Lumion Pricing (2026): Plans, Hardware and Cost per Render

Short answer: as of our check of lumion.com's own pricing page on 12 November 2026, the cheapest way into Lumion Pro is the named-user licence at $96/month, or $1,149 billed for a full year (about $95.75/month). A floating seat — usable by more than one person, one at a time — runs $125/month or $1,499/year. There is no published free tier; a free trial is offered but its length isn't stated on the pricing page, and purchases carry a 14-day refund window.

Lumion plans and prices, checked on lumion.com

Plan	Monthly	Annual	Notes
Pro (named-user)	$96/mo	$1,149/yr	One licence, tied to one person. Also listed at £75/mo (£899/yr) and €83/mo (€999/yr)
Pro Floating	$125/mo	$1,499/yr	One seat, shared by a team — whoever needs it checks it out. Also £87/mo (£1,049/yr) and €108/mo (€1,299/yr)
Custom	Contact sales	Contact sales	For 10+ users; "tailored pricing, terms, and setup" per the vendor page
3-year plan	—	"Save 20%" advertised	Discounted total not shown on the page we checked — confirm at checkout

Every figure above is checked on Lumion's pricing page, 12 November 2026. Third-party sites quote slightly different numbers (some older, some regional) — the vendor's own page is the one source we treated as ground truth, and we did not average or guess where it was unclear. Where that page didn't show a number — the 3-year discounted total, any education pricing — we say so below instead of filling in a guess.

How we priced this: every dollar, pound and euro figure in this guide was read directly off lumion.com/buy.html on 12 November 2026, the same day this page was written. We did not use third-party pricing trackers, resellers or cached snapshots as a source, because several we checked while researching this page disagreed with each other and with the vendor's current numbers — a sign that pricing pages change and older write-ups go stale. If Lumion changes its prices after this date, the numbers below will be out of date until we re-check them.

What the sticker price doesn't include

• A capable GPU. Lumion is a real-time rendering engine — the subscription buys the software, not the hardware it needs to run smoothly. Check Lumion's own system requirements page before buying if your workstation is more than a couple of years old; a mismatch here shows up as stutter and long preview times, not a line item.
• Ramp-up time. A real-time engine has a learning curve: materials, lighting rigs and camera paths are set up by hand before a scene looks finished. That time is real cost even though it never appears on an invoice, and it's paid every time a new employee picks up the tool.
• Per-seat scaling. A studio of five modelers on named-user licences is five separate line items at $96 (or $1,149/yr) each — floating seats only help if people genuinely take turns rather than working at the same time. Buy the wrong shape and you either pay for seats nobody is using, or people queue for the one floating licence during a deadline week.
• Plugins for other software. Lumion sells LiveSync connections into SketchUp, Revit, ArchiCAD and Rhino for a live link between your modelling tool and the Lumion viewport. The pricing page we checked didn't break out whether these are bundled with Pro or billed separately — confirm the current terms directly before assuming either way.

Named-user vs floating: which to buy

The honest version of this decision has nothing to do with headline price. A named-user licence is cheaper per seat and makes sense when the same person uses Lumion most days — a dedicated visualiser, a one-person studio. A floating seat costs more per month but is checked out and returned, so it fits a team where three or four people each touch Lumion a few times a week rather than daily: one floating seat at $125/month can cost less overall than two named-user seats at $96 each, and it avoids the awkward moment where the one person with a licence is on holiday during a deadline.

Cost per render: the real math

Lumion doesn't meter by image, so "cost per render" is whatever you divide the subscription by. On a named-user seat at $96/month: ship 40 images in a month and each one carries about $2.40 of licence cost; ship 10 and it's $9.60 each. A floating seat at $125/month shared across a slower, more occasional workload can come out cheaper per image than three separate named-user seats — the breakeven depends entirely on how many people actually need the tool on any given day, which is worth working out from your own calendar rather than a rule of thumb.

Is Lumion worth it for you?

If walkthroughs, live client-facing navigation, or a high volume of finished stills from fully modelled projects are the job, Lumion's real-time pipeline is built for exactly that, and the subscription is the right cost to carry. If the job is earlier than that — a rough massing model, a client who wants to see three material directions before anyone commits to a full scene, or a laptop with no serious GPU on a site visit — the Lumion subscription is being paid for before it's being used.

A lighter option for early-stage images

Archome AI is our product. We include it and say where other tools are the better choice: Lumion stays the right tool for walkthroughs, populated scenes and interactive client navigation, and nothing below replaces that. What Archome covers is the gap before a Lumion scene is worth building — a photo, a sketch, or a plain massing screenshot in, a photoreal still out in about 30 seconds, for 10 credits on the exterior tool (about $0.29 on the $29/month Lite plan, 1,000 credits). It runs in a browser with no GPU required, which makes it a reasonable way to test a direction before spending modelling time on it in Lumion.

FAQ

Is Lumion free? Not on a continuing basis. The pricing page we checked lists no free tier; it offers a free trial (length not stated on the page) and a 14-day refund after purchase.

Is there a student licence? The main pricing page we checked (12 Nov 2026) doesn't list one. Check lumion.com directly for current student or education terms before assuming a price.

Is Lumion billed monthly or annually? Both. Named-user runs $96/month or $1,149/year; Pro Floating runs $125/month or $1,499/year. A 3-year plan advertises a 20% saving, though the discounted total wasn't shown on the page we checked.

What's the difference between named-user and floating licences? A named-user seat is tied to one person. A floating seat is shared — whoever on the team needs it checks it out — at a higher monthly price than one named-user seat, but potentially cheaper than buying several.

Does the price include the GPU I need to run it? No. Lumion renders in real time on your own machine's graphics card, which is a separate cost from the subscription. Check Lumion's system requirements before buying if you're not sure your hardware qualifies.

Is Archome a replacement for Lumion? No — it's a faster way to get a photoreal still out of a sketch, photo or massing model before a scene is built in Lumion, not a real-time engine and not a walkthrough tool.

Why do the GBP and EUR prices look different from a simple dollar conversion? Because they are set separately on the vendor's own page rather than converted at checkout — $96/£75/€83 and $1,149/£899/€999 are the figures Lumion itself lists, not currency math we did ourselves.

Does Lumion's price change based on how many seats you buy? The pricing page lists per-seat Pro and Pro Floating rates with no visible volume discount below 10 users; above that, Lumion moves you to a Custom quote rather than a published per-seat number.

For the full head-to-head rather than price alone, see Lumion vs V-Ray and Lumion vs Twinmotion, or the feature-by-feature Lumion comparison page. Try the lighter option on your own file: 3 free renders, no card.