Vray 2 > 3 in 06/2014 : 958 $ with 4 years of updates and major upgrades like 3.5 till 2018 !!! What really stands out when watching on my upgrade costs from Vray 2 up to Vray 5 is a massive increase: I have lots of downtimes for my renderfarm, because i don`t use it when doing stills or setting up the scene, shading, lighting, animating for later rendering, etcetera.i would estimate using it only 2 months per year, for the rest of the time it`s down.

I think for freelancers who have to find a balance for the best value for their used CPU ( price per core ) and numbers of servers, it`s somehow adverse. Just upgraded my servers at the end of 2019 with affordable 1950X threadripper Cpu`s, but it seems to be more efficient to have bought instead 24,32 or 64 core CPUs to reduce the amount of rendernodes. I could live with the 600 $ for the workstation upgrade, but the rendernodes ( 1710 $ ) are getting way too expensive for me. As a freelancer with 1 workstation and 10 render node license i will have to pay 2310 $ ( for upgrading from Vray Next 4 to 5 ). Well, i`m somehow getting frustrated about the pricing for the upgrades to Vray 5.

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