Filter Forge vs Mari
Filter Forge
filterforge.com
Mari
foundry.comSide by side
| Figure | Filter Forge | Mari |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12/mo | $57.42/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 9 |
| Spec score · 3D Texturing Software | 8.1 (#8) | 8.3 (#6) |
| Spec score · Game Texture Software | 7.9 (#17) | 8.1 (#14) |
| Purpose | Filter Forge provides photo effects, seamless textures, and an editor for creating custom filters. | Mari is a 3D painting package for high-resolution texturing and look development in VFX, animation and games. |
| Trial | The free trial requires no registration, lasts 30 days, is fully functional except for its time limit, and includes unlimited access to the Filter Library. | Foundry offers a free 30-day trial with unrestricted access to Mari. |
Plans
Filter Forge
- Professional Edition — 1-month subscription$12 a month
- Studio Edition — 1-month subscription$19 a month
- Professional Edition — 3-month subscription$29, paid once
- Studio Edition — 3-month subscription$49, paid once
- Basic Edition — permanent license$59, paid once
- Professional Edition — permanent license$139, paid once
- Studio Edition — permanent license$259, paid once
- Professional Edition plus lifetime upgrades$288, paid once
- Studio Edition plus lifetime upgrades$538, paid once
Mari
- Studio Subscription$1,289 a year
- Quarterly Rental$949 a month
- Individual Subscription$689 a year
- Individual Subscription$86 a month
- Mari Non-commercialFree
- Mari Individual Subscription (monthly)$86 a month
- Mari Individual Subscription (annual)$689 a year
- Mari Rent$949, paid once
- Mari Subscribe (teams)$1,289 a year
In their own words
Filter Forge
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Mari
Mari is a 3D painting package for high-resolution texturing and look development in visual effects, animation, and games. Artists can preview projection-paint changes in context before committing them across texture maps. Its UDIM workflow supports thousands of textures per model, with each texture up to 32K × 32K pixels; the Multi-Channel Paint node can paint up to eight streams at once. Mari’s Bakery bakes geometry maps, including curvature and occlusion, across multiple objects and UDIMs. Pipeline support includes OpenColorIO, OpenSubdiv, FBX, Alembic, APIs, and Python scripting, with shaders for 3Delight, VRay, Unreal, and Arnold. Listed systems are Windows 11 64-bit and Linux 64-bit (Rocky/RHEL 9). Mari Non-commercial limits exports to 4K and 16-bit per channel, disables Python scripting, and allows at most five objects at once. Foundry offers an unrestricted 30-day trial. Individual subscriptions cost $86 a month or $689 a year, subject to applicable taxes.