Tripo
Verified Oct 29, 2026 ActiveGenerates textured 3D models from a text prompt, a single image or a sketch, in a browser studio and through a developer API.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Credit-based plans with a free tier. The official site sits behind a bot challenge that blocked our fetches, and third-party listings disagree on the price, so no figure is recorded here.
Use tool ↗About Tripo
Tripo is a 3D generation service from VAST, the team behind the open-source TripoSR, TripoSG and TripoSF reconstruction models. In Tripo Studio, the web app, you describe an object or upload an image or sketch and get a textured 3D mesh that can be refined and downloaded for games, 3D printing, AR or product visualisation; the same models are offered to developers on a separate API platform. The company published TripoSR with Stability AI in 2024 under the MIT licence, and in 2025 released its Tripo 3.0 model, which it says improves textures, part segmentation and multi-modal input. Plans are credit-based with a free tier.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026
Verified sources
- VAST is the team behind Tripo AI; official site tripo3d.ai; TripoSR, TripoSG, TripoSF and TripoSplat repositoriesgithub.com ↗
- TripoSR developed by Tripo AI and Stability AI, released under MIT licence (repository created February 2024)github.com ↗
- Separate API platform for Tripo modelsplatform.tripo3d.ai ↗
- Tripo 3.0 model announced in August 2025, powering Tripo Studiobusinesswire.com ↗
Is Tripo 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
- Oct 27, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Oct 29, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by DigiCert, Inc., valid until Apr 25, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 29, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 29, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- VASTOur research, card verified Oct 29, 2026
Pros & cons of Tripo
Tripo suits game developers, 3D printing hobbyists and product designers who want a usable textured mesh from a reference image or prompt in minutes instead of modelling from scratch. Artists who need production topology and exact dimensions will still clean up results in Blender or another DCC tool, and buyers should check credit costs and licence terms on the live pricing page first.
Pros
- Accepts text, a single image or a sketch as input
- Open-source research models (TripoSR, TripoSG, TripoSF) from the same team
- Developer API alongside the browser studio
- Free tier for trying it out
Cons
- Generated meshes usually need cleanup for production use
- Pricing is credit-based and was not verifiable from the official site at review time
- Commercial-use terms depend on the plan
Best for
- Indie game developers prototyping props and characters
- Makers turning a sketch or photo into a printable model
- Developers adding image-to-3D to an app through the API
Not for
- Studios that need hand-optimised topology for final production assets
- Projects that require precise CAD dimensions and engineering tolerances
Watch out: Check which plan grants commercial use and how many credits a textured high-detail model consumes before committing; we could not confirm current prices because the vendor's site blocked automated access.
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