A render farm you can switch off

Deadline weeks need more cards than the rest of the year does. Bring your own image or scene, render the frames, and stop paying the moment the last one writes out.

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Ray-traced still life of a glass octahedron, a brushed metal block and a matte sphere

A glass orb reflecting blue and teal light on a dark surface

Blender with OptiX, already built

The image carries Blender and the CUDA/OptiX runtime. Nothing to compile before the first frame.

A desktop PC with a glass side panel, interior lit in blue and teal

Whole cards render predictably

A shared GPU makes frame times a guess. The card is yours for the life of the pod, so a sequence costs what the test frame said it would.

A wide view of a data center hall with long rows of server cabinets

A farm you switch off

Ten pods for a sequence this week and none the next. Per-hour billing carries no reservation between them.

Ready to launch

Templates for this work

Official images with the drivers and the stack already in place.

blender
Linux Desktop
Ubuntu

Hardware

Cards that suit this work

Every Meshive pod gets a whole, non-virtualized GPU. These are the ones we would reach for first.

RTX 409024GB VRAM · ConsumerBest frames per dollar for Cycles
RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell48GB VRAM · WorkstationMost production scenes at 48GB
RTX 6000 Ada48GB VRAM · Workstation48GB with the workstation driver stack
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell96GB VRAM · WorkstationHeavy scenes and 8K frames at 96GB

All GPUs and current pricing

A GeForce RTX card standing edge-on against near-black, its edges rimmed in green and blue light

Getting started

Three steps

1Start the Blender template, or bring your own image if the pipeline needs it.
2Attach a volume for the .blend file, assets and output frames.
3Render headless over SSH, or use the Linux Desktop template when you need the UI.