Green Rendering Plan
Save The Planet - Render With Renewable Energy
GridMarkets is committed to reducing our carbon footprint to enable a more sustainable future. To fulfill our commitment, we partnered with industry-leading, clean energy cloud providers to build a clean VFX and Animation render farm. Our Green Rendering service provides creatives with access to affordable, low/zero carbon studio quality rendering.
Green Plan Calculator
The calculator that follows can be used to estimate the total cost of your Preemptible Plan submission. If you prefer to see our pricing in a table format, see HERE.
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"Service Level" = the maximum concurrent machines count/submission (see "Max. Machines)"
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"Machine-Hour Cost (USD)" = the cost of running one machine for one hour
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"Est. Time (hh:mm:ss)" = Elapsed time in hours:minutes:sec to complete the submission
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"Est. Cost (Credits)" = cost estimate (in GridMarkets credits)
How to Find Your Average Render Time per Frame
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Enter your preferences for "Service", "Renderer" and "Machine".
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Submit 5 to 10 representative frames.
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Enter the average render time (see "Average Task Time" in the screenshot example below) into "Ave. Render Time per frame (mins)".
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Enter the total number of frames in the "Frames" box.
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Hit "Calculate" to get your estimate.
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NOTE: The calculator results are not precise - and should serve only as a guide.
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Green Pricing
Service | Type | Machine | CB | OB rating* | RAM (gb) | Green Pricing: (1-5 machines) |
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Houdini | CPU | GM1600 | CB = 5,000 | 32 | $0.37 |
Houdini | CPU | GM4800 | CB = 14,000 | 64 | $0.97 |
Houdini | gpu | OB220 | OB = 220 | 60 | $0.69 |
Maya | CPU | GM1600 | CB = 5,000 | 32 | $0.37 |
Maya | CPU | GM4800 | CB = 14,000 | 64 | $0.97 |
Maya | gpu | OB220 | OB = 220 | 60 | $0.69 |
C4D | CPU | GM1600 | CB = 5,000 | 32 | $0.37 |
C4D | CPU | GM4800 | CB = 14,000 | 64 | $0.97 |
C4D | gpu | OB220 | OB = 220 | 60 | $0.69 |
Blender | CPU | GM1600 | CB = 5,000 | 32 | $0.21 |
Blender | CPU | GM4800 | CB = 14,000 | 64 | $0.66 |
Blender | gpu | OB220 | OB = 220 | 60 | $0.49 |
* Costs are represented in $US/machine-hour. We charge by the machine-second. Costs are all inclusive (i.e. machine time; operating system and software licenses; data egress and 15 days of data storage are included).
"OB" refers to a machine's approximate Octane Benchmark performance used to deliver the service.
"CB" refers to a machines CINEBENCH performance.
Note: To help balance its machine inventory, GridMarkets may run your submission on the performance equivalent of your machine selection. Your project costs and performance will not be impacted in such cases.
How to Select Green Machines
In Envoy profile page, see the "Update Machine Preferences" section (see next). Select any machine with a "Green" suffix.
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