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# Free & Open Source <br> Render Management

Take control of your computing infrastructure and get things done.<br>
Flamenco is used in production at [Blender Studio](https://studio.blender.org).

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![Flamenco Screenshot](/images/flamenco_screenshot_01.webp)

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## Features overview

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### Free and Open Source

Released under GPL 3.0, every component of Flamenco is Free and Open Source
software. Development is supported by the Blender project.

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### Simple and Portable

Flamenco consists of a few components and requires almost no configuration
to be used in production.

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### Easy Customization

Designed to be customizable, Flamenco allows TDs to specify
Job Types using the JavaScript language and seamlessly fit into the pipeline.

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### Cross-platform and Self-hosted

Flamenco runs on all major operating system, and is fully hosted on your own hardware.
Your data is yours, and yours alone.

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### Robust Technology

The core of Flamenco is build using Go and SQLite. Check out the sources on
[projects.blender.org](https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco).

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### In Development

Flamenco v3 is in active development at Blender Studio. Join
[the chat](https://blender.chat/channel/flamenco) to see what's happening!

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Looking for the old [Flamenco v2 documentation][F2]?

[F2]: /v2/