Lumion 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Lumion

4.7

(157)

Pricing

Starting at €199.00 per year

About Lumion

Built for architects and designers, Lumion’s real-time rendering solutions fit seamlessly into your workflow, letting you visualize your designs quickly and accurately—from initial concept to completed project.

Lumion View: for early design explorations
Lumion’s newest product, Lumion View, brings real-time visualization into the earliest stages of design, providing a fast, fluid way to explore, refine, and share ideas, directly in your 3D modeling software. Currently available for SketchUp, it will soon support additional CAD integrations.

Lumion Pro: for advanced visualization
Lumion’s flagship product, Lumion Pro, is fully compatible with all major CAD and 3D modeling software. With an extensive library of nearly 10,000 objects, characters, and materials, it allows you to add context and depth to any scene. Capture the true spirit of a space with advanced effects, and showcase your designs through high-quality images, animations, and 360° panoramas.

With Lumion as your creative companion, you can transform any 3D model into an experience that captivates and inspires.

You decide what the future holds. Visualize it in Lumion.

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Lumion Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €199.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Lumion View

€199.00

per user, per year

No plan information available

Lumion Pro

€999.00

per user, per year

No plan information available

Lumion Studio

€1,299.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

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Lumion Features

Popular features found in Architectural CAD
2D Drawing
3D Imaging
Architectural Symbol Library
Automatic Formatting
Design Templates
Drafting
Rendering
More features of Lumion
3D Design & Modeling
3D Light Rendering
3D Modeling
3D Texture Rendering
Animation
BIM Modeling
Building Information Model
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Comparison View
Component Library
Content Library
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Design Management
For AEC Industry
For Architects
Image Editing
Landscape Design
Modeling & Simulation
Panoramas
Presentation Tools
Real Time Comparisons
Real-time Product Visualizations
Real-Time Updates
Video Creation

Lumion Integrations

SketchUp

Integration rated 4.8 from 20 reviews

Revit

Integration rated 4.8 from 14 reviews

Lumion User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

70%

27%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.5

Deni H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Make your model design realistic.

Good, especially when dealing with landscaping or building model information. Lots of easy steps to follow to get the results I want.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user interface is comfortable and easy to use, has a media library that can be easily accessed to speed up my work.

Cons:

Unfriendly prices and software versions that change too quickly make it difficult for me to deal with old files.

MUHAMMAD B.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

a great product to help Sell 3D designs

so far it helps send the design aspects to the clients with min rendering time and even night time veiws

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

what i like it its easy to use compared to using Vray in sketch up or other plug ins. Lumion is its own program, you build you model in Sketch up then import it to Lumion, after that you pull in the model you can add trees people and effects like water moving. render it for views, or even what i like is make a panorama 360 view for VR goggles or even just upload it to Lumion Site and send it to clients to view easily.

Cons:

a huge price difference between the Pro and normal version some items you think that should be in the basic is only available on the Pro version and that costs almost $1,400 more. also a lot of trees and plants, and rendering options only in pro even live street views

Reasons for choosing Lumion

easier to use one time licensing fee and can use on Multiple computers

Reasons for switching to Lumion

faster and easier to use

Verified

Reviewer

Architecture & Planning

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Easy quick renderings.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This is a great tool for creating immersive renderings and animations quickly. The libraries of entourage objects are great making it very easy to populate your model. Intuitive and quick material library.

Cons:

There is a limited degree of control over the rendering properties and the output is a bit cartoony.

Juan Pablo G.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

the best tool to model quickly and efficiently

I really like how quickly one can model and set projects

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

the interface and the ease of applying textures and setting of the models

Cons:

very expensive for companies that are starting

Reasons for choosing Lumion

because I liked the interface better and how fast it could model projects

Reasons for switching to Lumion

because I liked the interface better and how fast it could model projects

Favio R.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Easiest and most complete rendering engine and 3D real time visualization software

We used this software daily for our presentations with customers and they got amazed as well, because if they needed to change something, we just did it in the meeting and they saw the new image immediately on Lumion.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I keep getting amazed by how easy it is to render images on Lumion. You just import the model that you made in an external 3d modeling software and once inside Lumion, the magic starts by picking materials and inserting furniture, plants, select sky, etc. There is a wide variety of 3d models for furniture, people, plants, etc. The best part is that you can do all this in real time, as you move you see it rendered.

Cons:

You will need a powerful computer to get the best results. But it is expected, not a surprise. Everything else is perfect.

Reasons for choosing Lumion

Interface and learning curve.

Reasons for switching to Lumion

Faster and easier renders.

Tichaona Redemptor R.

Verified reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

The only software needed for all kinds of design aspects.

Absolutely awesome.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Lumion is able to design anything that is in your imagination from houses cars to even a writing pen

Cons:

There really is not much to say about Lumion that is negative besides the fact I have to be paying a subscription.

Reasons for choosing Lumion

The price is good

Reasons for switching to Lumion

I had to give other product a try.

Shubhi J.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Lumion the best real time render software out there?

Overall I was very pleased to use Lumion as its intuitive and fun to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The best thing about Lumion is that it is very easy to use in the beginning, anyone can start to render simple scenes without much effort. The component library is very huge, one of the biggest you can get in a software like this.

Cons:

It is very expensive while we compare it to similar software. For professional grade quality you will have to invest more time and the system requirement to run Lumion is also high.

Kasun M.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Best ever architectural rendering software in the world

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For realistic renderings, this is the best tool. As a civil engineer I am using the application to make realistic 3d renderings of the structures. It provides nice illusions and effects to make your renderings more realistic. It allows 3d image rendering, sceneries and also the animations.

Cons:

Since this is a high power rendering engine, this software needs higher processing power. Therefore, you have to use more powerful pc to get your work done.

Mohamed S.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Lumion can bring my 3D model to life

Lumion makes my Renders so Easy to bring it to life and helpful , you dont want to be Expert to use Lumion

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Lumion can Export a High Defintion Images and Videos faster than any software else , thes save my time and money

Cons:

the thing i dont like too much is how we move and scale in lumion

Fariz A.

Verified reviewer

Design

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

Ultimate Tool for 3D visualization and animation.

It saves time for creating superb animation walkthroughs/flythroughs and stunning images. It may be a bit of a learning curve but I would prefer Lumion to create animations compared to other 3d applications I have used over the years.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It saves time to create 3d environments around you model that you want to showcase, has realtime sun and night setting, creating oceans, landscapes, trees with ease which are pre-animated and according to physics. It renders faster than any other rendering plugin software and quality is even better. I can even create bokeh effects, depth of field, camera shakes and many more. What's cool is that you can create and populate the scene in real-time with effects like playing a video game. So you do not need to render every time you create a new effect just to see how it looks like. Saves time like a lot!

Cons:

Lumion is NOT a modeling software. Your 3d models created are imported into the software and you populate the scene with its internal library. I find the internal library lacking models but Lumion keeps improving their 3d library in every new version released. Also, its interface can be confusing sometimes. This coming from experience using other 3d software which are far friendlier to use.

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