Meshy vs Tripo AI vs Hyper3D Rodin vs 3D AI Studio
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Meshy
Text- and image-to-3D generation for games, animation and 3D printing
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Tripo AI
Text/image-to-3D generator with editing, rigging and a DCC bridge
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Hyper3D Rodin
Text- and image-to-3D generator with quad meshes, editing and an API
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 6.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Subscription | Subscription |
| Free tier | Free: 100 credits/month, 1 concurrent task, up to 10 assets/month; outputs licensed CC BY 4.0 (commercial use with attribution) | 200 credits/month (about 13 models), public models, non-commercial use | Free plan: generate and preview before paying, 10 private assets, public gallery; confirming a result costs credits ($1.50 each) | No free plan. New accounts get starter credits with no card required; Texture AI, Remesh and LOD tools cost 0 credits |
| Paid from | Pro $20/mo (1,000 credits); Premium $40; Ultra $100; Studio $70 + $10/seat | From $20/month (Pro, 3,000 credits) | Creator $30/mo, or $24/mo billed yearly; direct credits $1.50 each | From $19/month (Basic, 1,000 credits); $12/month billed yearly at $144 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
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| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2020 | 2024 |
| Maker | Independent (Meshy LLC) | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Meshy is the best-funded and most widely used AI 3D generator, and its toolset now runs well beyond text-to-3D — rigging, topology control, printing exports, engine plugins and an agent — with a large customer base among... |
Tripo turns a sentence or a photo into a textured mesh fast enough for rapid prototyping, and it now does more after generation than it used to: segmentation, part-based retopology and texture editing, low-poly conversio... |
Rodin produces some of the cleaner AI-generated 3D assets available, with quad meshes, low-poly options, high-resolution textures, 3D editing and plug-ins for most major engines and DCC tools. Free previews before paying... |
3D AI Studio is a practical aggregator: one subscription reaches most of the leading 3D generation models, with the clean-up tools — remeshing, LOD, rigging — that make outputs usable. There is no free plan despite earli... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.