SheepIt Render Farm Description

When a project owner submits their work to the queue, the service divides the animation into individual frames for rendering, dispatching each frame to a connected machine while optimizing its selection based on the available memory and CPU/GPU capabilities. Users can submit an unlimited number of projects, but only two renderings can occur simultaneously to prevent any one individual from overwhelming the render farm with excessive submissions. In instances where the render farm experiences congestion, this limit may be reduced to just one active rendering, a situation that occurs infrequently, typically just a few times each year. This careful management ensures efficient use of resources while maintaining fair access for all users.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
Free
Free Version:
Yes

Integrations

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Company Details

Company:
SheepIt
Website:
www.sheepit-renderfarm.com

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Product Details

Platforms
Windows
Mac
Linux
Types of Training
Training Docs
Customer Support
Online Support

SheepIt Render Farm Features and Options

SheepIt Render Farm User Reviews

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Student & 3D-Designer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Great free blender renderfarm

    Date: Jul 29 2025

    Summary: sheepit renderfarm is a free and open source community powered renderfarm. You contribute your computers processing power to render frames/projects for others and get points for it. Those points you can spend for rendering your own projects. The points are only used to determine the queue position, meaning more points, higher priority.
    I've been a user since 2018, no bigger complaints so far. The only issues arise sometimes from overloaded servers, however that's a funding issue. The devs and admins work very hard to keep the service running quite well. For support join their discord, admins and the community will help you very quickly.

    Positive: - Sheepit is a free and open source community blender renderfarm
    - Devs, Admins and the community are quick to respnd in case of assistance
    - the data is secure

    Negative: - sometimes the servers are overloaded, this is unfortunately a funding issue
    - the UI is a bit dated, more devs from the community could help here

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  • Name: Clark B.
    Job Title: Freelance Game Designer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Sheepit Renderfarm: A must use for Blender users.

    Date: Mar 22 2024

    Summary: I found it to be very pleasing to donate to art, it's a great thing that every blender user should use, and something anybody can contribute to.

    Positive: Sheepit is completely free, and far faster than any other product like Google Colab. The aspect of teams is very fun and addicting, and it seems to be completely safe.

    Negative: There were some issues I experienced in my renders with GPU rendering, where different processors would not always create the same result.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: VR specialist
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It's fast and it's free

    Date: Mar 20 2024

    Summary: I believe SheepIT is the best free render farm. You have to render other users' frames to render your own, but it's a fair system. It's a good way to speed up your rendering and help other users.

    Positive: You get more than you give with SheepIt. This service requires you to render other users' projects to gain points, which you can use to render your own projects. For every frame you render, you get enough points to render approximately 4 frames of your own.
    I've had 20+ users rendering my project at once, and it was about 30x faster than rendering on my PC. No complaints about the rendering speed.
    The render client supports CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.
    And it's free!

    Negative: Sometimes, a frame can take an extremely long time to render. It's not too much of an issue with large projects, though.
    It's not suitable for projects you must keep private, because people who render your project can see thumbnails of the frames they rendered.
    At the time of writing, SheepIT does not support AMD or Apple graphics.

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