It depends on who makes it: a visualization studio per image and revision round, your firm with its own rendering pipeline, or you yourself in Vizera with credits. Here are the three routes side by side, how Vizera charges and three examples from everyday office work – with the prices from the price list.
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The same task – an image of the design for a meeting, competition or marketing – costs something different depending on the route. None of the three is always the right one.
Per image
Several hundred to over a thousand francs per image, depending on the studio, level of detail and revision rounds; competition images, animations and city models considerably more. Plus briefing, coordination and one to three weeks – and an image whose camera, light and entourage are fine-tuned over days.
Per year and seat
A license for Lumion, Enscape or V-Ray, a Windows computer with a graphics card, someone in the office who masters scene, materials and lighting – and the hours each variant takes. In return: exact geometry, animation and walkthroughs from the model. What the licenses cost is listed, with dates, on the comparison pages.
Per month, with credits
Basic from CHF 120 per month on the annual plan with 4'000 credits, Pro from CHF 264 with 10'000 credits; an image costs 5 to 25 credits depending on model and resolution. No hardware, in the browser, minutes per version – from your 3D model, sketch or photo, depicted rather than physically calculated.
Prices for visualization studios are typical values from quotes in German-speaking countries, not figures from individual providers. Vizera prices excl. VAT, as of October 2026; in euros on vizera.de and vizera.at.
Every plan includes credits per month; an image uses 5 to 25 of them, depending on model and resolution. That determines what an image costs you.
CHF 0 · 200 credits once
For testing with your own project, not for client work: 200 credits once at sign-up, so 8 to 40 images depending on model and resolution. No credit card.
CHF 120 per month on the annual plan · 4'000 credits
160 to 800 images per month, depending on model and resolution – from CHF 0.15 per image. CHF 150 when paid monthly. For a firm that needs a few variants every week.
CHF 264 per month on the annual plan · 10'000 credits
400 to 2'000 images per month, depending on model and resolution. CHF 330 when paid monthly. For firms with several projects in parallel; Team with three or five users is on the pricing page.
Subscription credits reset monthly and are used first; purchased credit packs do not expire. Videos cost 300 to 400 credits. Prices excl. VAT, as of October 2026.
What the same task costs in credits – calculated at 15 to 25 credits per high-resolution image on the Basic annual plan.
Competition
Settling perspective, material and mood in 60 versions: 900 to 1'500 credits, so CHF 27 to CHF 45 on the Basic annual plan – about a third of the monthly allowance. You then commission the final image for the jury with an image instead of a description, or skip it for small competitions.
Facade renovation
Six color and render variants on a photo of the existing building, three views each: 18 images, 270 to 450 credits, so CHF 8 to CHF 14. At a visualization studio, each variant would be a quoted revision round – here the owners’ meeting decides on a board.
Real estate
Ten properties with four images each per month – day, evening, two material versions: 40 images, 600 to 1'000 credits, so CHF 18 to CHF 30 a month. The Basic plan covers it with room to spare; the images remain visualizations, not a representation about the property.
Calculation: credits × CHF 0.03 (CHF 120 divided by 4'000 credits). At lower resolution, usage drops to 5 credits per image. Not included are your working time and any final image from a studio.
Three factors determine what a visualization costs – at a studio as in Vizera, just in different units.
An exterior with surroundings, a furnished interior, an aerial city model: at a studio the price rises with modeling effort and entourage, in Vizera with resolution and model – 5 credits for a small image, 25 for 4K.
At a studio, two rounds are usually included and each further one costs extra; variants are charged per image. In Vizera, every version uses new credits – and Masking changes only the marked area, the rest stays.
Competition image, marketing campaign or meeting: at a studio, the use often determines the price. In Vizera, the images belong to you; for client projects you need a paid plan, Free is for non-commercial testing.
Three things an honest cost calculation has to mention.
For the one perspective whose camera, light and entourage are fine-tuned over days, a visualization studio remains the right choice. Vizera saves the rounds before it – not necessarily the image itself.
Vizera creates images for decisions, not plans, quantities or submission documents. Check what the image shows against the plan and the sample; for building permit applications and heritage protection, it remains an illustration.
Subscription credits reset every month; if you don’t use them, you still pay for the plan. Purchased credit packs do not expire – better for peaks than the next plan up.
Test the workflow with your own project first. Free is for non-commercial testing. For use in client projects, choose a paid plan.
Annual payment: 12-month term.
For Testing
Free of charge
200 Credits
up to 40 images, depending on model and resolution
Costs less than one external visualization
CHF 120/ mo
With monthly billing: CHF 150/ mo
Save CHF 360 per year
4'000 Credits
160–800 images or 10–13 videos, depending on model and resolution
excl. VAT · Annual payment: 12-month term
Native 4K and enough credits to never count
CHF 264/ mo
With monthly billing: CHF 330/ mo
Save CHF 792 per year
10'000 Credits
400–2'000 images or 25–33 videos, depending on model and resolution
excl. VAT · Annual payment: 12-month term
Depending on model and resolution. Subscription credits reset monthly and are used first; purchased credit packs do not expire.
White models and CAD massings and the visualizations made from them – each for 5 to 25 credits. Click an image to see the versions.
How the individual tools work and what firms and businesses use them for.
Short videos on this topic: follow along step by step in your account.
Answers on single images, images per month, testing, hidden costs, quality and studios.
At a visualization studio, usually several hundred to over a thousand francs per image, depending on scope and revision rounds; competition images and animations more. In Vizera, 5 to 25 credits depending on model and resolution – on the Basic annual plan from CHF 0.15 to about CHF 0.75 per image. There are no single images without a subscription; Free covers testing.
200 free credits, once at sign-up. No credit card, no installation.
