Blender: 3.4 Million downloads per year

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blender-logoThe Blender Foundation have just published their latest download statistics. Without even including some file sharing sites there were over 3.4 Million Blender downloads last year!

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    • dambs

      Impressive…!

    • aws357

      I thought that was what they earn per year. duh me ^^

      Still… 3.4 millions download that’s roughly the population of Paris + Suburb… Impressive.

    • MarcoA

      The statistic doesn’t consider the downloads of Blender packages (.deb, .rpm…) via Linux repositories. Not so much maybe, but they are there.

    • daa

      is this one version of blender? i think this digit must be divided to get number of user tries.
      but steel impressive!

    • RNS

      autodesk might be doing the figures now.yes this statistic dose put a blow on commercial 3d package. maybe that why they attack us.

    • MarcoA

      @RNS
      I didn’t know Autodesk to attack Blender. I use Autodesk products to model and Blender to render without fighting. I usually post some “Friday Pictures” at Autodesk forum,a s you can see here:

      http://images.google.it/images?hl=en&q=blender+marcoa+inventor+site:http://discussion.autodesk.com

      (best ones come from Blender (-:)

    • Tilli

      Nice, but don’t you have to divide it through the SVNs, branches etc.??

      That is the thing about blender that sucks!!
      There are SVNs, branches, RC or Fullversion!
      For every from them there are versions for SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Multicore, Python 2.5, Python 2.52, Python 2.6, Python 2.62, 64bit, 32bit, ffmpeg, AMD, Intel, fastmath, hyperthreaded, LAA, with new features and without!!
      And that mixed and incompatible to eachother!
      So you can search and maybe compile your best version for a lifetime.

    • Guy

      6 next year.

    • Tom Gleason

      Impressive, though the people who are very involved with the code and different builds could probably download several full copies a day, I imagine.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @RNS: autodesk never attacked Blender. Please don’t spread rubbish.

      @Tom Gleason: developers work from SVN mostly, so they probably don’t need to download pre-built binaries.

      And in general, yes, I think most people download a few copies of Blender each year, even if there were only two official releases in 2008. After re-installing your computer, or installing it on another machine?

    • aws357

      You also have to take into account those who download Blender three times.

      One for Linux (at work)
      One for Windows (at home)
      One for Mac OS X (nomade)

      That’s still 1 million.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      And then there’s the ‘downloading… running… OMG! WHAT IS THIS?! deleting’ group I guess ;-)

      Still, even if you’re *very* conservative, you could estimate that there are at least 500,000 Blender users out there. Not bad!

      /me waves to all of them!

    • mercury

      pues cuantas descargas hice este año??? XD
      pues en Ubuntu tengo 2 versiones del Blender…
      y en güindoe$ tengo 5 XD
      sin contar las que he tenido que borrar de linux XD
      saludos…

    • Agile

      @Bart: I download Blender with every new release, and with every new Linux distribution, so we can estimate that intensive Blender users can download it as frequent as few copies per month, not to mention early Blender versions which I checked out for compatibility reasons…

    • Dutchman221

      Wow thats is lot of downloads.
      1 Question on Bart or Ton do you know when blender 2.49 comes out.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Dutchman221: sure! It’ll come out when it’s ready ;-) Sorry, couldn’t resist!

    • Dutchman221

      Haha i know it you would say that ;-D

    • Ben

      I download a lot of copies, but mainly from Graphicall.org
      Donno if it’s the case of many people, but that is not in that counter

    • http://redbirdiii.blogspot.com RedBirdiii

      The Blender Foundation forgot about the Linux repositories where you can download Blender from the dedicated servers to the Linux distribution and not directly from Blender official site.