Introducing

KeyShot
Cloud Rendering

The power of KeyShot is now available in the cloud. Render your product visuals faster, at the output quality you need, without disrupting your workflow.

Access to KeyShot Cloud Rendering

Access to KeyShot Cloud Rendering is now live for all KeyShot Studio customers! You will see a pop-up window when launching KeyShot Studio after updating to the latest 26.2 update. If you updated to KeyShot Studio 2026.2 and do not see a Cloud Rendering pop-up, please⁠ ⁠contact support.

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Cloud Rendering Features

Support for CPU & GPU

KeyShot Cloud Rendering supports GPU-accelerated and CPU-based rendering, enabling you to tap high-performance hardware without local constraints. Render large scenes, complex materials, and high-resolution animations. Cloud Rendering provides consistent output quality, predictable performance, and the flexibility to continue working locally while jobs are processed remotely.

Joint Queue

The KeyShot Render Queue streamlines your workflow by unifying cloud and network rendering in one place. Easily manage and monitor jobs across all available resources, whether you’re offloading to the cloud or leveraging networked render nodes. This flexible queue ensures maximum performance and efficiency for any production setup.

Download to Multiple Machines

Easily track and download your cloud-rendered assets across multiple machines. With synchronized job histories and centralized asset storage, you can download renders across multiple machines within KeyShot Render Queue.

KeyShot Gallery

The KeyShot Gallery provides a single, comprehensive, highly intuitive, and unified space to view all your rendered images and animations. Easily browse and organize from every source in one streamlined, centralized location.

KeyShot Wallet & Cloud Credits

KeyShot Cloud Credits

KeyShot uses Cloud Credits as the payment method for Cloud Rendering. When you submit a rendering job, the system will automatically calculate the credit cost estimate based on the resources required. When a Cloud Rendering job is submitted, KeyShot will automatically deduct the required credits and begins processing the job, ensuring a seamless, pay-as-you-go workflow. You will be able to purchase Cloud Credits at any time and keep them in your KeyShot Wallet for on-demand use.

Cloud Credit Pricing

Credit cost is based on the total render work your job requires — a hardware-agnostic measure called GigaSamples. One Cloud Credit equals one GigaSample (GS) of render compute. Credits are available for purchase in prepaid packs. The more you buy, the lower the per-credit cost. To purchase additional Cloud Credits, simply visit your KeyShot Account or use the Profile dropdown menu located at the top right of KeyShot Studio. To purchase additional Cloud Credits, simply visit your KeyShot Account or use the profile dropdown menu located at the top right of KeyShot Studio.

The KeyShot Wallet

The KeyShot Wallet provides a secure, convenient way to store and manage Cloud Credits for KeyShot Cloud Rendering. You can easily add more Cloud Credits by linking your KeyShot Wallet within KeyShot or by visiting your KeyShot Account Wallet, making it simple to top up whenever needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cloud Rendering lets you offload demanding KeyShot renders to high-performance cloud hardware. You render faster, keep your local machine free, and stay productive, especially for complex scenes, animations, or tight deadlines.

Cloud Rendering is ideal if you:

  • Need to create high-quality renders without tying up your local machine
  • Require more GPU or CPU power than your hardware provides
  • Want to speed up production by rendering in parallel in the cloud

Cloud Rendering is available to all active KeyShot Studio subscribers on individual accounts. After upgrading to 26.1.1, Cloud Rendering appears as an option in the Render dialog and you will see a Cloud Credits wallet in your KeyShot Account.

Cloud Rendering uses credits, where one credit equals one GigaSample of render compute. Each render shows its credit cost before you submit, calculated from resolution, samples per pixel, and frame count. Credits are deducted only when you submit a job.

Credits can be purchased directly in KeyShot Studio or the Render Queue via “Buy more”, or from your KeyShot Account under Wallet. You can use an existing payment method or add a new card at checkout.

Your completed render automatically downloads to the machine that started the job and is saved to your default rendering folder. You can also download the same render to another machine using the KeyShot Render Queue.

If a job fails before submission, no credits are deducted. You will see an error message explaining what happened so you can retry.

Failed jobs are automatically refunded. If a job appears stuck, contact Support with your job ID, our team can investigate and refund credits where appropriate.

With this release, Cloud Rendering supports individual wallets only. Organization-level credit management, where an admin buys and distributes credits, is planned for a future release.

Full documentation is available in the KeyShot manual: manuals.keyshot.com/kss2026/en-us/manual/Cloud-Rendering.htm

View more information in the KeyShot Manual.

KeyShot Cloud Rendering services are currently operated on infrastructure located in North America. By accessing or using Cloud Rendering, you acknowledge and agree that any scene files, assets, and associated data submitted for rendering will be transferred to, temporarily processed, and stored on servers situated in North America. Data is retained solely for the duration required to complete the rendering job and error logging/support. Users are responsible for ensuring that any such data transfers comply with applicable laws and regulations in their jurisdiction, including but not limited to data protection and privacy legislation. If you are located outside North America, please be aware that your data will be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which our infrastructure operates.