I paid a stranger $300 to render my project! 

The $15 dollar guy did some really good job. Didn't expect that much.

The first work was the cheapest, but you could feel that the artist delivered a final work with a lot of love.

The 4th one is the most realistic one because of the lockdown.

$70 for a single render, I'm so jealous. Here in the Philippines they pay us $10 and they say it's overpriced.

I kinda expected the $300 one to be better. It was still an 8/10 but I still felt like it was lacking something. The $15 and $50 ones take the cake especially considering the price

As an Architect I wish I had someone like this guy as a mentor during my days as a student. What a cool guy

I dislike this cause the 15$ render was miles ahead of the others. And the person barely made 2 lunch with it. The economy is so messed up. Of course an interesting video, just feel bad for my 15 bucks dude

The 50 bucks one is the best so far

I was very underwhelmed by all the renders, the cheaper ones give you a lot of value for what you pay, but still... idk, I wouldn't be too pleased with the raw result. The outstanding thing and I MEAN IT, it's your English, man you speak real smooth

No wonder it's getting harder and harder to make a decent living doing freelance work since these prices are bringing down the value of good images. Clients will accept "good enough" quality because the are cheap. So if an artist wants to make a good living they'll have to work for a reputable rendering house or as a in-house vis person at arch firm.

Well, 300 USD dollar image is undoubtedly the most realistic image, nice texturing and non Lumion-Ish, but the 15/ 50 dollar images shows the actual project at it´s full potential. So what are we really looking for? Nice looking single image or decent looking multiple images showing what really matters?

I am working in architecture visualization, it is really sad that such hard work are under real price, for such project render the last price should not be under 500 $ . architecture visualization are not easy process, you need to learn 5 or 6 applications then you need to learn about modeling, lighting, texturing, rendering, shading with all plug-ins and techniques, photoshop architecture process, design principles, architecture principles, learning new architecture desires and updates, brainstorming all day . architecture visualization is a continues learning and practicing so it is a hard work field, if you don't get good price you are wasting your effort and hard work .

I’ll go for the USD 300 as the amount of work, the back and forth to get your feedback on the direction of the work and implementing what your preferences were, and then coming out with the final render with the detailed work put into it was a definite winner for me. Happy to pay that much for this.

The most awaited video of the year 👀

50$ one is the best for the value. I’m also an Architectural 3D artist in Fiverr. I also feels with my experiences most of Customers don’t know the value of realistic textures and the quality of the rendering.

Tony: "This bad boy will fit so many houses"

I’d have to say the 15$ render gave the most for value…then maybe seconded by the 50$ render. You were just being nice about the renders of the third and forth person. Seeing this really made me ask myself why I’m not on fiver already

This is a really good video!! And some really good renders, overall ! Really liked the efforts put in by Stefano in his 15$ render....! Quick-cheap-aesthetic !

I like the $50 one and the guy who did good at vegetations. $99 guy literally just pasted the file and hit render. $300 good textures yes, lighting on human models is unrealistic but good thing is he let you pick the scene you prefer.

We can't spent that money to test. This is good content. thank a lot

I like when you say "investing the time" that tells me a lot that the time is the thing on this

please do this type of video more often 💚

9:37 sun in the sky and the light in the environment are coming from two totally different directions...

People saying that 300 is expensive or even 70 is fine make me so sad. Nowadays artists don't appreciate their own time.

In my state we give them more quality then 300 bucks and still get paid around 50 bucks and they also don't value our work so i quit many studios and now they suffering from not getting realistic render in the same price ..... So my point is find the place where your work get appreciated happy to see this

in egypt they offer 10$ for a single render, which is a reasonable price for that country 😜

Charging the lower price point when you are a student or starting out is ok. The $50 render is the best as you had options. Providing several renders is ok in Lumion as it's so easy to do. Once you get confidence in your art then you should be charging $150-$300 per day. If you reach god-tier then you can charge whatever you like :)

Can you share your 3d model with your audience? I would like to do a rendering too, you can then judge those renders too? What do you say?

Most of these prices are less than what you will pay hourly for archviz. These prices are quite ridiculous, this is (thankfully) reflected in the quality. They don't really come close to professionally done archviz. Which is not that weird because the cost of software, assets and models alone would is more expensive than the final image.

The third one was the best , 4&5 feel soulless in a corporate kind of way

9:35 for price-performance, I would take this one. The shadows could be more bright, but that´s a kind of personel flavor. Well Done!

I dont know man, the 300$ image looks like smt a second year arch student would make. Most of these renders aren’t worth their price

yay soon we can all be working for a cup of rice thanks to fivver

I thought about working on Fiverr as a freelance visualizer aswell, but there’s no way I could compete with these prices - 50$ for a rendering?! I guess most of these guys are either students or from countries with overall low salaries. I could barely work for an hour for this amount without being underpaid.

Wow!! I am amazed by the amount of polemic this video is getting haha, I like that there is an active conversation on this comment section, but since it is a bit hard to respond to each one, I am going to give my thoughts here: *1. Is Fiver going to end the arch-viz industry?* No, it never will. The industry is filled with high-quality artists and companies that have a huge set of clients willing to pay a lot of money for their work. What a professional arch viz artist provides is customer service, quality images, experience, artistry, among so many other things. These characteristics are invaluable and just like the mass consumption of the camera for everyone to access and everyone can be a "photographer" did NOT end or devalue the careers of many professional photographers, these platforms are not going to end the arch viz industry. *2. Prices are too low for a render* Yes, as mentioned in the video, all of the prices, even the 300 USD ones, are really low. How does someone survive with a 15 USD render? Well, I think the situation is a bit more complex to grasp from some places than others. Fiverr is a platform for freelancers, some take it as a side hustle and some as a full-time job. For some of these freelancers, 15 USD is money they can help pay their bills with. The minimum wage in third-world countries is around (unfortunately) 300 USD. So the money they gain from Fiverr can actually help them more than the jobs for an architect in their country. If you are somehow angry that these 15-300 USD freelancers are taking your clients, maybe you are looking at it from another perspective. Think of it more like this, you necessarily don't want to have the clients that are looking for a 15-300 USD render, because these clients are looking for fast and relatively low-cost work (which is not bad either). Or these are clients that come from low budget projects or a country where it is unimaginable to pay more than 100 USD per render. So, if you charge more than 2k per render good! These people are not stealing your clients, and if you can make a fiver account and get clients that can pay 2-5k per render then congrats, that is possible as well in the platform. *3. Prices are too high for a render* haha just like there are people complaining about the low prices, there are some amazed at how I was able to waste 300 USD for a render and that they would do an even better image for a CHEAPER price. So as you can see, we have the full spectrum of architects here!! haha. But, first of all, as I already mentioned, these prices are very low, 15 USD is really low for a render and 300 USD is also really low for a render. Second, this video was made with the help of fiverr, so the guys over there gave me a chance to test out different price points just to see how it would work. I know that many of you can produce better images than these, I know that for many of you, this may be expensive for a render, but understand that each freelancer is in a different economical situation than you, also understand that for some this is their jobs. If maybe I spent a bit more time I can come up with a better image, if they spent more time they can create a better one, but try to understand where they come from, and their needs. *Conclusion* Architects have to value their work more, yes. Architects need to charge more, yes! But we also need a bit of empathy and knowledge of the economic conditions by which we live. As an architect I would love to charge 4x more than what a normal client will pay me for design work here in Colombia, but I know that the market that I am in right now doesn't allow it, or I would literally never have clients if I priced my work. That is perhaps also the reason I am working via social media, but that story is for another day haha.... I appreciate so much the discussion, I hope it continues! But let's try to place ourselves in shoes that are different from ours. Cheers! Steven

The cheaper dude used a pirated version of Lumion that cost 0 to him and he rendered it in 30 seconds. The second dude took 4 hours to render the image in a paid version of VRAY. That explains the difference in prices.

Obviously the 300$ has a lot of improvements and work, and it seems more "realistic", but WOW, the 15$ image??? I would need at least 5 hours to do that. I can't do all this work in 30-40 minutes to have a good $/hour ratio!!!

I would recommend having renders done for you by freelancers. I wouldn't classify this as cheating or anything like that because sometimes the laptop isnt equipped to install heavy software like Lumion etc. Its not cheating if you've put in the work to having the building and site constructed on 3D modelling software

Now I want the file to do my own rendering. I'm an absolute fan of Blender and I think I can put a good competition in here. For free.

I believe the 50$ one was worth it

in my country its really hard to stay competitive in prices, you pretty much get the quality of the 300$ for 50$, i sometimes charge 20-25$ bucks for a 100$-300$ job just because the clients rather pay for an ugly but cheap render than a hight quality and realistic render Excelent comparason video BTW

Wow, I would not even start for anything less than 300 on a project like this. What are these folks thinking? They completely devalue the amount of work that is required for a good render artist.

I know this video was sponsored by Fiver so it all had to be positive, but Jesus Christ its stuff like this that seriously messes up the professional field of architectural visualization. For real. I own a render studio and I regularly get confused clients that show me renderings they previously got that look like garbage but wonder my prices aren't pennies an hour. Now I know where they get these crazy ideas. I mean think about it. If you do the math, the guy that charged $15 bucks for 3 renderings finished in 2 days (18 business hours) basically got paid 83 cents an hour! This is giving clients a false sense of value to our craft whether they realize it or not. You're not ordering a #1 from McDonalds extra fry with a limited time coupon, but this shit brings it down for potential clients to exactly that. Anyways end of rant, nothing against the video itself lol.

50 bucks one is really good. But 300 bucks one is the real pro render.

tbh 300 for that final render is dirt cheap for an actual company that would use this for construction concepts

Thanks again! Greatings from Stefano! :D

it seems like archviz industry is going in the "race for the cheapest" direction

as a 3d artist myself, I honestly didn't like any of them, In terms of Money the first one was the best one,

to be honest this feels insulting. The prices are are extremely low and not justifiable by the lower cost of living in some countries. We have pretty much pay the same prices in hardware, software licenses, assets etc so even if you take account the huge difference in living costs you would still need to charge more...unless of course you are using only pirated software and assets or exclusively CC0 stuff, which to be honest I highly doubt.

Wow! I love this... Their works aren't bad though but i believe there are lots of artists out there that can provide better images but aren't given the opportunity because of our Nationality. Nice one Steven👍

My favourite was the 50$ no. 2, the lighting and interior additions were great. But the 300$ was OK and would of been better if they didn't mess up the few people in the background.

I think the 50 dollar one is quite interesting, because the thumbnail you are using is that 😁

This proves that some people over exploit and some just accepts getting underpaid. The Cheap ones were the best. The more the price went up the worse it got.

What do you mean by "Lumion-ish" is it a bad software?

15usd is the best quality/price, it is a completely steal to be paid 15usd for those renders. The 50usd is also underpriced. I would glady pay 100usd to any of those guys to give them more time to tweak them a little more or add some more details to them, and it will be still a good price.

Honestly , none of them except for the 15 dollar one was worth it. 300 dollars were absolutely not!

For real if that's a 300$ render I guess I should get paid 1k 😂. I'd love to make this scene & send you the results just for the memes haha

That last one also showed a much better approach of working with project. First select shots, simply in lcay renders. Then you can negotiate colors and style. Looks really nice

$300 for a render that is insane. I charge $1000.

$ 300 for that!!? OMG!! I am Uruguayan, I have been a renderer for 5 years now and I make renderings of much higher quality than that, the maximum I can charge and in fact I have charged was 80 dollars ... It is unfortunate how poorly paid we are here, being that in other countries they charge 4 times more for lower quality work.

It would be cool see one for plans/ sections / diagrams too

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I'm confused. Did you send these artists the 3d model and they "just" populated, textured, etc via whatever render software they had? Or did they model everything from a design plan set?

In New Zealand we charge $1,500 per image.

Hola! hace un tiempo veo tus videos y hasta que dijiste no sabia que eras de Bogotá !! en fin, yo he trabajado para algunas empresas reconocidas en rendering y visualización en Bogotá y me interesaria conocer mas paginas como Fiverr, solo conocia la de Freelancer pero era muy complicada en mi opinion. Gracias excelentes videos!!!

Dude,I am always interested in Books and your bookshelf seems quite enticing.Do a review of some architectural jewels you have in you library behind you or you could just list all of them in the description.Thanks,I enjoyed the video.

300 $ is huge for this single render, even one of the cut out figure lighting didn't match. in this price one night view can also be added. with three day view.

I guess the 300 bucks one has used 3d max or cinema 4d? The textures and lights are so soft and comfortable.

Loved the 80$ tier ( good composition ) ....and the 300$ has a nice mood too. 👍 You talked briefly about some Archiviz studios .. Would LOVE a video on it man !

50 dollar second man ... is the best!

$ 86 for fiverr not counting 20% of tips, excellent

15 was great for the price, really nice and got the building overall, The 50 Usd was just inconsistent with the images but it was worth the money, the 80 added unnecessary buildings to the project as you said and composition is boring, 100 unfinished and 300 is a joke for that single image and its good but its not worth 300

I do rendering and I charge AU$300 for the project if a model is provided. The $50 render to me looks like the most effort was put in in terms of setup, but the lighting and texturing was really poorly done. For instance, the grass steps has grass on the rise, but should be a structural material. But the vegetation was very nicely setup. The last one was by far the best one and is what I would expect from a properly done architectural render. However, only one render? With my projects, I'll provide multiple perspectives until the client is happy, and will only charge extra if there are any major changes to the model.

the 100usd was a scam, really really poor for that price....

At first glance at your preview I thought it’s a Minecraft project 😂

I live in the UK. I do a lot of Arch-Viz as a freelancer. All my work involves making 3d models from scratch or editing someone else's models (which are always badly modelled and a pain in the ass), applying my own textures and setting up the scenes for Rendering. My rate is around £35/hr. Would you say that's too competitive or too expensive?

Arent the mid priced ones very underpaid? I could imagine it taking hours to make it and they charge 50 dollars?

Lumionish… is lumion not good? I’ve been trying to learn how to render and have been using lumion and enscape. Should I be using something else?

As a 3D Artist, I would prefer the $50 & $300

Excelente video, yo soy arquitecto y hago unos renders espectaculares también, modestia aparte, buena esa comparación calidad precio, lo que mas me llama la atención es como aprendiste diste a hablar tan buen inglés, gracias

I like the 4th one most tho, maybe it's the lighting in it, or the perspective, I dont know what it is. I understand it could use a bit more on the composition, cause there were no furniture or entourage

Hi man ! I really like your video, thank you. As a reply to your question, my favorite render pics are the very first and very last ones. I've just started to do some architectural rendering as a freelance and I was wondering if I can try to render this same project (for free of course) and then you can give your opinion on it ? Thanks in advance ;)

Hey man. I really love and enjoyed your video. This is proof that not all good quality stuff come at greater prices. I do prefer the 2nd Renderer ($50), it does really show good potential but the good thing about the 5th Renderer ($300) is that she goes out of the box and even proposed something better in that scene which is interesting. I am also in the design and rendering field. I hope I can join in on one of these someday. Stay awesome!

*together let's Show It Better" please 🥺 This is an intresting video 👍🏼🎉

How about people like me who just started this type of gigs? How can we gain clients when other competitor has been already feature in the search bar or recommend gig

How can they offer renders for $15 and showcse images from a couple hundered? I mean that must be Lumion right?

It's a very clarifying video, but the Fiverr market it's not compatible with a professional environment, the 15 $ option it's a good option for the money. The 300 $ option it's proportional for the quantity of hours inverted in the solution. I'm renderer and I make acceptable solution with Artlantis,

The last one looks best.

How, more importantly why, do people do this for so cheap?

the last one is descent! but the people needs matching more from saturation to shadows to just be more integrated in the whole 3d mood , they just look like png's , he could've added maybe some motion blurr effect ! and i think he's the only one rendered on either corona or v-ray , the rest are lumion ! but really lumion can deliver much more then that ! werid tho !

The $50 one(u like) is really good, I think that image u like can paid $30 more as bonus for this artist.

Nothing beats the value of 15$ but it was interesting to see that adding the round bench and tree in the courtyard really improved the space and there was some maturity in the sophistication of the textures, however it could be accused of being architect style in the sense that the materials don't resemble specific real materials and it's a bit overexposed.

The 80 dollars one has the same girl with the red hair twice in the image. One walking with the group on top of the stairs and then sitting in the middle of the stairs 😂

it is wrong to think in the "best bang for the buck" paradigm when is coming for an architectural render - point is to choose the right skills in mastering a rendering software relative to your needs - otherwise, anyone can press the render button, so all that being said, It looks like you choose the wrong freelancer for any price category, any of them have no prior experience in using the render software they own or no desire to learn

What would be the price for a render if ShowItBetter is on fiverr?

In this days people don’t respect themselves. $15 that price is sending a message =my work is garbage. Respect your self

D PDF s are d best... Along with their texturing style seen in the chosen view.....

For 150 bucks I made 30 renders and 2 videos, I know the quality of my work is not good enough but I’m still learning. The 2nd one is the best for me

i'd love to have a go at that render and have some of you folks tell me how much they'd pay for it...

50 usd second image looked good