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RenderStreet completed all four scenes with exact dollar charges, which several farms here could not manage.\n\n\n\nRenderStreet ranked fifth overall at 86.5, with a Speed Score of 68.8 and a Cost Score of 121.7: cheaper than the reference, slower. The [benchmark method](/compare/blender-render-farms) explains both numbers.\n\n## Nine contacts and no account\n\nTesting RenderStreet was harder than rendering on it. Our own sign-up never produced a working account. Nine contacts across email, the support form, and LinkedIn resolved nothing.\n\nAn existing customer finally lent us account access, and every recorded run below ran through it. That is why RenderStreet's recordings are dated August 6 and 7 instead of August 1 and 2. We paid the recorded job charges.\n\nA Superluminal account exists the moment you finish the form. The first render needs no human on our side.\n\n## Recorded times and charges\n\nRenderStreet sells two products that behave nothing alike. Everything below is On Demand GPU, the plan you would pick for a deadline.\n\n| Scene | Fastest Superluminal | RenderStreet | Superluminal charge | RenderStreet charge |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-classroom.jpg) Classroom | 90.5 s | 530.3 s | $1.90 | $4.37 |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-junkshop.jpg) Junk Shop | 64.5 s | 345.7 s | $1.21 | $2.91 |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-monster.jpg) Monster Under the Bed | 59.9 s | 373.6 s | $0.98 | $2.12 |\n| ![](/seo/benchmarks/thumb-fox.jpg) Fox (EEVEE) | 66.5 s | 813.4 s | $0.33 | $0.83 |\n\nThose Superluminal times are 30-node runs, except Fox (EEVEE) at 10 nodes. Five nodes cost less again: $1.10 on Classroom against $4.37, and $0.14 on Fox (EEVEE) against $0.83.\n\nThe gap is widest on Fox, the EEVEE scene. RenderStreet took 813.4 seconds and never put more than 2 machines on it. Superluminal finished in 66.5. When each frame takes moments, most of your wait is the work around the frames.\n\n\n\n\n\n## You choose capacity, RenderStreet chooses it for you\n\nRenderStreet never asks how many machines you want. Its header showed 16 on Classroom, 22 on Junk Shop, 9 on Monster, and 2 on Fox (EEVEE). The job with the fewest machines took the longest.\n\nSuperluminal gives you the dial: 5, 10, or 30 nodes, rate visible before you commit. That is a price you can plan around instead of one you find out about.\n\n## Where RenderStreet is genuinely good\n\nIts browser workflow is clean, and the job page is more informative than most. The completed job listed each frame's duration and size with its own download. The running job built a playable sequence preview before the render finished. Only four of the nine services managed playback during a render.\n\nThe [interface comparison](/compare/render-farm-interfaces) scores every submission surface against the same recordings. RenderStreet places fifth there. Superluminal places first.\n\nIt also bills in exact dollars and shows the price accruing as the job runs.\n\n## Two products, one confusing name\n\nRenderStreet One is a $59.97 monthly subscription that renders on CPUs. We ran Classroom on it once: 12,022.4 seconds, 22.7 times longer than the same scene on On Demand GPU.\n\nA flat monthly fee cannot be split across one job honestly, so One sits outside the charts and scores and stays in the published data as its own result. The fee buys about 13.7 Classroom renders at the On Demand price. Run fourteen or more a month and the subscription pays for itself, if the far longer CPU wait is acceptable.\n\n## What travels with the job\n\nRenderStreet takes a `.blend` you upload through the browser and analyses it on the server. It does not trace dependencies before submission. A missing texture becomes a rendering problem instead of a warning before upload.\n\nThe Superluminal add-on [traces dependencies](/dependencies) inside Blender first, names anything missing, and sends the rest with the job, in parallel chunks instead of a single browser stream.\n\nDelivery differs too. RenderStreet packages a browser ZIP after the render, so its last file landed 25.0 to 60.3 seconds after completion. 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