Flamenco

Plans

As flamenco.blender.org lists them, read 14 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.

Facts from Flamenco's own pages

API

Flamenco Manager exposes an OpenAPI 3 API, with generated Go, Python, and JavaScript clients used by the Worker, Blender add-on, and web frontend. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Blender add-on

The Blender add-on is downloaded from the Flamenco Manager web interface after installation. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Current release

The latest stable release is 3.9.3, and each download contains both Flamenco Manager and Worker. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Custom job types

Job types are JavaScript compiler scripts, and custom scripts placed next to flamenco-manager can override the built-in ones. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Developed for Blender Studio

Flamenco was developed on Linux for the Linux-only Blender Studio, and v3 is in active development there. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Purpose

Flamenco is render-management software for running your own computers, and it is used in production at Blender Studio. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Self-hosted

Flamenco runs on major operating systems, is self-hostable, and the project says your data remains yours. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Sequence renders

Simple Blender Render distributes a frame range from one Blend file and can make an FFmpeg preview, but it does not render directly to video. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Single-image renders

Single Image Render splits one frame into tiles for distributed rendering, supports one Render Layers node, and does not support a Denoising node. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Storage limit

Flamenco needs shared storage visible immediately to the farm and does not support Syncthing, OwnCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Support

Questions go to the #flamenco channel on Blender Chat, and bugs are reported on the public Flamenco issue tracker. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Who it is for

Flamenco is made for simplicity in small studios or at home, on your own hardware. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Windows paths

On Windows, Flamenco only accepts drive-letter paths and does not support UNC paths such as \\SERVER\share. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Worker identity

Each Worker stores credentials that identify it to the Manager. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

Worker targeting

A job can have one tag and is then assigned only to workers that have that tag. · flamenco.blender.org, 14 Nov 2026

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