Blender

In plain words

Blender is free, open-source 3D creation software available for any purpose. It serves designers, artists, and creators who need tools for modeling, rendering, animation, and other 3D work. The software stands out for being completely free with no restrictions on use and for its open-source nature, allowing community contributions and transparency in development.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Blender is the Open Source 3D creation software. Free to use for any purpose, forever.

The Freedom to Create

A first-look overview of Blender development’s strategic targets for the next two years. Browse assets stored online and download them only when needed. In Blender 5.2 LTS, rendering scenes with many image textures will become much more memory efficient. Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org, licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors. For that reason Blender is Free and Open Source software, forever. Learn more Blender is a member of ASWF, Khronos, Linux Foundation and OIN. It’s also well supported by major hardware vendors such as AMD, Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm. Designers, developers, engineers, artists. All driven by passion. All using Blender to make an…from blender.org

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