Top 5 Cinema 4D Render Farms in 2025

Cinema 4D is software from Maxon which is favored by many 3D artists and studios. This software is one of the best when it comes to 3D animation or motion graphics. In this article, VFXrendering will try to help you choose the best out of top 5 Cinema 4D render farms in 2025. Whether you like it or not, at a certain stage of your production, you will need a render farm.

Why Use a Render Farm for Cinema 4D?

Cinema 4D, like many other 3D software, often work with its built-in renderer Redshift or a third party renderer such as Octane, V-Ray, Arnold, Cycles4D, Corona etc. which needs the power of GPU/CPU. Moreover, Cinema 4D also supports many plugins to do specific task. Therefore, Cinema 4D, its renderer and plugin will need a powerful machine (or many machines) to render.

A normal 3D artist might not have a strong enough computer, or they find it costly to manage a powerful workstation with many extra fees (electricity, cooling, maintenance, etc.). That would be a reason why render farms exists. Artists can still access high-performance computer systems and render their jobs at a much faster speed.

For you to choose the best render farm that help speed up your project, we will introduce to you top 5 render farms for Cinema 4D in 2025 which have the best support. Let’s take a look!

Top 5 Cinema 4D Render Farms in 2025

Fox Renderfarm

Image: foxrenderfarm.com

Fox Renderfarm is from China, established in 2009. It’s a well-known render farm which is the choice of many 3D artists, and is the service for many hits and blockbusters. The approach is still SaaS, but you will proceed with the render on their website. 

  • Hardware: 16 cores (hyperthreading available), 64-128 GB RAM
  • Pricing: free trial $25 credits, with discount for students. Price starts at $0.0306 per core per hour.
  • Cinema 4D support: Because of its approach as SaaS, you will need to check if their Cinema 4D versions and renderers match yours. Below is the list we have collected:
Cinema 4D versionRendererPlugins
R16 – R26
2023
2024
2025
Arnold
Corona
Octane
Redshift
V-Ray
Maxwell
X-Particles
Xfog
Vonc_gelatine
Realflow
Cineversity
Turbulencefd
Trypogen
Signal
Shadowcatcher
Rfconnect
People_in_motion
Nitropose
Mmg_motion_drop
Krakatoa Jb_vray_studiotools
Hot4d
Heyne_drive
Forester
Delta_mush
Cv_vrcam
CADeformerPack
C4depot_real_sky_studio
Brick_shader
BodyPaint_3D
And many more…

Note:

  • Have Fox Renderfarm Cloud Rendering Client app for Cinema 4D, which you can use on your own PC and don’t need to go on their website. However, they only have Windows and Linux versions, no macOS.
  • Support many versions of Cinema 4D and many plugins. You should
  • Many renderers for Cinema 4D supported.

GarageFarm

Garage Farm logo

Garage is a rendering farm from the United Kingdom, which has a history of 12 years in this industry.  It’s also a SaaS render farm with their own app to help you work with their farm directly from your own desk. You can download their app renderBeamer to upload and render your jobs.

  • Hardware: Tesla K80 12GB vRAM and Tesla P100 16GB vRAM for Garage’s GPU, Intel Xeon E5-4669 v4 for CPU.
  • Pricing: free trial $25 credits, with discount for students. Price starts at $0.015 per GHz per hour and $0.0025 per OB hour
  • Cinema 4D support: Below is the list we have collected:
Cinema 4D versionRendererPlugins
R18 – R26
S22 – S26
2023 – 2025+
Native Renderer
Corona 0.6 – 12+
ProRender available upon request
Redshift 2+, 3+, 3.5+, 3.6+, 2025+
V-Ray 3.4 – 7+
Arnold don’t support licensing, only support user generated multi-user license
Cycles 4D still in beta  
MeshTools
TerraformFX
X-Particles
Easy rain 2.0 (available upon request)
Forester
FuV CanvasSize (available upon request)
Gorilla GradeLUTs
GorillaCam
GSG City Kit
HDRI Link
HDRI Packs
HDRI Studio Rig
Light Kit Pro 3.0
Signal
Texture Kit Pro 3.0
Topcoat
Transform
Laubwerk Plants (Kits 1-11)
Ornatrix (available upon request)
Realflow (available upon request)
Respline (up to C4D 2024)
TurbulenceFD (available upon request) 

Note:

  • Support many versions of Cinema 4D, including the latest.
  • Windows, MAC  supported
  • Many common renderers fully supported, but not uncommon like Arnold, Cycles4D, Maxwell, etc.
  • Many plugins fully supported 

iRender

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iRender is a render farm from Vietnam, established in 2019. Of all the render farms in the list, its approach and development are really impressive.

The platform of iRender is IaaS, which means you can control and use their remote servers as your computer. Therefore, you can install any versions of Cinema 4D (which run on Windows 10 and 11), and any renderers and plugins.

  • Hardware: RTX 4090/ 3090 GPU, AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX or AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX CPU
  • Pricing: pricing starts at $9/hour/node to $52/hour/node. 100% bonus for new users’ first deposit and 50% bonus for students and educational purposes.
  • Cinema 4D support:
Cinema 4D versionRendererPlugins
Any version that runs on Windows 10 and 11Native renderer
Arnold CPU and GPU
Keyshot
Maxwell
Octane
Redshift
V-Ray CPU and GPU
Corona
ProRender
And more
any plugins

Note:

  • Support all GPU or CPU renderers for Cinema 4D
  • Support all plugins
  • Having the latest Cinema 4D and Cinema 4D + Redshift pre-installed machine provided with license 
  • No macOS. You will need to connect to a Windows OS server to use
  • If you use older version of C4D you will need to install your app
  • Only one license of C4D and Redshift for free. From the second one, you will need to contact their support and become prime user.

Ranch Computing

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Ranch is a company in France who provide high performance 3d rendering service. It’s a well-established farm which has a long history of 15 years in this industry. They provide a SaaS platform, with a plugin integrated to your Cinema 4D called RANCHecker and a plugin called RANCHSync to synchronize your data. It will help you to check if your project is okay and upload/download your project. If it’s okay, it will upload through RANCHecker. Then it’s their job to render for you and notify you when it’s done, and you can download the results from RANCHSync.

  • Hardware: Up to 192 CPUs or 56 GPUs, 128 or 156 GB RAM
  • Pricing: pricing starts at $0.011-$0.047/hour. Free trials $36 and you need to apply for it.
  • Cinema 4D support: Ranch supports many versions of Cinema 4D, along with a number of renderers and plugins.
Cinema 4D versionRendererPlugins
R20
R21
R24
R25
R26
2023
2024
2025
Native renderer
Arnold CPU and GPU
Redshift (from R25)
Octane (from R21)
V-Ray CPU and GPU (from R24)
Cycles4D
Corona
Anima 5.6.1 (R25, R26, 2023)
CV-AR 1.5 (R20)
Delta Mush 1.11 (R20)
Divider 0.2 (R20, R21)
Forester 1.5.5 (except 2025)
FuV CanvasSize 1.2 (R24,25,26, 2023)
Greyscalegorilla plugins (2023, 2024, 2025)
HDRI Link – (R25)
HDRI Studio Rig 2.148 (R20,21)
HDRLightStudio (R20,25,26, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Hot4D 181 (2023)
Insydium Fused Collection Build 1666 
Kaktak Legacy Bundle 0.26.2 (R24,25,26, 2023)
Laubwerk Plants Kits 1.0.50 
Light Kit Pro (R20,21,24,25)
MagicBook 1.0 (R20)
MeshTools Build 263 
NeXus Simulation Build 311 
NoSpline 2.01 (R21,25,26, 2023)
Ornatrix 3.1.0.35015 (R21,24,25,26, 2023, 2024)
RKT Mesh To Spline 1.1 (R21,24,25,26, 2023)
RealFlow (R20,26, 2023)
Riggedbooks 1.0 (2023, 2024, 2025)
Signal Build 1492 (R20,21,24,25,26, 2023)
Snap To Floor 1.4 (R20)
Substance Native SurfaceSpread 2.0.6 (R21,24,25)
Taiao Build 341 
TerraformFX Build 255 
Transform (R20,21,24,25)
TurbulenceFD 1.0.1486 (R21,24,25,26, 2023)
Vonc Suite 1.2.5 (R25,26, 2023, 2024, 2025)
X-Particles Build 1666 
ca_superdeformerpack 1.40  (R20,21)
nxForces Build 21 (R20,21,24,25,26, 2023)

Note:

  • Fully support many common renderers, but some old version of Cinema 4D might not support Redshift, Octane or V-Ray.
  • Many plugins supported but with specific version, and some new version of C4D might not support that many.

Rebus Render Farm

Image: us.rebusfarm.net

Rebus is a company in Germany who provide high performance 3d rendering service.It has more than 15 years of experience in the field of 3D rendering, and gets the trust of many big studios and companies. They provide SaaS platform They develop tools called Rebusdrop which can be added to your own software and you can just render from your software.

  • Hardware: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32Core) and Intel i9-7980XE CPU; NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 6000 GPU
  • Pricing: pricing starts at 1.28 cent/GHzh for CPU and 0.48 cent/OBh for GPU rendering. Free trial $26.66, student discount 50%.
  • Cinema 4D support: Rebus supports many versions of Cinema 4D, along with popular renderers.
Cinema 4D versionRendererPlugins
R14 – R25
S26
2023
2024
2025
Native renderer
Arnold
Corona
Octane
Redshift
V-Ray
Atmosphere
AXYZ Anima
Forester
Grasskit
Hot 4D
IvyGrow
Laubwerk
Surface Spread
X-Particles

Note:

  • Support many versions of Cinema 4D, including some very old ones.
  • High cost for GPU rendering
  • Many common renderers fully supported, but not uncommon like Cycles4D, Maxwell, etc. 
  • Support plugins, but limited.

Final Words

Cinema 4D is one of some software which is supported by many render farms, with many version. This software is a big name in advertising and motion graphics, it’s understandable that we can easily spot a render farm with it.

We also can see that the support for Cinema 4D and its renderers is plenty. If you use common renderers like Arnold, Redshift, V-Ray, Octane, Corona it’s easy to find one render farm. If you use not-so-common renderers like Cycles4D, Maxwell, etc., they are not supported widely. Moreover, the plugins supported can be a criteria when you choose a render farm for your Cinema 4D project.

Hope that this article can help you choose the best render farm for Cinema 4D project. If you use unpopular renderers and plugins, you should go for Fox Renderfarm, Garage, iRender or Ranch because of their versatility in renderers and plugins. If you use old version of Cinema 4D and don’t have many plugins, you can select Fox Renderfarm, iRender or Rebus.

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