RTX A4000 to RTX 6000 Ada from $1.49/hourFirst top-up $20 = 8 h on RTX 5080 or about 18 h on RTX A4000No paperwork just your email and mobile numberInternational cards acceptedBilled by the minute for the minutes you useGet started →
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AutoCAD Cloud Workstation — AutoCAD on a rented Windows PC

From $1.49an hour, no GST, billed per minute

First top-up $20 = 8 hours on the RTX 5080.

Recommended for AutoCAD: RTX A4000, 16 GB VRAM

No account until you press Start. Other GPUs

AutoCAD needs Windows and a capable machine, not necessarily one you own. A Coreframe workstation is a full Windows desktop with a workstation-class GPU, streamed to the laptop you already have, billed by the minute. Install AutoCAD from your own Autodesk account and work as you would at your desk.

By the Coreframe Cloud team · Updated

Why rent a GPU for this.

Full desktop AutoCAD with its add-ins, not a browser viewer.
The same machine renders: Twinmotion and D5 Render are already installed.
Drawings stay on your project drive between sessions.
Pay by the minute for the weeks you need it.

Your laptop, our workstation

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Files wait on your drive

Your files go up to your project drive once and wait there between sessionsProject drivescene.blendtextures/client-v3.d5a

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

AutoCAD: what’s installed, what you bring.

Already installed

  • D5 Render
  • Twinmotion

Bring your own licence

  • Autodesk AutoCAD

Install AutoCAD from your own Autodesk account; Coreframe never supplies the Autodesk licence. 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 AutoCAD

RTX A4000, 16 GB VRAM

AutoCAD runs mostly on the CPU; the entry card is all a 2D or 3D drawing needs.

What AutoCAD costs per hour here.

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.

Blender, Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and D5 Render are preinstalled. Commercial software runs on your own licence.

How to sign out of common apps

You sign in to AutoCAD with your own licence; the price is for the machine. 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. Full pricing.

How AutoCAD runs here: measured, not quoted.

We publish only figures we have measured on our own workstation, and we have not published AutoCAD timings yet. Each row says so. Ask and we will run your scene, or a reference one, and send the numbers.

AutoCAD on a Coreframe workstation: measured figures and what has not been measured yet
What was measuredResult
Time to open a large DWG from the project driveMeasured on request
Workstation ready after Launch (sign-in to desktop)Measured on request

Want a number before you top up? Ask for a measured run. We will tell you the GPU, the scene and the settings with every figure.

Licensing. You install it and sign in with your own licence, exactly as you would on a new PC. We don't supply licences for commercial software, because the licence belongs to you and not to the machine. Install AutoCAD from your own Autodesk account at manage.autodesk.com, which is what ties the install to your seat.

See what is preinstalled →

Questions.

Can I run AutoCAD on a cloud workstation?

Yes. A Coreframe workstation is a full Windows desktop (Windows 11 or Windows Server), so the Windows version of AutoCAD installs and runs as it does on a local PC. You install it from your own Autodesk account and reach the desktop through the Coreframe Connect app.

Can I run AutoCAD on a low-end laptop?

Yes. AutoCAD runs on the workstation, and your laptop only shows the stream through the Coreframe Connect app for Windows, so a modest laptop with a steady connection is enough.

Does Coreframe provide an AutoCAD licence?

No. Autodesk licences are issued to a named user, so you sign in with your own. Coreframe supplies the machine, never the licence.

Do I need a GPU for AutoCAD?

Not much of one. AutoCAD runs mostly on the CPU, so the entry card on the price list is enough. A bigger GPU only matters if you render the model in Twinmotion or D5 on the same machine.

Can I check a DWG without AutoCAD?

Yes. Our free DWG checker reads dimensions from a drawing in the browser, with no AutoCAD seat and no sign-up.

How much does a Coreframe workstation 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.

Are prices the same worldwide?

Each billing country has one price list. Accounts billed outside India pay in US dollars, from $1.49 an hour with no GST (export of services), billed per minute. Accounts billed in India pay a rupee price list with GST included. The workstations are the same everywhere, hosted in a Tier III data centre in India.

Is there an offer for new customers?

Yes. Your first top-up of $20 (no GST) buys 8 hours on an RTX 5080 (or about 18 hours on the RTX A4000, 12 on the RTX A5000), to use within 30 days, one per customer. You sign up with an email and a WhatsApp code to your mobile, with no ID documents, and international cards work. We won't say what you can finish in that time, because it depends entirely on your scene.

No account until you press Start. New to it? How a session works.

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