{ "schemaVersion": "1.0", "canonical": "https://superlumin.al/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid", "representations": { "html": "https://superlumin.al/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid", "markdown": "https://superlumin.al/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid.md", "json": "https://superlumin.al/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid.json" }, "retrievalHint": "Read page.summary and the opening of page.body first for the competitor-specific result. page.visuals contains the supporting images. page.body contains the complete comparison.", "page": { "path": "/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid", "bodyFile": "compare-superluminal-vs-blendergrid.md", "title": "Superluminal vs Blendergrid", "seoTitle": "Blendergrid vs Superluminal: Three Cycles Scenes Tested", "description": "Three recorded Cycles comparisons covering upload, checking, price benchmarking, rendering, finalization, download, and displayed two-hour quotes.", "summary": "Blendergrid completed three Cycles render pipelines in 3,747.6 to 5,123.7 seconds. Its three-scene Overall Score was 42.1 against Superluminal's 182.0.", "eyebrow": "Head-to-head", "category": "Comparisons", "pageType": "Article", "published": "2026-08-04", "updated": "2026-08-07", "evidenceStatus": "public-source-comparison", "indexable": true, "tags": [ "Superluminal vs Blendergrid", "Blender render farm comparison" ], "relatedPaths": [ "/compare/blender-render-farms", "/compare/render-farm-interfaces", "/live-previews", "/pricing" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Render farm benchmark dataset, July to August 2026", "url": "https://superlumin.al/seo/evidence/render-farm-benchmarks-2026-08.json", "kind": "First-party benchmark evidence", "checked": "2026-08-04" } ], "facts": [], "visuals": [ { "type": "benchmark-ranking-scatter", "title": "Superluminal and Blendergrid in the benchmark ranking", "description": "Both services are selected. The other six farms stay visible but muted for context.", "image": { "src": "/seo/charts/superluminal-vs-blendergrid-ranking-2026.png", "alt": "Superluminal and Blendergrid selected on the 2026 render farm score scatterplot", "width": 2056, "height": 1666 }, "selectedFarmIds": [ "superluminal", "blendergrid" ], "dataUrl": "/seo/evidence/render-farm-benchmarks-2026-08.json", "dataLabel": "Open the complete benchmark dataset" }, { "type": "image-gallery", "title": "Superluminal recorded workflow", "headerless": false, "layout": "carousel", "items": [ { "src": "/seo/interfaces/superluminal-submission-terminal.png", "alt": "Superluminal submission terminal confirming the queued job after packaging and upload", "caption": "Submission ends in the add-on's terminal: the job is packaged, uploaded, and queued before any browser opens.", "width": 2232, "height": 1516 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/superluminal-live-progress-classroom.webp", "alt": "Superluminal Classroom job starting active rendering on 30 nodes", "caption": "Active rendering started after the upload and queue phases in the same recording.", "width": 1512, "height": 808 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/superluminal-completed-classroom.webp", "alt": "Superluminal Classroom job after all 145 frames completed", "caption": "Provider completion showed all 145 Classroom frames finished.", "width": 1512, "height": 808 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/superluminal-downloaded-classroom.webp", "alt": "Superluminal Classroom job after all 145 frames reached local disk", "caption": "The final boundary confirms the complete local frame set 106.7 seconds after upload began.", "width": 1512, "height": 808 } ] }, { "type": "image-gallery", "title": "Blendergrid recorded workflow", "headerless": false, "layout": "carousel", "items": [ { "src": "/seo/interfaces/blendergrid-uploading-classroom.webp", "alt": "Blendergrid Classroom upload entering its active state", "caption": "Upload started at 01:22:34.033 CEST in the authoritative Classroom recording.", "width": 1512, "height": 812 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/blendergrid-price-benchmarking-classroom.webp", "alt": "Blendergrid Classroom two-hour quote showing 11.73 dollars", "caption": "The selected two-hour Classroom quote showed $11.73. The recording does not show a final debit or invoice.", "width": 1512, "height": 812 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/blendergrid-rendering-classroom.webp", "alt": "Blendergrid Classroom run showing its first completed frame batch", "caption": "The first completed-frame signal appeared 569.0 seconds after upload began.", "width": 1512, "height": 812 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/blendergrid-completed-classroom.webp", "alt": "Blendergrid Classroom job after mandatory finalization", "caption": "Blendergrid exposed Downloads after all 145 frame tiles and 102.8 seconds of finalization.", "width": 1512, "height": 812 }, { "src": "/seo/interfaces/blendergrid-download-complete-classroom.webp", "alt": "Chrome showing the Blendergrid Classroom ZIP download as done", "caption": "Chrome first showed the Classroom ZIP as Done at 02:49:28.233 CEST.", "width": 1512, "height": 812 } ] } ], "machineReadable": { "markdown": "/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid.md", "json": "/compare/superluminal-vs-blendergrid.json" }, "relatedDocs": [ "/docs/blender-addon/upload-settings" ], "relatedDocumentation": [ { "path": "/docs/blender-addon/upload-settings", "title": "Choose an upload mode", "description": "Choose ZIP or PROJECT packaging and configure project-root handling for reliable, repeatable submissions." } ], "body": "Superluminal recorded the shorter render pipeline in each shared Cycles scene. Blendergrid took 3,747.6 to 5,123.7 render-pipeline seconds after upload and before download.\n\n\n\n## Three Blendergrid runs set its score\n\nBlendergrid ranks ninth at 42.1. Its Time Score is 22.9, and its Price Score is 80.6 across the three tested scenes.\n\nBlendergrid has no Fox (EEVEE) run. The [benchmark method](/compare/blender-render-farms) discloses the missing scene but does not apply a numeric penalty.\n\n| Scene | Superluminal render pipeline | Blendergrid render pipeline | Blendergrid displayed two-hour quote |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-classroom.jpg) Classroom | 90.5 s, 30 nodes | 5,123.7 s | $11.73 |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-junkshop.jpg) Junk Shop | 64.5 s, 30 nodes | 4,452.9 s | $7.30 |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-monster.jpg) Monster Under the Bed | 59.9 s, 30 nodes | 3,747.6 s | $4.10 |\n\nThe Blendergrid recordings show the selected quote totals. They do not show a final debit or invoice.\n\n## Required setup took 170.8 to 493.1 seconds\n\nEach run passed through upload, checking, settings review, price benchmarking, and quote selection before render submission.\n\n| Scene | Upload | Required setup and analysis | Submit to first completed batch | Finalization | Download setup and transfer |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-classroom.jpg) [Classroom](/seo/evidence/runs/blendergrid-2h-deadline-classroom-2026-08-06.json) | 23.1 s | 325.0 s | 196.0 s | 102.8 s | 42.5 s |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-junkshop.jpg) [Junk Shop](/seo/evidence/runs/blendergrid-2h-deadline-junkshop-2026-08-02.json) | 84.6 s | 493.1 s | 185.6 s | 95.5 s | 24.5 s |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-monster.jpg) [Monster](/seo/evidence/runs/blendergrid-2h-deadline-monster-2026-08-06.json) | 14.2 s | 170.8 s | 242.3 s | 40.0 s | 22.3 s |\n\nThese phase values retain provider analysis, benchmarking, checking, loading, queueing, rendering, and finalization. They exclude only the documented operator intervals between required actions.\n\nSuperluminal has none of those stages. The add-on checks the project inside Blender, the upload starts the job, and there is no quote to select because the [rate for your chosen node count](/pricing) is visible before you submit. Between pressing Submit and the first frame rendering, nothing needs you.\n\nBlendergrid does not expose worker-start time, hardware, or node allocation. The queue value ends at the first visible completed-frame batch, not physical compute start.\n\n## An hour of frames arriving two at a time\n\nThe recordings show what that opacity feels like. Every run passed a mandatory double preprocessing stage, checking and then price benchmarking, before a render could start. After submission, completed frames arrived in one sequential stream, normally advancing in two-frame batches, with no worker counter and no hardware named anywhere.\n\nThat stream is why the benchmark [infers about one worker equivalent](/compare/blender-render-farms#node-count) for Blendergrid. One machine working through 145 frames is an accurate mental model for the 85-minute Classroom wait. After the last frame, a finalization stage held the output for another 40.0 to 102.8 seconds before download setup began.\n\nThe same submission on Superluminal starts from the opposite premise. You choose 5, 10, or 30 nodes and see the rate before you commit. The job page shows every frame's state and the machine rendering it, and finished frames stream to local disk while the rest render. The 90.5-second Classroom time in the table above is that system at 30 nodes. The [interface guide](/interface) walks the same visibility.\n\n## Rendering dominated each workflow\n\nThe observed first-batch-to-all-frames spans were 4,500.0 seconds for Classroom, 3,678.8 seconds for Junk Shop, and 3,294.5 seconds for Monster.\n\nAll 337 expected PNG files passed archive checks. The output inventories also verified contiguous frame names and decoded the first, middle, and last images.\n\n\n\n", "readingTime": "3 min read", "toc": [ { "id": "three-blendergrid-runs-set-its-score", "title": "Three Blendergrid runs set its score", "level": 2 }, { "id": "required-setup-took-1708-to-4931-seconds", "title": "Required setup took 170.8 to 493.1 seconds", "level": 2 }, { "id": "an-hour-of-frames-arriving-two-at-a-time", "title": "An hour of frames arriving two at a time", "level": 2 }, { "id": "rendering-dominated-each-workflow", "title": "Rendering dominated each workflow", "level": 2 } ], "wordCount": 586, "articleOrder": 4 } }