Lumion vs Enscape (2026): Which One Should You Use?

Lumion vs Enscape in short (October 2026): Enscape is a real-time rendering plugin that runs inside Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks, on Windows and on Apple silicon Macs; Lumion Pro is a standalone Windows app that you link to your modeler with LiveSync. Pick Enscape for live design reviews and VR straight from BIM; pick Lumion for landscape-heavy scenes, atmosphere and animation. Lumion Pro costs US$1,149 a year, and in the UK store Enscape Solo costs about half as much as Lumion Pro.

This guide compares Lumion Pro 2026.1 and Enscape 4.21 the way architects choose between them: render quality, real-time workflow, assets, hardware and Mac support, VR, AI tools and prices, with every version, price and requirement checked on the vendors' own pages in October 2026. The question is not which one looks cooler, but which one fits your daily workflow, and how both can sit in the same 3D visualization pipeline.

Lumion vs Enscape: Quick Comparison for Architects and Designers

Core Idea of Lumion vs Enscape in One Glance

Both tools turn 3D models into clear visual stories, but they sit in different places in your workflow. Lumion is a standalone visualization app for Windows that focuses on rich environments, effects and cinematic animations. Enscape, made by Chaos, is a real-time plugin that lives inside tools like Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks, so you design and visualize in almost the same window.

A simple way to picture the difference is:

• Lumion for atmospheric scenes, storytelling, and strong control over lighting, weather, and animation

• Enscape for fast design reviews, live walkthroughs, and VR ready views directly from BIM

• Both for final stills, but with different balance between speed, realism, and control
  

When You Should Care About Real-Time vs Cinematic Rendering

Real time rendering is about instant feedback. You move a wall, change a material, or adjust a light, and see the result in seconds. This is where Enscape is strongest, especially when you run live reviews from your BIM model and walk clients through the space during a meeting.

Cinematic rendering is about polished storytelling. You spend more time on camera paths, depth of field, weather, and post effects to get a specific mood. Lumion leans in this direction with a deeper scene builder, animation timeline, and strong atmospheric controls.

Lumion vs Enscape Comparison Table (October 2026)

Rendering Engine and Visual Quality: Lumion vs Enscape

Ray Tracing, Global Illumination and Lighting Differences

Both tools use real-time rendering with ray tracing, but they organize light differently. Lumion's real-time ray tracing updates light, reflections and shadows as you work, and you shape the result through its effects stack (Lumion asks for 8 GB of VRAM for ray tracing at 1080p). Enscape uses ray tracing for its real-time rendering, with almost all calculations done on the graphics card, tuned for fast feedback directly inside your CAD or BIM model. For the theory behind both, see our guide to global illumination.

In practice, Enscape often feels like a live camera inside your model with physically based light that reacts quickly to changes. Lumion feels more like a scene studio where you layer sun, sky, global illumination, and weather as separate controls. Both can reach realistic results, but Enscape leans to balanced realism with speed, while Lumion leans to more cinematic lighting setups for final images and videos.

Reflections, Shadows, and Photorealism in Exterior and Interior Scenes

Reflections and shadows are key for photorealism. Enscape uses physically based reflections and global illumination that give believable glass, metal, and glossy floors, even in complex interiors. This makes everyday office scenes, housing projects, and fit outs look clean and honest without heavy tweaking.

Lumion lets you push reflections and shadows in a more expressive direction. You can combine real time shadows with ray tracing and tuned reflection settings to create dramatic exteriors, sunset shots, or night scenes with strong contrast. Its tools are very good for storytelling images, where the goal is mood and impact rather than strict neutrality.

Depth of Field, Bloom, and Other Post Effects for Final Images

Both tools include post effects such as depth of field, bloom and lens flares. Enscape keeps them simple and inside the live view: clouds, volumetric fog, depth of field, bloom, lens flare, outlines, white and polystyrene modes and artistic pencil or watercolor looks, so you can move from raw model to client-ready frames without leaving the viewport.

Lumion offers a deeper effects stack that lets you chain many post effects in one style preset. You can fine tune depth of field focus, bloom strength, color curves, fog, and weather on a per shot basis, then reuse that look across an entire animation or image set. This is powerful when you build a coherent visual language for a project, such as a warm residential feel or a cooler corporate tone.

Real-Time Workflow, Live Sync, and Ease of Use

Enscape Real-Time Workflow and Live Sync for Fast Design Reviews

Enscape is built as a real time rendering plugin that runs inside your main design tools. You stay in Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, or Vectorworks and open Enscape as a live window beside your model. When you move a wall, change a material, or add a light, the Enscape view updates almost instantly.

This makes design reviews feel like a walkthrough game rather than a static slideshow. You can orbit, walk, or fly through the scene while talking to clients and test options in front of them. Many offices use Enscape as a daily decision tool, not just a final renderer, because it removes the gap between modeling and visualization.

Lumion Scene Builder, Camera Paths, and Animation Tools

Lumion runs as a separate application where you import your CAD or BIM model and then build the full scene. You place assets, tune lighting, set weather, and define camera paths on a timeline. The interface is designed so you can drag, rotate, and duplicate objects quickly, which helps when you dress the scene with trees, people, and context buildings.

For animations, Lumion gives you a clear camera path editor with keyframes, speed control, and effect clips. You can create flythroughs, orbit shots, and street level walks, then add post effects like depth of field or color grading on top. This makes it strong for cinematic presentations and marketing videos where you want a controlled, story like sequence instead of a simple recorded walkthrough.

Rendering Presets and Styles for Quick Client-Ready Output

Both tools provide render presets so you do not start from zero every time. Enscape keeps its looks quick: besides the realistic view, it offers white and polystyrene modes for massing studies and artistic pencil or watercolor modes for early presentations, and you save views to reuse them. That keeps everyday exports fast and consistent.

Lumion goes deeper with style presets that combine lighting, weather, color, and effects in one package. You can start from a built in style, tweak it for your project, and then apply that look across many cameras and animations. This helps teams build a recognisable visual language for their office without heavy post production for every frame.

Asset Libraries, Materials, and Landscape Tools

Object and Asset Library Comparison for Architecture Projects

For architects, a strong asset library saves hours of modeling. You drop in people, furniture, cars, and props instead of building every object from scratch. Both Lumion and Enscape ship with large curated libraries that keep scenes lively and believable for clients.

As of October 2026, Lumion Pro lists 8,000+ assets (2,400+ nature items, 900+ characters and 4,300+ objects) and 1,500+ built-in materials. Enscape takes its assets from Chaos Cosmos: up to 6,700 render-ready assets on Enscape Solo, up to 10,000 on Premium and more than 18,500 on the Collection plan, plus more than 425 predefined materials, and Enscape 4.21 added more than 2,500 new Cosmos assets with semantic search.

PBR Materials, Material Editor, and Reflections Quality

Good renders need good PBR materials. Both tools support physically based materials with maps like color, roughness, and normal, so surfaces react properly to light. In Lumion, many library materials come with fine control for weathering, edges, and displacement, which helps walls, pavements, and natural surfaces look more tactile.

Enscape provides a material editor inside your main design tool. You can turn basic BIM materials into PBR materials by adding textures and tuning reflection, bump, and transparency. Because this happens directly in Revit, SketchUp, or other hosts, updates stay linked to your model instead of a separate material stack.

Vegetation Systems, Landscape Tools, and Weather Effects

Landscape and vegetation are big separating points in Lumion vs Enscape. Lumion is known for its detailed nature assets and photogrammetric trees: you can import your site's context from OpenStreetMap, shape the terrain with fields, mountains and oceans, and fill large areas with vegetation using its area placement tool. For the craft behind this kind of image, see our guide to landscape rendering.

Weather and sky matter too. Lumion's atmosphere settings go from bright daylight to overcast, rain and night, with preset styles, LUT color correction, sun studies and preset or custom HDRI skies, so you can change the mood of a scene without rebuilding it. This is powerful for competition boards and marketing images where atmosphere and climate storytelling are important.

Enscape handles vegetation through its asset library and linked content, placed directly in your CAD or BIM model. You drop trees, shrubs, and grass into the model and see the result instantly in the real time view. For quick context planting and day to day design reviews, this feels very direct. If you often build large landscape heavy scenes with dramatic weather, Lumion usually offers more specialised tools and content for that side of the work.

Test the mood on one view first: if you only want to compare a few moods before you build the full scene, run the same view twice in an AI render with different lighting buttons, for example Golden hour and Twilight (dusk with the lights on).

One upload and one prompt, two runs in ArchiVinci's Exterior module. Left: the Golden hour button. Right: the Twilight button.

Performance, Hardware Requirements, and GPU Optimization

GPU and System Requirements (Vendor Figures, October 2026)

Both tools rely on the graphics card far more than on the processor. These are the vendors' own figures, as of October 2026:

Enscape also runs on recent integrated graphics (Intel 13th-generation processors, or AMD Ryzen 6000 with Radeon 660M and Ryzen 7000 with Radeon 740M), but without VR or hardware ray tracing. Lumion's free trial includes a built-in benchmark that tests your graphics card, memory and processor before you buy. For buying advice, see our guide to the best GPUs for rendering.

Laptop or Workstation?

Enscape's lower floor makes it the easier choice on a laptop: a mid-range mobile GPU can run design reviews on site or in a client's office. Lumion prefers a desktop workstation at or above its recommended tier, especially for big scenes, heavy vegetation or long animations. If you design mainly on a single workstation, a stronger GPU helps both.

Render Time, Batch Rendering, and Handling Large Scenes

Real-time tools still need time for final exports. Enscape outputs stills, 360° panoramas and videos, with a batch export for many views at once, images with transparent backgrounds, a standalone .exe or web standalone that clients can open, and a .vrscene exporter for V-Ray. Because it runs directly on your model, you avoid long export steps and can generate many views in a single session.

Lumion is built around the camera and the timeline: you queue cameras and animation clips, apply styles and let the machine render while you do something else (our explainer on batch rendering covers the method). Render time grows with resolution and effect complexity, but you gain more control over camera paths and visual polish. For full project films and complex flythroughs, Lumion's timeline is the stronger tool; for many quick stills and panoramas during design, Enscape's batch export is usually enough.

Platform Compatibility: Mac, Windows and Supported Design Tools

Lumion and Enscape on Mac and Windows

Lumion is Windows only. Lumion 2026 needs Windows 10 version 2004 or newer, or Windows 11 version 24H2 or newer (Lumion recommends moving to Windows 11, since Windows 10 has reached the end of its support), a dedicated GPU and a PC connected to the internet. Macs are not officially supported: Lumion's requirements page says it can run on a Mac with a fast graphics card through a Windows license and Apple's Boot Camp, which exists only on Intel Macs, and on some virtual or remote desktop platforms that meet its hardware requirements. The details are in our guide to Lumion system requirements.

Enscape runs on Windows and macOS. On Windows it works in Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks. Enscape for Mac needs an Apple silicon Mac (M1 to M4) with macOS 14.8.1 Sonoma or newer and works in SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks; Revit is not available on Mac, Intel Macs are not supported, and VR is not currently supported on Mac.

If your team is mixed, with some people on Windows and some on Mac, Enscape is easier to adopt across the office. If you already have a strong Windows workstation and want a dedicated visualization machine, Lumion fits well as your main Windows render box. For still images on any Mac, including the Intel Macs that Enscape does not support, ArchiVinci works in the browser: export a view from your model and render a model view with AI online.

Supported BIM and 3D Modeling Tools in the Visualization Pipeline

Both tools connect to the main architecture and BIM platforms, but in different ways. As of October 2026, Enscape installs as a plugin in Revit 2023 to 2026 (Chaos's What's new page adds Revit 2027), SketchUp 2024 to 2026, Rhino 7 and 8.3 or later, Archicad 27 to 29 and Vectorworks 2024 to 2026, so you launch it from your modeling software and see a rendered view at any time. It is not available for Revit LT, a limitation set by Autodesk.

Lumion works as a separate application that imports models from many tools. Its free LiveSync plugins connect SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, Rhino, AutoCAD, Allplan, BricsCAD, Vectorworks and more, creating a real-time link between your CAD software and Lumion. You can model and render at the same time, while Lumion handles the environment, lighting and effects.

When you compare Lumion vs Enscape for your team, list the tools you actually use today, like Revit or SketchUp, and see which renderer connects in the cleanest way: the smoother the link, the easier it is to keep one consistent 3D visualization pipeline from early design to final renders. If what you need from a Revit model is a few client images rather than a live walkthrough, Revit rendering with AI turns an exported view into a finished image in the browser.

Lumion vs Enscape Price in 2026: Plans, Licenses and Team Use

Lumion and Enscape Prices (October 2026)

Lumion is sold as a 1-year or 3-year subscription billed upfront, with no monthly billing; Enscape is sold monthly, yearly or for three years. These are the list prices on the vendors' own pages, as of October 2026, before tax:

Enscape's pricing page shows prices in each visitor's own currency, and it showed us UK prices, so check Enscape's pricing page for yours and Lumion's buy page for Lumion. In the UK store, where we could compare both, Enscape Solo costs about half as much as Lumion Pro. Lumion also offers custom licensing for practices with 10 or more users.

Discontinued: Lumion Studio was discontinued on 27 July 2026 and Lumion View on 15 September 2026, when Axogram, a diagramming plugin with a free plan, succeeded it (Lumion's commercial FAQ). Many older comparisons still quote both, and the US$1,499 they give Lumion Studio is today's Lumion Pro Floating price. Enscape's former ArchDesign Collection appears on the pricing page as the Enscape Collection.

Trials and refunds: Lumion Pro can be tried free for 14 days. Enscape offers a free trial and refunds a purchase within 14 days, a right that using AI credits voids. Both vendors also have education licenses for students and teachers; check the current terms on their sites.

Named Users, Floating Seats and Team Licenses

When you compare Lumion vs Enscape for teams, license type matters as much as raw price. A Lumion Pro named-user license can be installed on several computers but runs one active session at a time, while a Pro Floating seat is shared across a team, and you can add or remove seats at any time. Larger practices can ask Lumion for custom licensing.

Enscape sells floating licenses for Premium and Collection, not for Solo, and a named license works on any device with your Chaos login. Floating licenses are popular in architecture offices, because different team members can open Enscape during the day as they need it: one person runs a design review in the morning, another exports views in the afternoon, using the same shared license. For solo architects, a named license is usually enough, while floating licenses pay off once you have several active projects at the same time.

VR, Cloud Sharing and Client Presentations

The two tools handle VR very differently. Enscape is used for live VR walkthroughs straight from Revit, SketchUp or other BIM tools on Windows: Chaos lists the Meta Quest 3 and HTC Vive Pro 2 headsets and recommends an RTX 4070 Ti or RX 7900 XT with 12 GB of VRAM for VR, which is not currently supported on Mac. You change a wall, move a window or switch materials, and the headset view updates, which suits interactive design review sessions. For clients without Enscape, you can export a standalone .exe or a web standalone.

Lumion's pages advertise no live headset mode. Instead, Lumion renders images, animations and 360° panoramas, and you can upload the panoramas to Lumion Cloud to share browser-based VR walkthroughs with nothing to install. Lumion Cloud also handles render sharing, markup, versions and approvals; in October 2026 it is free during its beta and included with every Lumion plan, with room for 20 projects and 50 GB per account. In practice, many offices let Enscape handle day-to-day VR and real-time feedback, while Lumion creates the final hero images and films for clients and competitions.

AI Tools in Lumion and Enscape (2026)

Both vendors now ship AI tools. As of October 2026, Lumion includes three in every plan, through Lumion Cloud: an AI image enhancer, an AI material generator that turns a reference into a material, and an AI image upscaler (2x using normal and depth maps, or 4x for up to 16K output).

Enscape includes Veras AI on every plan, Solo included, plus monthly Chaos AI credits (100 on Solo, 500 on Premium, 1,500 on the Collection) for AI-enhanced images and AI videos, an AI Enhancer for people and vegetation assets and, since Enscape 4.21, an AI Assets Generator (beta) that turns a reference photo into a textured 3D asset.

Where ArchiVinci Fits

ArchiVinci publishes this guide and makes an AI rendering tool, so it is not ranked here. It does not replace Lumion or Enscape for live walkthroughs, VR or animation from a model, and it does not open model files. What it does is the still image: export a view from SketchUp, Revit, Rhino or any other tool (or use a sketch or a photo), upload it in your browser as a JPG, PNG or WebP of up to 5 MB and describe materials and light in a sentence. ArchiVinci generates a new photorealistic image that follows your view in seconds, with no GPU, scene or material setup; check the details, since an AI model can change them. Commercial use of the results needs an active plan; plans are on the pricing page.

Left: the uploaded image, a two-story house without materials. Right: the result of the Exterior module for the prompt "Modern house with white plaster walls, timber cladding on the upper floor, large glass openings, a lawn and a few trees." with the Daylight button, on the default engine.

For a direct comparison of the workflows, see ArchiVinci vs Lumion and ArchiVinci vs Enscape.

Best Use Cases: When Lumion Wins, When Enscape Wins

Best Use Cases for Lumion in Architectural Visualization

Lumion shines when you want strong visuals and storytelling around a project. It is very good at building full scenes with context, landscape, people, and weather. This makes it ideal for:

• Competition visuals that need cinematic light and mood

• Marketing images and videos for websites and social media

• Exterior and landscape heavy projects with lots of vegetation and environment

Best Use Cases for Enscape in Real-Time Design and Reviews

Enscape works best as a live design partner. It stays inside your BIM or 3D tool and gives instant feedback while you model. This is very useful when you want to:

• Walk clients through the latest version of the model

• Check light, materials, and views during design meetings

• Run quick VR sessions without exporting or rebuilding the scene

For SketchUp Users

SketchUp users can run either tool. Enscape installs into SketchUp 2024 to 2026 on Windows and on Apple silicon Macs, so you render without leaving the model. Lumion links to SketchUp through its free LiveSync plugin, on Windows only. ArchiVinci also makes a SketchUp extension, free to install, that renders the active view or up to four saved scenes at a time with an ArchiVinci account; it is one of the entries in our guide to the best SketchUp plugins.

Interiors vs Exteriors

For interiors, Enscape's ray-traced light and reflections give believable glass, metal and glossy floors with little tweaking, and you check them live while you model. For exteriors and landscape-heavy scenes, Lumion's nature assets, terrain tools, weather and sky presets give you more to build atmosphere with. Many offices use Enscape for interior reviews and Lumion for the hero exterior.

How to Choose Based on Project Type, Timeline, and Team Skills

A simple way to decide between Lumion vs Enscape is to look at three things: project type, timeline, and who will use the tool.

• If the project needs cinematic images and animations, and you have time to polish scenes, Lumion is often the better fit.

• If the project needs fast decisions, frequent updates, and live walkthroughs, Enscape usually brings more value.

• If your team is small and works mainly in BIM, Enscape is easier to adopt. If you have someone who loves visualization and can own the process, Lumion can become your specialist render tool.

Where Twinmotion, D5 and V-Ray Fit

Lumion and Enscape are not the only real-time options. These are the three tools readers compare them with most, each in its own guide:

• Twinmotion (Epic Games) is the standalone real-time renderer closest to Lumion, and unlike Lumion it also runs on Apple silicon Macs, without its Path tracer and VR there: see Twinmotion vs Lumion.

• D5 Render is a real-time renderer for Windows that links to your modeler with LiveSync plugins and is often weighed against Enscape: see D5 Render vs Enscape.

• V-Ray is Chaos's production renderer and Enscape's sister product, for the most controlled photoreal stills; Enscape can export a .vrscene file for it: see Enscape vs V-Ray.

Key Takeaways

Summary of Lumion vs Enscape for Architecture and Interior Design

Lumion vs Enscape is not really about one tool winning. It is about which job you need to do. Lumion is stronger for cinematic visuals, big exterior scenes, and marketing videos. Enscape is stronger for real time design reviews, quick decisions, and live walkthroughs directly from BIM.

For architects and interior designers, a simple rule works well:

• Use Enscape when you want fast feedback, live client sessions, and VR based on the latest model.

• Use Lumion when you want polished stills and animations with detailed landscapes, weather, and post effects.

• If your projects range from early design to final marketing, using both in one pipeline gives you speed during design and impact at presentation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Lumion or Enscape better for beginners?

For beginners, Enscape is usually easier. You stay inside the tools you already know, like Revit or SketchUp, and open Enscape in one click. You move in real time and get good looking images with a few simple sliders. Lumion is still beginner friendly, but has more panels, effects, and scene settings, so it feels like a separate visualization program you learn on top of your modeling tools.

Do I need to change my modeling workflow to use Lumion or Enscape?

You do not have to change your core modeling habits, but a few small tweaks help. Clean geometry, clear material naming, and grouped elements always improve results. Enscape reads the model directly from your BIM or 3D file, so whatever you organize there appears in the render. Lumion usually needs an export or LiveSync link, so it helps to plan which parts of the scene are modeled and which are added later as assets and effects inside Lumion.

Can Lumion and Enscape be used on the same project?

Yes, many offices use both tools on the same project. A common pattern is:

• Use Enscape during design for real time reviews, quick screenshots, and VR

• Export the same model to Lumion later for hero stills and marketing animations

As long as you keep your model clean and update exports regularly, the two tools can share the same geometry. This lets you keep fast feedback and high end visuals without committing to only one renderer.

Do I still need Photoshop if I use Lumion or Enscape?

You can create full presentations without Photoshop, but it is still very useful. Both Lumion and Enscape export high resolution images that are ready for clients. Photoshop or similar tools help with small fixes, text labels, sky swaps, and layout work. Many teams treat real time renders as the “base layer”, then do light post production to keep a consistent graphic style across all boards.

Which tool is better for small residential projects vs large urban schemes?

For small residential projects, both tools work well. Enscape is great for quick interior and exterior views while you design, and Lumion is strong for a few polished images of the living room, kitchen, or garden. For large urban schemes with lots of context, streets, and landscape, Lumion’s bigger asset and vegetation tools are often more comfortable. Enscape can still handle big models, but Lumion gives you more options to build full city or campus style scenes around your main building.

Does Lumion or Enscape run on Mac?

No for Lumion: it is Windows only and does not officially support Macs. Its requirements page describes two workarounds: Windows through Apple's Boot Camp on an Intel Mac, or a virtual or remote desktop PC that meets Lumion's hardware requirements.

Enscape does: on an Apple silicon Mac (M1 to M4, macOS 14.8.1 or newer) it works in SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks, but not in Revit and without VR. If you are mainly on Mac and do not plan to switch hardware, Enscape is usually the more practical choice. The details are in Lumion and Enscape on Mac and Windows.

How much does Lumion cost in 2026?

As of October 2026, Lumion Pro costs US$1,149 a year (€999 in the EU, £899 in the UK) and Lumion Pro Floating US$1,499 a year, billed upfront for one or three years; there is no monthly plan and no perpetual license. Practices with 10 or more users can ask for custom licensing.

How much does Enscape cost per month?

Enscape can be billed monthly, yearly or for three years, and the yearly plans cost less per month. Its pricing page shows prices in each visitor's currency: in October 2026 it showed us £472.80 a year for Enscape Solo, £550.80 for Premium and £610.80 for the Collection (UK store, named licenses). Check the page for your country.

Is there a free or student version of Lumion or Enscape?

Neither has a free plan for professional work. Lumion Pro has a 14-day free trial, and Enscape has a free trial and refunds a purchase within 14 days. Both vendors offer education licenses for students and teachers; check the current terms on their sites.

Do I still need SketchUp or Revit if I use Lumion?

Yes. Lumion is a visualization app, not a modeler: you build the model in SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, Rhino or another tool and bring it into Lumion with a LiveSync plugin or an import. Enscape works the same way from inside the modeler, so both need a design tool next to them.

What happened to Lumion View and Lumion Studio?

Both are discontinued. Lumion Studio was discontinued on 27 July 2026 and Lumion View on 15 September 2026, when Axogram succeeded it. In October 2026 Lumion sells Lumion Pro and Lumion Pro Floating, plus custom licensing for larger practices, so comparisons and AI answers that still quote View or Studio prices are out of date.

No 3D model yet? How do I get a first image?

Both tools need a 3D model. If you are still at the plan stage, you can draw it in Floor Plan Maker, ArchiVinci's floor plan tool for desktop browsers: walls, doors, windows and rooms with their areas, a 3D view and a first-person walkthrough, and exports to OBJ, GLB or DXF for your modeling or CAD tool. Drawing, the 3D view and the exports are free; it is a plan tool, not a BIM program.

Sources (checked October 2026): Lumion's buy page, Lumion Pro page, system requirements and Lumion Cloud page; Chaos's Enscape pricing, Enscape system requirements, Enscape features, What's new in Enscape and the Enscape 4.21 release notes.