Meshy
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveGenerates rigged, textured 3D models from prompts or reference images
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Plans seen today: Free with 100 credits a month, CC BY 4.0 licence and 1 concurrent task; Starter with 250 credits and 5 concurrent tasks, shown to us only in Polish zloty (zł 36) so its USD price is unconfirmed; Pro $20 a month or $240 a year for 1,000 credits, 10 concurrent tasks and API access; Premium $40 for 3,000 credits and 30 tasks; Studio $70 a month or $840 a year for a 5,500-credit team pool and 60 tasks; Enterprise custom. Monthly credits reset each month, purchased and earned credits never expire, and Starter, Pro and Premium get 20% off extra credit packs.
Use tool ↗About Meshy
Generates a 3D mesh from a written prompt or a reference image (the current model is Meshy 7.1), textures it with PBR map sets with an HD 4K option, auto-rigs humanoid and quadruped characters and applies more than 600 motion presets; a low-poly mode sets the polygon budget and 3D-print output is watertight with auto-repair and splitting. Exports go to FBX, GLB, OBJ, USDZ, 3MF and STL, with plugins for Blender, Unity, Unreal, Roblox Studio, 3ds Max and six slicers, and a REST API, MCP server and CLI for pipelines. Plans run Free (100 credits a month, CC BY 4.0 output), Starter, Pro ($20 a month for 1,000 credits with API access), Premium ($40, 3,000) and Studio ($70, 5,500 shared); monthly credits reset while purchased credits are permanent. Meshy LLC is based in Sunnyvale, California.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page lists Free (100 credits, CC BY 4.0, 1 concurrent task), Starter (250 credits, 5 tasks), Pro (1,000 credits, 10 tasks, API), Premium (3,000, 30 tasks), Studio (5,500 shared, 60 tasks) and Enterprise; page served in PLN, while its structured data gives Pro $20 monthly or $240 yearly, Premium $40 and Studio $70 monthly or $840 yearly in USD; monthly credits reset, permanent credits do not expire (15 October 2026)meshy.ai ↗
- Homepage advertises Meshy 7.1, text-to-3D and image-to-3D in under a minute, PBR texturing with HD 4K, auto-rigging for humanoids and quadrupeds, 600+ motion presets, low-poly mode, watertight 3D-print output, exports FBX, GLB, OBJ, USDZ, 3MF and STL, plugins for Blender, Unity, Unreal, Roblox Studio, 3ds Max and six slicers, plus API, MCP server and CLI; footer MESHY LLC (15 October 2026)meshy.ai ↗
- Terms of Use name Meshy LLC at 111 West Evelyn Avenue, Suite 304, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, governed by California law; free-plan output is licensed to users under CC BY 4.0 while paid-plan customers own their output (15 October 2026)meshy.ai ↗
- About page describes the company as rooted in Silicon Valley with a global team and starts its growth timeline at October 2023 (15 October 2026)meshy.ai ↗
Is Meshy legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Feb 27, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 11, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 27, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Meshy LLC, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Meshy
The default pick for fast 3D from prompts or concept art, and the auto-rigging plus first-party engine plugins are what separate it from the pack. Topology is still dense enough that hero assets need a retopo pass before they go into production.
Pros
- Free plan gives 100 credits a month, enough to genuinely evaluate it
- Auto-rigging with 600+ motion presets removes an entire manual stage
- First-party plugins for Blender, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Maya and Roblox Studio
- REST API opens at the $20 Pro tier rather than behind enterprise sales
Cons
- Free-tier output is licensed CC BY 4.0; asset ownership only comes with a paid plan
- Generated meshes are often dense and need retopology for animation-heavy work
- Monthly credits reset and vanish; only purchased top-up credits carry over
- Concurrency is capped (10 simultaneous tasks on Pro), which throttles bulk runs
Best for
- Indie game devs filling scenes with props and background assets
- Concept artists turning 2D sketches into blockout meshes
- 3D printing, where output is watertight and slicer-ready
- Pipelines that want 3D generation available behind an API
Not for
- Hero characters that need hand-authored edge flow
- Precise CAD or engineering geometry
- Commercial use on the free plan without crediting the source
Watch out: Anything generated on the free plan carries a CC BY 4.0 licence, so commercial use requires attribution until you upgrade.
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