"File → Send to ZER0ONE Lab" for Blender 4.2+. Push your current .blend to a GPU cloud, pay per rendered frame, get results back into Blender's render slots automatically. Runs on the ZER0ONE Lab Cinema Render cloud farm.
Skip the "how do I set up SSH keys" dance. Save file, click one menu item, wait for the notification.
- Download the latest
zer0one-lab-addon.zipfrom Releases. - In Blender:
Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install…→ pick the zip. - Enable ZER0ONE Lab Cinema Render in the list.
- In the add-on preferences panel: paste your API key from app.zer0onelab.com/account/api-keys.
- File → Send to ZER0ONE Lab → Render Job — packs the current scene, uploads, queues.
- File → Send to ZER0ONE Lab → Open in Workstation — opens the same scene in our web-based Cloud Workstation (a full VSCode + Blender GUI running on a GPU pod, streamed to your browser).
Rendered frames come back into Blender's Render Result slots automatically. Cost per frame is shown in the status bar as it accumulates.
The A4000 tier renders a 240-frame 1080p Cycles turntable in about 3 min for US$0.014. That's less than a coffee for a full turntable that would take 25 minutes on a MacBook Pro M3 without a fan reboot.
Read the full cost breakdown: The cheapest GPU for Blender renders isn't the fastest — A4000 in a cost-per-frame benchmark.
- Native Blender 4.2 + 4.3 support (tested on Cycles and Eevee-Next)
- Automatic texture-pack packing — sends the whole texture prefix, resolves relative paths
- OptiX AI-Denoise toggle
- HDRI library browser (128 PolyHaven CC0 HDRIs, mountable read-only in the job)
- Multi-GPU frame-split (Pro-tier accounts, up to 4× parallel)
- Budget cap: job self-denies if the estimate exceeds the cap
- EU-jurisdiction storage (R2 EU-Central)
- Blender ≥ 4.2
- ZER0ONE account with API key (get one at zer0onelab.com)
- Command-line? Use zer0one-cli — same backend, no add-on install needed.
- CI/CD pipeline? The CLI's
--json-outputflag returns machine-readable status.
Built by Michael Jajagin at ZER0ONE — a senior engineering studio and cloud render farm based in Bogojevo, Serbia. MIT-licensed. Bugs: open an issue.
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