Kaedim vs Luma AI vs Meshy vs Tripo AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Kaedim
Turn 2D concept art into production-ready 3D assets using AI and in-ho...
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Luma AI
AI video generation with Dream Machine — and the leading tool for turn...
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Meshy
AI text/image-to-3D generator with game-ready Low Poly mode
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Tripo AI
Fast text/image-to-3D mesh generator for game assets
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Limited personal-use access available; full workflow requires a paid plan | 30 free video generations per month | Free plan available; limited credits, attribution required on outputs | — |
| Paid from | Credit-based tiers from low entry plans up to custom Enterprise; pay-as-you-go credits also offered | Plus $30/mo (monthly, $25/mo annual); Pro $90/mo; Ultra $300/mo | Pro $20/mo (1,000 credits, API access, private ownership) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 20,000+ new creators per month; 250+ enterprise customers | 5m+ registered users (as of August 2024 milestone; current figures reported higher) | — | — |
| Founded | 2020 | 2021 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | KAEDIM LIMITED (independent) | Amit Jain, Alex Yu, Olivia Seow, Brandon Trabue | — | — |
| Verdict | Kaedim's core pitch holds up: feed it a 2D reference and a technical-artist team turns around a game-ready mesh with UV maps, textures, and LoDs in hours rather than days, hitting 85-90% accuracy on hard-surface props an... |
Luma AI pairs a top-tier NeRF/Gaussian-splatting 3D capture app with Ray 3, a video model built around physically plausible motion — water, cloth and object weight behave correctly, which still separates it from Runway a... |
Meshy has become one of the more complete AI 3D generators rather than just the fastest — Meshy-6, shipped in January 2026, added a dedicated Low Poly Mode that outputs game-ready wireframes without the usual manual reto... |
Tripo turns a sentence or a photo into a textured mesh fast enough to use for rapid prototyping, and reviewers consistently point to that speed — one review put it at 10-100x quicker than modeling by hand — as the main d... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.