Which one suits you
- Jart
- Jewellers who want photoreal renders, client links and approvals from a CAD file, in the browser, with nothing to install.
- Blender
- Anyone who wants a free, complete 3D suite and is happy to build their own materials and studio.
- Rhino Render
- Rhino users who want to render inside Rhino at no extra cost.
- V-Ray for Rhino
- Render artists who want a production renderer inside Rhino.
- MatrixGold Render Studio
- MatrixGold users who want to stay inside their CAD program.
- iJewel3D
- Shops that want hosted 3D viewers, configurators and AR try-on on their website.
At a glance
| Tool | Where it runs | Rendering | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jart | In a current web browser, on a computer, tablet or phone. Nothing to install. | Path tracing on your own graphics card in the browser (WebGPU), with refraction and colour fire in stones; a fast Interactive view for setting up. 51 gemstones and 19 metals ready to use. | Free to start (exports up to 2,048 px with a small mark, no commercial use). Pro $29 a month or $290 a year: 8K exports, commercial use, client approval links. Unlimited renders on every plan. |
| Blender | Desktop install on Windows, macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux. Version 5.2 LTS at the time of checking. | Cycles, a path tracer, and EEVEE, a real-time engine. GPU rendering on NVIDIA (CUDA, OptiX), AMD (HIP), Intel (oneAPI) and Apple (Metal). Gem and metal materials, lighting and studio are built by you or with add-ons. | Free for any purpose, including commercial work (GNU GPL licence). |
| Rhino Render | Inside Rhino, a desktop install on Windows and macOS. | Path tracing on the CPU or on the GPU (CUDA, OptiX, OpenCL). Rhino 9 adds light that splits into colours in gems and more stock gem materials. | Included with Rhino: a new commercial licence is US$995, an upgrade US$595; perpetual, no maintenance fee. 90-day evaluation. |
| V-Ray for Rhino | Inside Rhino. For supported systems and Rhino versions, see their site. | A CPU engine and a GPU engine (NVIDIA CUDA and RTX, AMD HIP) that can also run on the CPU or both. | Subscription: V-Ray Solo US$540 a year, Premium US$778.80 a year. 30-day trial. |
| MatrixGold Render Studio | Inside MatrixGold and Rhino, a desktop install. | Photoreal images and animation frames inside the CAD program. For the engine, see their site. | Part of MatrixGold, listed at $5,995 with a Rhino licence on stuller.com. |
| iJewel3D | In the browser, with a Rhino plug-in and BatchX, a desktop app for Windows and macOS that renders batches on your own computer. | Real-time rendering in WebGL (three.js and threepipe), with refraction and dispersion simulated in diamonds, on computers and phones, according to their documentation. | Yearly plans: Free (up to 100 models), Premium $200, Startup $600, Professional $1,500 (up to 1,000 models, white label). Add-ons such as white-label AR try-on cost extra. |
When is Jart the right choice among these tools?
- Nothing to install. Open a 3DM, GLB, STL or OBJ in a browser, on a Mac, a PC or an iPad, and render it there.
- Your own graphics card, in the browser. Render path-traces on the computer you are using, so there is no render farm or upload, and no plan limits how many renders you make.
- Made for jewellery. Metals by alloy and stones by name, set from your object names by Auto assign, with refraction and colour fire in Render.
- Clients see the piece, not only pictures. Share links open in 3D with no account, and an approval link (Pro) lets a client approve a version by name.
- Facts and casting checks. Design Facts weighs the metal in each alloy, counts the stones with their carat and reads the ring size; the cast check (Pro) looks at wall thickness, prongs and seats.
- A record from approval to the shop. An approval keeps a SHA-256 fingerprint of the exact files; the caster pack carries the metal STL, the facts and a fingerprint of every file; a Piece Passport page records the finished piece; Copy for Shopify puts the facts on a product page (Pro).
- An API and MCP server. Scripts and AI assistants measure a file's metal weight, stones, ring size and cast check, and check whether it is the version a client approved (Developers, Pro).
Sources
Read on each vendor's own site Blender on 8 November 2026, Rhino Render on 8 November 2026, V-Ray for Rhino on 8 November 2026, MatrixGold Render Studio on 8 November 2026, iJewel3D on 9 November 2026. Prices change and may differ by country or exclude tax: check their site before you buy. Jart's figures are from our pricing page.
- Blender licence
- Blender download
- Blender rendering
- Rhino buy page
- Rhino 7: Rhino Render uses Cycles
- Rhino 9 Rhino Render options
- What is new in Rhino 9
- Chaos V-Ray buy online
- V-Ray for Rhino
- V-Ray for Rhino GPU rendering
- MatrixGold on stuller.com
- What is iJewel3D
- iJewel3D products
- iJewel3D pricing
- iJewel3D ring configurator
- iJewel3D Rhino plug-in