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



V-Ray for Blender has arrived, offering award-winning rendering that meets open-source creative freedom. 


V-Ray is now available as a fully integrated renderer for Blender, allowing artists to create photorealistic stills and animations with an award-winning rendering technology. 

You’re excited. We’re excited. Learn more about it 👇.

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
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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
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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 
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Who is V-Ray for Blender designed for?

V-Ray for Blender is made for anyone who wants pro-level rendering in Blender, whether you're an experienced independent or studio artist, an aspiring professional, or an educator. It’s built to support full Blender workflows, connect to V-Ray pipelines, and offer the power and quality needed for everything from learning to large-scale production.

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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.)
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Stylized and creative looks

V-Ray also supports a wide range of stylized rendering styles for:

  • Fiction characters 
  • Animations and storytelling 
  • Motion graphics 
  • Isometric scenes 
  • Stylized branding and packaging 
  • Sci-fi and fantasy worlds
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NPR (non-photorealistic rendering) styles 

V-Ray can also support the creation of a wide range of non-photorealistic rendering looks, such as hand-painted effects, stylized realism (softened, idealized features with realistic elements), flat design (simplified shapes, bold colors, minimal shading), abstract or surreal forms, retro-inspired, and low-poly aesthetics.

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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!

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How to get started

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.

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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


For further FAQs, please visit our Help Center.

Open-source power. Studio-quality rendering.

Experience V-Ray for Blender.
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About the author

Gemma Falconer da Silva

Gemma is part of the Content team at Chaos and loves to share practical tips and trending info to help improve your workflows and visualizations. If you have something you'd like to share with the wider Chaos community, email blog-editor@chaos.com.

Originally published: July 1, 2025.
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