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Afanasy
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free open source | — | Free |
As cgru.info lists them, read 14 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Afanasy's own pages
- Access modes
- Watch has USER, VISOR, and GOD modes; VISOR and GOD are enabled by typing a five-character password stored as an MD5 sum. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Command tasks
- It can run any work that can be described with commands, including studio maintenance such as archives, movie encode and decode, and file copy or upload. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Dependencies and hosts
- Jobs support dependencies and priorities, one host can run several tasks, and one task can run on several hosts as a master with slaves. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Downloads
- Release 3.4.1 has a Windows ZIP and Linux packages for AlmaLinux, Debian, Rocky, and Ubuntu; macOS has no binary release and is built from source. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Host monitoring
- It monitors each machine’s CPU, GPU, RAM, disk, swap, I/O, and network, and can add custom Python resource meters. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Interfaces
- It includes a Qt Watch GUI, a Web GUI served by the Afanasy server, a CLI, Wake-On-LAN, and automatic or scheduled Nimby. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- JSON API
- Every GUI, CLI, and Python script talks to the server only by sending JSON, and the Python API builds and sends job objects. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Pools and licenses
- Pools and tickets describe what machines can do and how much, including farm-wide software license counts and per-host limits such as RAM. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Software integrations
- Listed integrations are 3ds Max, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Clarisse iFX, Fusion, Houdini, Maya, Natron, Nuke, and Softimage. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Statistics
- The server can store logs and job and task statistics in PostgreSQL, and a PHP site is provided to browse that database. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Sub-task dependence
- The first finished frames of a simulation can start rendering before the entire simulation calculation is finished. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Support
- Support is community messengers, a Google mailbox, GitHub issues for code questions, and RULES online questions with no registration. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- Web GUI limit
- The Web GUI is for machines where CGRU cannot be installed, and the docs say a browser can hang if it tries to show more than 10000 items. · cgru.readthedocs.io, 14 Nov 2026
- What it is
- Afanasy is the render farm manager in the free, open-source CGRU computer-graphics tools pack, alongside the Rules project tracker. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
- Who it is for
- It is used by CG and VFX studios, and the project says the user list cannot be complete because it is open source and has no client base. · cgru.info, 14 Nov 2026
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