Grasshopper comes with Rhino 8.
Grasshopper ships with Rhino 8, so there is nothing extra to license or buy from us: once Rhino is on the workstation under your own licence key, type Grasshopper at the command line and it opens, the same as at your desk. Coreframe supplies the machine, never the Rhino licence.
What Rhino costs per hour here.
One price per GPU-hour, in US dollars; you pick the GPU when you launch. You sign in to Rhino with your own licence; the price is for the machine.
NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GBEntryIntro hours apply
- Ampere
- 6,144 CUDA cores
- 16 GB VRAM
- 16 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
$1.49
per GPU-hour, no GST
NVIDIA RTX A5000 24 GBMore memoryIntro hours apply
- Ampere
- 8,192 CUDA cores
- 24 GB VRAM
- 16 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
$2.29
per GPU-hour, no GST
RTX 5080Fast renderingIntro hours apply
- Blackwell
- 10,752 CUDA cores
- 16 GB VRAM
- 16 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
$3.49
per GPU-hour, no GST
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48 GBBig scenes
- Ada
- 18,176 CUDA cores
- 48 GB VRAM
- 16 vCPU
- 128 GB RAM
$5.29
per GPU-hour, no GST
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 Rhino runs here: measured, not quoted.
We publish only figures we have measured on our own workstation, and we have not published Rhino timings yet. Each row says so. Ask and we will run your scene, or a reference one, and send the numbers.
| What was measured | Result |
|---|---|
| Time to open a mid-size Rhino model with a Grasshopper definition | Measured on request |
| Enscape or Twinmotion live link from Rhino: time to first frame | Measured 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.
The details.
Running Grasshopper definitions on the workstation.
Grasshopper solves a definition on the CPU, so a heavy one works with the workstation's CPU and RAM. The GPU draws the Rhino viewport and runs the renderer you attach, such as V-Ray or Enscape, in the same session.
Keep your .gh definitions and the files they read in your project folder on persistent storage, so they are there the next time you launch.
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. Rhino uses your own licence key.
See what is preinstalled →Questions.
Is Grasshopper included?
Grasshopper ships with Rhino 8, so it comes with your own Rhino licence: there is nothing extra to buy from us or to install separately. Coreframe supplies the workstation, not the Rhino licence.
Can I run Rhino and Grasshopper on a cloud workstation?
Yes. It is a standard Windows desktop, and Rhino, Grasshopper and plugins run normally with your own licence. We set them up with you once, so you aren't reinstalling them every session.
Do my Rhino files persist between sessions?
Every session starts from an identical clean machine, so anything you install during a session is removed when it ends. Your project files live on NAS storage, which persists between sessions. That reset is how we make sure nothing from another customer's work, or yours, is left on the machine. It matters when a project is under NDA.
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.
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.
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