Lumion · Cloud workstation
Run Lumion on a GPU workstation.
Nothing to buy.
From $1.49an hour, no GST, billed per minute
First top-up $20 = 8 hours on the RTX 5080.
Recommended for Lumion: RTX A4000, 16 GB VRAM
No account until you press Start. Other GPUs
A Lumion workstation in the cloud. Lumion needs a strong GPU: run your own Lumion licence on a workstation-class RTX GPU while your laptop stays free.
You reach it through the Coreframe Connect app, streamed at 4K at 60 fps. It isn’t a remote desktop, and there’s no render queue to submit a file to and wait on.
By the Coreframe Cloud team · Updated
Lumion runs here. You see it there.
Why this card for Lumion.
VRAM is the ceiling
Geometry, textures and vegetation all have to fit on the card. Coreframe workstations carry 16 to 48 GB of VRAM. Many laptops and entry desktops sold for design work have 6 to 8 GB, and that's what forces you to cut a scene down.
A display driver, not compute-only
Lumion needs a WDDM display driver. Every card here runs one, so Lumion starts as it does on a desktop. It refuses to start on a datacentre card with a compute-only driver.
Files stay in India
The node is in a Tier III data centre in India and project storage is in India too. Nothing leaves the country, and that's usually the first thing NDA clients ask about.
What our customers say
As a freelancer I can't justify a workstation that sits idle between projects. When a Twinmotion job comes in, I open an RTX 5080 on Coreframe and stop paying the moment I close it. My files wait on my Coreframe drive, so I pick up right where I left off.
Dinesh
Freelance visualiser · Twinmotion
Blender and After Effects all day, often for two clients at once. On Coreframe, 64 GB of RAM keeps long After Effects comps smooth, and Blender renders finish far sooner than on my laptop. It costs more than a basic cloud VM, but a basic VM can't run this.
Sai
Motion designer · Blender & After Effects
I test heavy Unreal levels and walk scenes in Twinmotion. The 16 GB card on Coreframe loads what my own machine couldn't, and it streams to my laptop in 4K.
Avi
Game tester · Unreal Engine & Twinmotion
Before Coreframe I did all of this on an RTX 3060 at home, cutting textures down just to make big projects fit. Now I open an RTX 5080 when a test pass needs it, and per-minute billing means short sessions cost what they should.
Srini
Game developer & tester
I'm based in Singapore and paid with my international card: no paperwork, just an email and a mobile number. On Coreframe I build comps in After Effects and run my FFmpeg batch encodes on the same machine, then pull the finished files down. One proper Windows workstation for the whole job.
Jin
Video editor · After Effects & FFmpeg, Singapore
Lumion: what’s installed, what you bring.
Already installed
- D5 Render
- Twinmotion
Bring your own licence
- Lumion
Lumion is not preinstalled: install it and activate your own named-user or floating seat. Each session starts from a clean machine, so software you install is removed when it ends, unless you choose a persistent workstation (available on selected GPUs), which keeps your own Windows disk between sessions. Everything on the machine.
The GPU we recommend for Lumion
RTX A4000, 16 GB VRAM
Lumion needs a WDDM display card with enough VRAM for vegetation and textures; 16 GB is the floor we offer.
Pick a GPU for Lumion.
One price per GPU-hour, in US dollars. The recommended card is picked; tap another to change it.
RTX A4000 chosen. You sign up when you press Start: your email and a WhatsApp code. You pay before any GPU time, then download Connect.
The machine.
| Disk | 1 TB NVMe |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 11 / Windows Server |
| Access | Coreframe Connect app, streamed at 4K at 60 fps |
| Display driver | WDDM, which Lumion requires |
| Location | Tier III data centre, India |
| Coreframe workstations | 16 to 48 GB |
|---|---|
| Many laptops and entry desktops sold for design work | 6 to 8 GB |
Each node has one GPU and one customer at a time. We don’t publish render times because they depend on your scene and your settings. Open your heaviest project on it and see for yourself.
What it costs.
No commitment. Billed per minute from when you connect, not per whole hour. Preparing the workstation and uploads are free. If you don't connect within 10 minutes of your workstation being ready, it shuts down and those 10 minutes are charged. If a connection fails on our side, nothing is charged. 50 GB of persistent storage included, kept while your account is active. Session scratch is cleared when the session ends.
Cheaper per hour than ad-hoc at every tier, from $70.99/month. Persistent project storage and named seats for your studio. Extra NAS storage $15.99/TB/month.
See plans →The Lumion licence is yours to bring. Named-user and floating seats both work. Install Lumion, activate your seat and start. Prices in US dollars carry no GST (export of services), and the invoice is in US dollars.
Questions.
Does Lumion work on a cloud GPU?
Yes, on a card with a WDDM display driver. That rules out the compute-only datacentre cards most GPU rentals hand you, because Lumion won't start on them. A Coreframe workstation is a Windows machine (Windows 11 or Windows Server) with a dedicated NVIDIA RTX GPU and the full WDDM driver, so Lumion installs and runs the way it does on a desktop under your table. You reach the machine through the Coreframe Connect app, streamed to you at 4K at 60 fps.
What is in the workstation?
Your choice of GPU from the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB to the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB, with 16 to 48 GB of VRAM, 64 to 128 GB of RAM and 16 vCPU, with 1 TB NVMe, running Windows 11 or Windows Server in a Tier III data centre in India. The GPUs on offer and their prices are on the pricing page. One customer per node. Nobody shares the card, and it isn't sliced into a virtual GPU.
Do I need my own Lumion licence?
Yes, Lumion is bring your own licence. Install Lumion on the workstation and activate your existing named-user or floating seat. Coreframe only charges for the machine.
How much does a Lumion cloud GPU cost?
Ad-hoc sessions are $1.49 per GPU-hour, billed per minute from when you connect, not per whole hour. Preparing the workstation and uploads are free. If you don't connect within 10 minutes of your workstation being ready, it shuts down and those 10 minutes are charged. If a connection fails on our side, nothing is charged. Committed monthly plans start at $70.99/month and bill extra hours below the ad-hoc rate at every tier: $1.99/hr on Small Team, $0.99/hr on Medium Team. Prices in US dollars carry no GST (export of services), and the invoice is in US dollars.
What GPU do I need for Lumion?
For Lumion we recommend the RTX A4000 with 16 GB of VRAM. Lumion needs a WDDM display card with enough VRAM for vegetation and textures; 16 GB is the floor we offer. Every card on the price list runs it; you pick the card when you start.
No account until you press Start. New to it? How a session works.