Send Blender renders from your terminal to a GPU cloud, pay per rendered frame, download when done. ZER0ONE CLI is the command-line interface for ZER0ONE Lab Cinema Render — the cloud render farm built by ZER0ONE Studio in Bogojevo, Serbia.
No SSH, no Docker, no cluster to babysit. Point at a
.blend, get a job ID, get a download link.
npm install -g @zer0one/lab-cli
zer0one login # paste your API key from https://app.zer0onelab.com/account/api-keys# Render frames 1-100 on the cheapest GPU tier (RTX A4000)
zer0one render scene.blend --frames 1-100 --gpu a4000 --output ./out/
# Force a faster tier when the deadline is tighter than the budget
zer0one render scene.blend --frames 1-100 --gpu 4090
# Watch jobs, check balance, pull logs
zer0one ls
zer0one balance
zer0one logs <job-id>| Tier | GPU | US$/hour | Typical Blender workload |
|---|---|---|---|
a4000 |
RTX A4000 (16 GB) | 0.25 | Default — 1080p Cycles under 12 GB VRAM |
4090 |
RTX 4090 (24 GB) | 1.10 | 4K, character animation, sub-D-heavy meshes |
a6000 |
RTX A6000 (48 GB) | 1.80 | 8K environments, geo-cache-heavy VFX |
h100 |
H100 SXM5 (80 GB) | 4.50 | ML pipeline, LLM fine-tuning (rarely needed for Blender) |
The A4000 is our default because it's the cost-optimum for most Blender jobs — 5× cheaper per frame than an H100, only 4.8× slower.
- Native Blender 4.2 + Cycles OptiX — no version dance.
- Multi-GPU frame-splitting for Pro-tier accounts: 4 GPUs in parallel = ~4× wall-clock speedup.
- Automatic texture-pack unpacking — if the .blend references relative textures, we pull the whole prefix.
- Deterministic cost estimate before spawn — job denies itself if the estimate exceeds your budget.
- HDRI + PolyHaven CC0 asset library mounted at
/assets/hdri/on the pod. - OptiX AI-Denoise toggle — cinematic quality with fewer samples.
- Instant download URLs via presigned R2 (EU jurisdiction).
Prefer clicking to typing? The ZER0ONE Blender Add-on adds a File → Send to ZER0ONE Lab menu that uses the same CLI under the hood.
- Cinema Render Landing
- Blender Add-on Repo
- ZER0ONE Studio (Engineering)
- Cost-Optimum for Blender Renders — Deep-Dive
Built by Michael Jajagin at ZER0ONE — a senior engineering studio and cloud render farm based in Bogojevo, Serbia. The CLI is MIT-licensed. Bugs and feature requests: open an issue.
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