinions about V-Ray price and value

Value for money rating:

3.9

(31)

To see what individual users think of V-Ray's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“We have created our best renders with v-ray and we have used it with all of our modelling software which is great because it does not limit us on that.”

Favio R.

Project Architect

“With vray, I have the ability to create realistic renderings for clients all over the world. The quality and value that vray gives my renderings is unmatched.”

Lindsay W.

Owner