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Chaos V-Ray

Chaos V-Ray

The ultimate 3D visualization toolkit

V-Ray is a fast, easy, and cost-effective way to generate highly realistic images of your designs.

A photorealistic 3D interior render of a modern, luxury hair salon, generated with V-Ray 7. The brightly lit space features three wash stations with large illuminated oval mirrors, warm wooden ceiling and wall panels, and a stylish waiting area with an organic sofa and ribbed poufs in the foreground.
21 April 2026 - News
V-Ray 7 Update 3: a new standard in speed, AI and photorealism

What is V-Ray?

The 3D Rendering Plugin for All Leading 3D Software Titles

Features

Real-time rendering in the V-Ray viewport

Explore and evaluate your scene in real time, without switching between windows or waiting for lengthy render processes. Thanks to the integration of Chaos Vantage, you get immediate visual feedback at production quality, including realistic lighting, materials and global illumination, all within your familiar V-Ray environment.

(This functionality is available with a Chaos Vantage license and launches first in V-Ray for Rhino and SketchUp, with additional V-Ray integrations coming soon).

A photorealistic 3D exterior render of a luxury modern villa with a large swimming pool, demonstrating real-time water rendering in Chaos Vantage and V-Ray 7. The water surface displays accurate reflections of the sky, lounge chairs, and the surrounding tall pine trees.

The V-Ray Collection

The complete suite for professional ray-traced presentations.

Prachtige 3d render van een strand vergezicht.

Choose the most comprehensive V-Ray Collection and gain access to:

  • Hyperrealistic rendering
  • Realistic crowds and traffic simulation
  • Scene exploration in raytraced quality

For a fraction of the total price!

In Practice

See how others are using V-Ray in real-world projects. Get inspired and discover new ways to apply it.

System requirements

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Software
  • Operating system Windows 10 or 11 – 64bit
  • Host software SketchUp 2024 – 2026
  • 3ds Max 2020 – 2025
  • Rhino 6 -8
  • Blender 4.2 – 5.0
  • Maya 2020 – 2025
  • Houdini 18.5 – 19
Recommended hardware requirements
  • Processor Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support
  • RAM 64GB
  • TCP/IP Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
  • Video card Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) or NVIDIA RTX with the latest driver. Minimum 2 GB VRAM.

V-Ray on Mac OS?

Note! Only some of the applications on offer are available on macOS. The render plugins for SketchUp, Blender, Maya and Houdini are available on macOS. The remaining plugins are Windows only.

Plans and Pricing

Chaos V-Ray is available for commercial use and in the following subscription bundles types (excl. 21% VAT).

V-Ray Solo

€474 per year
  • Named user license
  • Per month: € 78,65
  • Per 3 year: € 1422
  • V-Ray Rendering plugin
  • Chaos Veras AI rendering
  • Chaos Cosmos
  • 100 Chaos Credits
  • Now with 3000 Chaos Credits extra

V-Ray Premium

€706,80 per year
  • Floating license
  • Per month: € 119,90
  • Per 3 year: € 2095,90
  • V-Ray Rendering plugin
  • Chaos Veras AI rendering
  • Chaos Cosmos
  • 500 Chaos Credits
  • Now with 3000 Chaos Credits extra

V-Ray Collection

€838,80 per year
BEST CHOICE
  • Named user license
  • Per 3 year: € 2504,90
  • Per 1 year – floating: € 1138,80
  • Per 3 year – floating: € 3403,90
  • V-Ray Rendering plugin
  • Chaos Veras AI rendering
  • Chaos Cosmos
  • Vantage Realtime scene explorer
  • Anima Crowd and Traffic animation
  • 1500 Chaos Credits
  • Now with 3000 Chaos Credits extra

Upgrades

… , you will have the following upgrade options:

  • from V-Ray Solo to:
    • V-Ray Premium
    • ArchViz Collection
  • from V-Ray Premium to:
    • ArchViz Collection
  • from V-Ray Enterprise to:
    • ArchViz Collection

You will then always pay the prorated difference in value of your current subscription and the one you want.

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Educational licenses

V-Ray is at available at an educational discount as part of the V-Ray Education Collection

Note: Educational licenses are only available to students and teachers of non-commercial, government-subsidized full-time education programs. Institutions with a clear commercial focus can only receive commercial licenses.

Add-ons

Build Your Own Render Farm

Create your own render farm and utilize computers on your local network to assist with your renders. Each additional computer requires one Render Node.

Monthly License:
Per node: € 77,90 excl. VAT

1-Year License:
Per node: € 190,80 excl. VAT
Per 5 nodes: € 838,80 excl. VAT
Per 10 nodes: € 1486,80 excl. VAT
Per 20 nodes: € 2650,80 excl. VAT
Per 50 nodes: € 5614,80 excl. VAT
Per 100 nodes: € 7414,809 excl. VAT

3-Year License:
Per node: € 562,90 excl. VAT
Per 5 nodes: € 2501,90 excl. VAT
Per 10 nodes: € 4442,90 excl. VAT
Per 20 nodes: € 7918,90 excl. VAT
Per 50 nodes: € 16809,90 excl. VAT
Per 100 nodes: € 22226,90 excl. VAT

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Latest news

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Questions or more information?

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