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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/lumion-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/lumion-profile/alternatives/) # Lumion User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 157 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 109 reviews (69%) - 4 stars: 43 reviews (27%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Fun to use especially world building (placing trees, cars etc.) and creating scenes with different lighting, camera effects such as depth of field and using the near clip plane to get great perspectives on interiors. - I can easily get the render view as per the requirement whether its exterior or interior. - Also, video creation for me is so much fun and effective in Lumion. ### Most mentioned cons - It doesn't have a lot of options in terms of the library - Its does not adhere to all computers, especially those with low capacities. - Lumion needs a lot of computing power, even my RTX gpu struggles a bit in fairly medium to large projects. ## Lumion customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 157 (page 1). ### Super fast for exterior & landscape rendering, but needs a strong GPU - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sayed A. - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: October 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I use Lumion regularly for my freelance architectural and landscape rendering projects. Before this, getting realistic exterior lighting used to take me forever, but now I can render client presentations and short walkthrough animations pretty fast. Even though my GPU struggles a bit on heavy scenes, lowering the editor resolution helps me get the job done. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Honestly, the LiveSync feature with SketchUp and AutoCAD is what saves me the most time. When I design custom 3D landscapes or exterior models, I can update the model and see the changes immediately in Lumion. The built-in nature library (especially the 3D grass, water effects, and trees) is huge, so I don't have to waste hours hunting for external textures online. Also, adding weather effects like rain or real skies takes just a couple of clicks. #### Cons The hardware requirement is definitely the biggest headache. I am currently running it on a PC with an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti (4GB), and while smaller residential models run fine, the viewport starts lagging badly when I place too many high-poly trees or add heavy lighting to a large landscape site plan. Also, the software takes up a massive amount of disk space on my drive. --- ### Lumion: More than Satisfactory!! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: January 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Experience with Lumion is more than satisfactory. I can easily get the render view as per the requirement whether its exterior or interior. Also, video creation for me is so much fun and effective in Lumion. Just easy to go with software! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ease of visualization. Whenever the file is uploaded to Lumion we can immediately see how it would shape. That makes the job way easier. It's like playing the video game, it's so easy to get used to with commands. #### Cons It takes a lot of storage in PC. For a normal user with least PC space, Lumion can be problematic which requires strong graphics as well. It could be costly. --- ### Make your model design realistic. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Deni H. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### the best tool to model quickly and efficiently - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I really like how quickly one can model and set projects #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros the interface and the ease of applying textures and setting of the models #### Cons very expensive for companies that are starting --- ### Easy quick renderings. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Easiest and most complete rendering engine and 3D real time visualization software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### The only software needed for all kinds of design aspects. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Absolutely awesome. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Lumion the best real time render software out there? - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I was very pleased to use Lumion as its intuitive and fun to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Best ever architectural rendering software in the world - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kasun M. - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Lumion can bring my 3D model to life - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Ultimate Tool for 3D visualization and animation. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great software for architects who like to work in a real time near photo-realistic environment. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Paul S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered A lot of great support and from all clients and people I work with. And I have control over my artist impressions, without the need for external visualization firms. And the designing process is much more fun working in a real-time environment. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, solid performance, great renders and extreme fast render times. I use Lumion from the very start of the designing process, and constantly switch between Archicad and Lumion. I show the renders to my clients, or share them on social media in every stage of the process. It's fun working with Lumion and it really gives my designing process a boost. #### Cons Importing external materials (and their respective channels) could be better. It would be nice if all channels could be adjusted directly from within Lumion without a Photoshop detour. --- ### Decent experience overall. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · monthly - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall experience has been decent. Although I like the quality of rendering in Lumion, it takes a good amount of time to coordinate between multiple applications. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Hyper realistic renderings - Multiple customization options for materials, effects and library. #### Cons - Additional software open, needs constant linking back and forth. --- ### Why Lumion is the best rendering software out there. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall if you want the best and easiest rendering experience just go for it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It has one of the biggest component library, its easy to use. The educational content to learn it also in abundance. And last but not the least is the rendering quality which is great. #### Cons The one thing that might be a con for an individual rather than a organisation is its pricing. --- ### Intern Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Working with Lumion has been overall awesome. It does save time and the results are stunning compared to any other rendering software that I know. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like how easy it is to use and how realistic my views look in Lumion. They have a nice wide library and will help your projects come to life. #### Cons I think Lumion could do a better job importing different elements from the modeling software. It does understand materials very well but will not differentiate between elements. --- ### Lumion has a clear and distinct advantage when it comes to speed, a feature often neglected. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This has been the most significantly positive change to our workflow recently. With ease, we're able to produce visualizations for architects and engineers. Finally it's extremely easy to use, requiring minimal training. #### Cons At first we were concerned that there would be a high cost to this massive speed advantage. However we realized applications were well worth the cost and the value was immediately apparent. --- ### Super fast renderings - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Super fast rendering, you do not loose alot of time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Fast rendering, very nice interface, it is fun, and feels bit like some kind of an upgraded gaming engine for architectural visualisation. #### Cons The rendering feel bit like a videogame, 3D connexion mouse does not work properly and let the program crash in a strange way (just automaticaly let the camera spin and you can not stop it unless you restart the program) --- ### Powerful rendering tool- Lumion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · a few times a year - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Lumion is the most powerful rendering tool to make animations with innovation to impress the clients and colleagues for Engineering professionals. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros When it comes to rendering, I always preferred Lumion. I familiarised with the Lumion during my final year project demonstration and it ended with the big round of applause. The detailing available in the Lumion is very handy and useful. The Library available for Lumion is very large and it is very useful when we create animations, data import and export, landscape design etc. #### Cons The big cons in Lumion is time consumption during a large rendering end product. It needs to be improved in the upcoming versions. Pricing for this software also a little bit high when comparing other markets available software. --- ### Great software with lots of potential, hindered by repeated releases with little to no improvement. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · a few times a year - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I used to use Lumion a couple years back because it let you create stunning images on low end hardware, with an awesome speed. Now that I have access to multi-GPU machines, I find myself needing it less and less. Unless they improve it a lot of key areas like the ones I mentioned before. Specially Ray Tracing Support. Which is where the Archviz Industry is headed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is fast to deliver a good looking image, the material Library is great and a lot of the 3D assets are good quality. It is intuitive to use without need of tutorials or training. #### Cons It needs improvement in a lot of Areas: -the UI looks and works dated. There have been almost no improvements to it. -The majority of the 3D Assets look dated. -There are artifacts and flickering 90% of the time when exporting animations. -There is no Ray Tracing, for this price of software that is unacceptable. -No Ctrl-Z function. -No Multi-GPU Support. -No realtime VR Support. -Very expensive. --- ### Lumion - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The realistic visualization and the material availability #### Cons The file size and the high demand of graphics for a better output --- ### Easiest Rendering software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Lumion has a very simple interface to use. It provides great easy features for rendering like adding objects, lights, furniture, people etc. that do not affect the programs’ speediness. Changing the environmental conditions, weather and landscape, is easy to accomplish and interesting for the over whole rendering result without spending hours to do it. Photo and video rendering is much faster in lumion than any other software, which is very important especially when fast results are needed. Photo rendering effects (shadows, contrast, reflection, water…) create a more realistic render without difficulties and video rendering features are easy to use and give a remarkable outcome. #### Cons Lumion navigation is a bit hard and library could be richer in content and quality improved. --- ### Same day renders! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Fast results! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lumion let's me make edits to projects and visualize them instantly. I can rework a project and then have presentation ready renders in the same day. This is great for saving time and communicating ideas with clients. #### Cons Lumion works as a standalone program that once you import your 3d model into it, you cannot edit the 3d model. If there was a way of linking in realtime the edits from Rhino to Lumion that would be great! However, they do have this feature, "LiveLink" for Sketchup and Revit. --- ### The best rendering software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · a few times a year - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I love Lumion. I do rapid 3D modelling on trimble sketchup then import the model on Lumion. I was blown away by how easily you can achieve realistic views in Lumion #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Its ease of use and prebuilt libraries are amazing! #### Cons It is centered around architecture industry. As I am an industrial engineer who has worked on software involving 3D factory, I wish it has those features too! --- ### The real deal in 3D rendering! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered All in all. Lumion is the rendering software at hand for any firm or practicing freelancer architect. This will transform your plain 3D presentations to something the is eye catching and appealing. A highly recomendable software with just very few and bearable cons and problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best part of the software is the 3D additions and allowance to use real skies. The software will allow you to add 3D grass without bogging up or slowing down your machine and make it appear as if it was a captured image rather than processed. The HDR skyboxes in lumion 7,8,9 improve the overall lighting of the image and gives it a realistic look. #### Cons The new addition of the lean UI in the lumion 9 is a standard con. This has disabled many features which include the ability to select and filter multiple categories. Another con is the video playback which is quite slow and time consuming. --- ### A quality program to create realistic renders - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Retail - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. When you open this program, the minimal layout makes it very easier to use and once you get the gist of it, you can explore the multitude of options you can use to create your render. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros An impressive and up-to-date software for both designers and architects, it renders very quickly so you can save a lot of time while it quietly renders in the background. The details of the renders such as animals are also very much appreciable and add a natural touch to the renders created by this software. #### Cons The animations could be much smoother and the controls for the animations could be more intuitive to use. ---