The high-quality rendering your creativity deserves: V-Ray for Blender is here

What is V-Ray for Blender?

V-Ray for Blender is an award-winning renderer that brings high-end, ray-traced photorealism to Blender.

Whether aiming for high-end photorealism or stylized looks, V-Ray delivers professional-grade quality that scales effortlessly for any project, no matter the size or complexity.

V-Ray for Blender comes with the rendering essentials needed to create stunning visuals and built-in tools like post-processing, a render-ready asset library, cloud rendering, and collaboration solutions.

Trusted by top studios worldwide for feature films, TV series, game trailers, and visualizations, V-Ray can handle anything. Now, it’s available to every Blender user, unlocking creative possibilities beyond just rendering, so artists can do more without interrupting their creative flow.

What to expect with V-Ray for Blender

Superior quality and realism

With V-Ray, you can achieve photorealistic results much faster than with the built-in renderer, since there is no need for complex manual node setups. Physically accurate lighting, materials, cameras, lens effects, and smart default settings do the heavy lifting for you. This means you spend less time adjusting parameters and more time on being creative.

Feature highlights:

Global Illumination
Real-world cameras & lens effects
PBR materials
V-Ray’s award-winning ray tracing rendering technology

Faster and artist-friendly workflows

V-Ray for Blender can speed up your creative process and help you finish projects faster, without unnecessary complexity. With its built-in post processing, you can fine-tune renders without re-rendering or switching to third-party tools. With access to almost 6,000 ready-to-render assets, you can populate scenes in an instant. And with push-button cloud rendering, you can offload heavy renders and easily share your work and manage feedback.

Feature highlights:

V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB): Light Mix, color correction, layered compositing, masking, and more.
Chaos Cosmos asset library
Chaos Cloud rendering & collaboration
V-Ray Scene file format
V-Ray default parameters

A reliable renderer that can handle anything

V-Ray for Blender is a production-proven renderer that has been used across industries for over 20 years, and is built to scale. It scales with your hardware so you can meet the demands of any project, even with scenes with billions of polygons. It’s also capable of smart and memory-efficient handling of complex lighting setups with many sources and HDRIs, and cloudy skies.

Feature highlights:

CPU (V-Ray), GPU (V-Ray GPU), hybrid rendering (CUDA)
Chaos Cloud rendering
AI denoising
V-Ray proxy
Adaptive lights

What are some of the most common use cases?

V-Ray for Blender is designed for artists and studios working in any industry who need the highest level of realism and versatility in their rendering workflows. It’s ideal for:

Photorealistic stills and animations

Archviz (exteriors & interiors)
Product design and visualization (consumer goods, electronics, furniture..)
Automotive and vehicle rendering (cars, aircraft, watercraft…)
Advertising, branding, and packaging (photoreal campaign assets, hero shots)
Characters and creatures (digital humans/doubles, skin shading, clothing, hair/fur)
Environments and worlds (nature, urban scenes, worldbuilding, set extensions)
Medical and scientific visualization (anatomical, surgical, etc.)
VFX (realistic effects such as fire, smoke, etc.)

How much does it cost?

A standalone Blender-only version of V-Ray is available with monthly and annual plans at a special community price. V-Ray for Blender is also available with existing V-Ray subscriptions, at no additional cost. Explore pricing here.

What’s coming next?

Thanks to the feedback from our beta testers, we are already working on improving V-Ray for Blender. Your input drives development, so keep the ideas coming and vote on the V-Ray Ideas Portal to influence what comes next!

How to get started

Try V-Ray for Blender if you don’t have a current V-Ray license
Download V-Ray for Blender (free for existing V-Ray subscribers)
Master V-Ray for Blender with our comprehensive Help Docs
Start exploring with these sample scenes
Watch the getting started video
Join the V-Ray for Blender community forum

Both the Blender and V-Ray communities have been asking for an integration to bring these two powerful tools together for some time. After 200 days in beta, and our biggest testing group ever, we’re excited to bring you the first commercial release.

Have a V-Ray for Blender beta license?

You can keep using it until July 8, 2025. During this time, your beta license lets you either continue working with the beta version or try out the official full release of V-Ray for Blender.

After July 8, when your beta license expires, you’ll still be able to test the full version by starting a 30-day free trial.

Frequently asked questions

Is V-Ray for Blender available with existing V-Ray subscriptions?

Yes, V-Ray for Blender is available at no extra cost for those who already have an active V-Ray subscription. If you do not yet have a V-Ray subscription, you can try V-Ray for Blender for free.

Can Cycles materials work with V-Ray for Blender?

Yes. V-Ray for Blender supports rendering essential Cycles materials. We support Principled, Diffuse, Emissive, Glossy, Sheen, Glass, Refraction BSDFs. You can re-render existing Blender projects with V-Ray to explore its capabilities. There is no need to start from scratch or manually rebuild materials. Soon, Cycles-to-V-Ray material conversion will be available to enable you to effortlessly translate existing material libraries to V-Ray.

Which Blender versions does V-Ray support?

V-Ray for Blender officially supports Blender 4.2 LTS, 4.3, and 4.4. The goal is to maintain compatibility with the latest LTS release and the two most recent official versions.

Which operating systems does V-Ray for Blender work on?

V-Ray for Blender is currently available for Windows. Support for macOS and Linux is planned and will be introduced in future updates.

What hardware do I need to run V-Ray for Blender?

You can check the V-Ray for Blender system requirements here.