3D Rendering Prices in 2026: A Study of 376 Published Prices

The median published price is €599 for one 3D exterior rendering, €446 for one interior rendering and €501 for 10 seconds of 3D animation. These figures come from 376 verified prices from 130 sources in 29 countries, collected in October 2026.

Every price in this study is one that a studio, a freelance marketplace or an industry guide publishes on its own website, converted to euros. These are market prices, not quotes for a specific project. For how 3Dstudio.co prices its own work, see 3Dstudio.co pricing for rendering projects.

Key findings

• The median published price of one exterior rendering is €700 in Western Europe, €669 in the USA and Canada, €621 in the Nordics, €472 in the UK and Ireland, €350 in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, and €150 at offshore studios in India and Asia.
• Interior images have a lower median price than exterior images in all 6 regions with enough data, and the overall median is €446 for one interior image against €599 for one exterior image.
• Aerial images are the most expensive stills, with a median published price of €855 per image from 19 sources.
• Industry price guides give a median of €937 for one exterior rendering, while the price lists that studios publish for themselves give a median of €599.
• A 3D floor plan has a median published price of €155 per plan, and virtual staging has a median of €41 per photo.
• Launch sets and packages have a median published price of €1,790 per project, and the middle 50 percent of sources publish between €554 and €3,243.
• Published hourly rates for 3D rendering work have a median of €33 per hour, from 8 rates published by 7 sources.

Prices by deliverable

The table shows the median published price for each deliverable, the range of the middle 50 percent of sources, and how many sources published a comparable price. A source that lists several prices for the same deliverable counts once.

The median is the middle price when all sources are sorted from the lowest to the highest. The middle 50 percent range leaves out the cheapest quarter and the most expensive quarter of sources, so one very cheap or very expensive provider does not move it.

Still images are priced per image. An exterior image shows a building and its site from outside, as in 3D exterior rendering. An interior image shows one room or space, as in 3D interior rendering. Packages and virtual tours are priced per project, so their medians depend on what each provider puts in a project.

Prices by region

Exterior and interior images have enough sources to compare regions. A region appears in a table only when at least 3 sources in it publish a comparable price, and each source counts once.

Exterior rendering prices by region

Interior rendering prices by region

The interior figure for India and Asia is based on 3 sources. With so few sources, the range shown is the lowest and the highest price.

Local wages and living costs are a likely reason for the gap, because a studio in a high-wage country has to charge more for the same hours of work. This study measures published prices, not the reasons behind them.

3D animation prices

3D animation has a median published price of €501 per 10 seconds of film, from 22 sources. The middle 50 percent of sources publish between €150 and €992 per 10 seconds. Providers price animation per second, per 30 seconds or per minute, so every price in this study is converted to the cost of 10 seconds of finished film.

By region, the median is €750 per 10 seconds in Western Europe, €521 in the USA and Canada and €196 in India and Asia. For how an architectural film is planned and made, read our guide to architectural animation, or see our 3D animation service.

3D floor plan and virtual staging prices

A 3D floor plan has a median published price of €155 per plan, from 28 sources. The middle 50 percent of sources publish between €76 and €389. “Per plan” means one floor plan image of one layout. The median is €446 in the USA and Canada, €229 in Western Europe, €117 in the UK and Ireland and €55 in India and Asia. See 3D floor plans for the plan types.

Virtual staging is priced per photo: one photo of an empty room, furnished with software. The median published price is €41 per photo, from 9 sources, and the middle 50 percent of sources publish between €21 and €85. In the UK and Ireland, the median is €56 per photo from 4 sources. Read more about virtual staging of empty rooms.

360 panorama and virtual tour prices

A 360 panorama is one image that shows the full view around a single point, so the viewer can look in any direction. Its median published price is €400 per panorama, from 10 sources, and the middle 50 percent of sources publish between €212 and €661. In Western Europe the median is €475 from 6 sources.

A virtual tour links several panoramas into one tour, so it is priced per project. The median published price is €1,000 per project, from 9 sources, with the middle 50 percent between €456 and €2,783. In Western Europe the median is €800 from 4 sources. A tour with more panoramas costs more, which is one reason the range is wide. See 3D virtual tours for what a tour can include.

Launch set and package prices

Packages and launch sets have a median published price of €1,790 per project, from 11 sources. The middle 50 percent of sources publish between €554 and €3,243. A package combines several deliverables for one project, for example a few exterior and interior images and floor plans. What a package contains differs a lot between sources, so compare the contents, not only the price.

In Western Europe the median is €2,847, and in Eastern Europe and the Baltics it is €554. Each figure comes from 3 sources, so treat both as a rough guide. For what a sales launch usually needs, see rendering for real estate developers.

Freelancers and hourly rates

Some providers publish an hourly rate instead of a price per image. The study found 8 published hourly rates from 7 sources. They come from freelance marketplaces, directory profiles, guides and 2 offshore studios. The median is €33 per hour. The middle 50 percent of sources sit between €22 and €80 per hour, and the full range runs from €10 to €118 per hour.

An hourly rate says little about the final price. The number of hours one image takes depends on the scene, the files and the number of revisions. Freelance marketplaces that publish a fixed price per image are included in the medians by deliverable above. For the trade-offs between hiring a freelancer and a studio, see outsourcing 3D rendering to a freelancer or a studio.

Industry price guides vs published price lists

Industry price guides are articles and pages that describe what the market charges, such as cost guides from studios, software vendors, directories and marketplaces. A price list shows what one provider charges for its own work. The medians by deliverable in this study use only the prices that providers publish for themselves. Guides are summarized separately and are never mixed into those medians.

For every deliverable that the guides cover, except virtual staging, the guides’ median is higher than the median of published price lists. For virtual staging, only 2 guides gave a figure. One reason for the gap is that many studios publish “from” prices, which are minimums. Guides often describe a typical or average project instead. If you use a guide to plan a budget, check whether it describes starting prices or typical project prices.

Why the range is so wide

Across sources, the lowest value for one exterior rendering is €51 per image and the highest is €2,390. Each source counts once, at the midpoint of its published range or at its published price. Both ends are based on prices published for a single image, but they do not describe the same work. These are the main things that move the price:

• Scene size. One facade is a smaller job than a full site with landscaping, neighboring buildings, people and cars.
• Level of detail. Custom furniture, materials matched to a specification and close-up views take more modeling and more checking.
• Revisions. Prices differ in how many revision rounds they include and in what a change costs after that.
• Resolution. A 4K image for a website is a smaller job than an 8K to 12K image for a billboard.
• Files. A clean 3D model is faster to start from than 2D drawings, PDF plans or a sketch, which first have to be modeled.
• Deadline. A rush delivery means moving other work, and some providers charge more for it.

The first view of a scene carries the cost of building it. Further views of the same scene cost much less, so a price per image also depends on how many views you order.

For a full explanation of each factor, read what drives 3D rendering cost.

3Dstudio.co pricing

3Dstudio.co is not part of the medians in this study. Each project gets one fixed price. Projects start at €1,000. A single-building launch set typically costs €3,000 to €6,000. Multi-building developer packages typically run €5,000 to €15,000.

Send your drawings, CAD files or a 3D model, and we reply with one fixed price and a delivery date within 30 minutes. See 3Dstudio.co pricing options, or read how the quote and the project stages work.

Methodology

This study collects the prices that 3D rendering providers publish on their own websites. This is how the data was collected, checked and summarized.

• Sources. Only prices that each source publishes on its own page: rendering studios, freelance marketplaces and industry guides. These are published prices, not quotes for a specific project.
• Time. All prices were collected in October 2026.
• Verification. The first pass collected 393 prices. A second pass re-opened every page and confirmed every number. Rows that could not be confirmed were dropped. This left 376 verified prices from 130 sources in 29 countries.
• Currency. Prices in other currencies were converted to euros at the ECB euro reference rates of 9 Oct 2026. Prices in a currency without an ECB reference rate stay in the dataset but are not in the medians.
• Units. Still images are compared per image, virtual staging per photo, floor plans per plan, 360 images per panorama, and packages and virtual tours per project. Animation is converted to 10 seconds of film: a price per second is multiplied by 10, a price per 30 seconds is divided by 3, and a price per minute is divided by 6. Prices in a unit that does not fit the deliverable, for example per square meter, per room, per scene or per floor, stay in the dataset but are not in the medians.
• One value per company. Each price gives one value: the midpoint of a published range, or else the published price. A company that lists several prices for the same deliverable counts once, at the median of its own prices. A studio with a long price list therefore does not outweigh a studio with one price.
• Medians and the middle 50 percent. We report medians, not averages, because a few premium studios would raise an average far above the typical price. The middle 50 percent is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile of sources. Where a cell has only 3 sources, that range is the lowest and the highest price.
• Regions. A region is shown only when it has 3 or more sources for that deliverable.
• Industry guides. Guides that describe the market are summarized separately. When a studio’s page describes the market, for example an average or a typical market range, instead of its own price list, that row also counts as an industry guide.
• Hourly rates. Hourly rates are summarized separately and are not converted into prices per image.

Limitations

• Studios that do not publish their prices are not in this study, so the figures describe studios that sell openly.
• Many prices are “from” prices. A “from” price is a minimum, and the price of a real project can be higher.
• Some sources state that their prices exclude VAT, and not every source says whether VAT is included.
• Some cells have small samples. A median from 3 or 4 sources is a rough guide, not a market rate.

Download the data

The full dataset is one CSV file, free to download: Download the dataset (CSV, 376 rows).

Each row is one verified price. The columns give the source type, the company, the country and region, the deliverable, the published minimum and maximum price, the currency, the unit and the basis (for example a range, a “from” price or a fixed price). They also give the conditions stated on the page, the source URL, the date the price was retrieved, the price in euros and the price converted to the reporting unit. The last column, counted_as, shows how each row was used: published price, industry guide, hourly rate, or kept for reference (unit not comparable).

Cite this study: 3Dstudio.co, “3D Rendering Prices in 2026”, 3dstudio.co, October 2026, https://3dstudio.co/blog/3d-rendering-cost-study-2026/ . Data: 376 published prices from 130 sources in 29 countries. You may quote the figures and charts with a link to this page.

Questions about 3D rendering prices

How much does one exterior 3D rendering cost in 2026?

The median published price of one exterior rendering is €599, based on 53 sources in October 2026. The middle 50 percent of sources publish between €362 and €961 per image. Scene size, level of detail, the files you send and the deadline decide where a project falls in that range.

How much does 3D animation cost per 10 seconds?

The median published price is €501 per 10 seconds of film, from 22 sources. The middle 50 percent of sources publish between €150 and €992 per 10 seconds. A longer film and more detailed scenes raise the price.

Why are 3D rendering prices so different between countries?

The median published price of one exterior rendering is €700 in Western Europe, €669 in the USA and Canada and €150 at offshore studios in India and Asia. Local wages and living costs are a likely reason, but this study measures prices, not causes. Compare what is included, such as revision rounds and resolution, before you compare prices.

Are AI renders cheaper than 3D renderings?

This study does not compare them. AI image and video tools are sold as software subscriptions, not as finished deliverables, so their prices are not in the medians. The study covers published prices for 3D rendering, animation, floor plans, virtual staging, panoramas and virtual tours.

How often is this 3D rendering price study updated?

We plan to refresh the study in 2027 with newly collected and verified prices. Until then, the October 2026 figures and the dataset on this page are the current edition.