Comparison · prices read 2026-10-07
We read the pricing pages and the logged-in apps of all three, most of it on October 7, 2026, and priced every action in dollars. Each row shows its own date. We make Sculptly, so we are not neutral, and we say where it is the expensive one, too.
Last updated . Each table lists the source and date of every row.
You want a printability check, one-click repair, auto split, multi-colour export and send to slicer inside one subscription, and you are happy to pay monthly. On its free plan: CC BY 4.0, so credit Meshy when you publish, and 10 downloads a month, Lite model only.
Less fit if you only need one or two files: a standard textured model is about $0.60 of Pro credits.
You want the lowest price per credit, plugins for Blender, 3ds Max, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Cocos, Godot and ZBrush, and a rigging and segmentation toolbox. A standard textured model is about $0.17 on Pro.
Less fit if you need private or commercial models on a free account: its free plan is public and non-commercial, and print repair was not shown in the app we read.
You turn photos into printable models, want to pay per model or per pack instead of a subscription, and want the file rebuilt as one closed solid before you pay. A standard model is 3 credits, about $0.13 to $0.18.
Less fit if you need High Detail often (36 credits, about $1.58 to $2.16, the dearest on this page), a native text-to-3D model, or Blender and Unity plugins.
Credits are not comparable across products, so we priced one thing the same way everywhere: a plan’s price per credit, times what the product charges for the action. On that basis a standard textured model is $0.60 on Meshy Pro, $0.17 on Tripo Pro and $0.13 to $0.18 on Sculptly.
Priced the same way for all three, a standard textured model is about $0.60 on Meshy Pro, $0.17 on Tripo Pro and $0.13 to $0.18 on Sculptly, while Sculptly's High Detail is the dearest line on the page.
| What you care about | Meshy | Tripo | Sculptly |
|---|---|---|---|
| What a credit costs | |||
| Cheapest paid plan | Pro $20/mo, 1,000 credits | Pro $20/mo, 3,000 credits | Lite $8/mo, 165 credits; Starter $19/mo, 400 credits |
| Price of one credit | $0.020 on Pro | $0.0067 on Pro | $0.044 on the Ultra plan to $0.060 on the Starter Pack |
| Price of one credit on the biggest plan | $0.0125 ($100/mo, 8,000 credits) | $0.0036 ($90/mo, 25,000 credits) | $0.044 ($99/mo, 2,250 credits) |
| What one model costs | |||
| One standard textured model | 30 credits, about $0.60 | 25 credits, about $0.17 | 3 credits, about $0.13 to $0.18 |
| The same model on the biggest plan | about $0.38 | about $0.09 | about $0.13 |
| Highest-detail textured model | Ultra mode for subscribers; its credit cost was not read | 50 credits (Ultra Mesh), about $0.33 | 36 credits for High Detail, about $1.58 to $2.16 |
| How far a month goes | |||
| Standard textured models a month on the cheapest plan | 33 (1,000 credits ÷ 30) | 120 (3,000 credits ÷ 25) | 55 on Lite, 133 on Starter |
| Intro offer | New accounts: 50% off the first month on monthly plans | New accounts: 50% off the first month | Starter first month $9 for new accounts within 48 hours of sign-up |
Dollars are plan price divided by plan credits, times the credits an action costs. Meshy was read through an AUD storefront; credits do not change with currency, so its dollars are recomputed from the USD list price. Tripo’s USD list price is used, not its logged-in yearly view. Prices change by region and promotion.
High Detail is where we are the expensive one. It costs 36 credits, about $1.58 to $2.16, against about $0.33 for Tripo’s top textured mode. If you need many high-detail models a month, Tripo’s credits go further than ours.
On the same formula Sculptly is level with Tripo and well under Meshy for a standard model, and its subscriber tools cost 1 to 5 credits where they charge 5 to 40, but High Detail, Ultra Detail and retexture are dearer here than there.
| What you care about | Meshy | Tripo | Sculptly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making the model | |||
| Standard textured model | 30 credits (about $0.60) | 25 credits at 2K, 35 at 4K (about $0.17) | 3 credits (about $0.13 to $0.18) |
| Untextured model | 20 credits | 15 credits (HD) | Not offered: every Sculptly model is textured |
| Highest-detail textured model | Ultra mode, subscribers only; its credit cost was not read | Ultra Mesh textured, 50 credits (about $0.33) | High Detail 36 credits (about $1.58 to $2.16); Ultra Detail 48 credits (about $2.11 to $2.88) |
| Editing it | |||
| Retexture | 10 credits (about $0.20) | 10 credits at 2K, 20 at 4K (about $0.07) | 10 credits for subscribers (about $0.44 to $0.48) |
| Retopology | Smart Topology 5 credits | 5 credits for triangles, 10 for quads | 3 credits for subscribers (about $0.13 to $0.15) |
| Print prep | |||
| Auto split into parts | 10 credits, subscribers | Segment, 40 credits | 3 credits, subscribers |
| Split and colour for printing | Multi-colour print 16 credits | Multi-colour printable export; credit cost not shown | Split 3 plus colour export 5 credits, subscribers |
| Printability repair | 10 credits | Not shown in the app we read | No credits: the paid export rebuilds the model as one closed solid |
| Hollow and orient for the bed | Not shown in the app we read | Not shown in the app we read | Hollow 2 credits; orient 1 credit; subscribers |
| Characters | |||
| Rig a character | 0 credits in the web app | 20 credits | 10 credits; humanoid characters only, with walk and run clips |
| Animate | Text-to-motion 3 credits | 20 credits | Walk and run clips come with the rig |
Competitor credits as read on the dates in the sources list. Our workbench tools are for subscribers and are being switched on gradually, so availability can differ from the price set in code.
Where Sculptly is cheaper is the small stuff: its subscriber workbench tools are priced at 1 to 5 credits, and a one-off credit pack never expires.
Meshy has the most print tools inside one subscription, Tripo has the cheapest credits and the plugins, and Sculptly is level with Tripo for a standard model from a photo, with one-off packs that never expire.
| What you care about | Meshy | Tripo | Sculptly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start free | |||
| Free credits | 100 credits a month | 200 credits a month (Tripo: about 13 models) | 3 credits at sign-up plus 3 the next day, and one model with no account where the free tier is offered |
| What you can download free | 10 downloads a month, Lite model only | 15 exports, H2.5 model only | GLB with a free account; OBJ, FBX, STL and 3MF are a paid export |
| Commercial use on the free plan | CC BY 4.0, so credit Meshy when you publish (yes) | Public models, non-commercial use (no) | With credit to Sculptly until the account has ever paid (yes) |
| What a model costs | |||
| One standard textured model | 30 credits, about $0.60 | 25 credits, about $0.17 | 3 credits, about $0.13 to $0.18 |
| Highest-detail textured model | Credit cost not read | 50 credits, about $0.33 | 36 credits, about $1.58 to $2.16 (the dearest line here) |
| Credits that never expire | Credit packs exist and bought credits do not expire, but a pack alone does not unlock downloads | Credit packs sold ($10 for 1,000 credits); expiry not stated | Credit packs never expire: $9 for 150, $15 for 300, $40 for 800 credits |
| Printing | |||
| Check it will print | Printability check that flags holes and non-manifold edges | Not shown in the app we read | A free report before you pay: size in millimetres, triangle count, whether a slicer sees one solid, and a print-time estimate |
| Repair it | One-click repair, 10 credits | Not shown in the app we read | Rebuilt as one closed solid inside the paid export |
| Split and colour | Auto split 10, multi-colour 16 credits | Segment 40 credits; multi-colour export, cost not shown | Split 3 plus colour export 5 credits, subscribers |
| Export and rights | |||
| A print file costs | Part of a subscription; Free is 10 Lite downloads a month | Free is capped at 15 exports; Pro lists unlimited | $1.90 a model, or $3 for every model on the account |
| Licence once you pay | Private, customer-owned assets on paid plans (yes) | Private models and commercial use on paid plans (yes) | After any purchase: no attribution, on every model on your account — including the ones you already made. (yes) |
| Plugins for other software | Plugins for Bambu Studio, Creality Print, OrcaSlicer, Cura, Elegoo and Lychee | Blender, 3ds Max, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Cocos, Godot and ZBrush plugins listed | None |
A model that looks right can still fail in a slicer. This is the path from a picture to a print, with what each product shows at each step.
Meshy bundles the most print steps into a subscription, Tripo shows multi-colour export and a Bambu hand-off, and Sculptly repairs inside the paid export and refunds that export if it will not slice.
| What you care about | Meshy | Tripo | Sculptly |
|---|---|---|---|
| From picture to slicer | |||
| 1. Get a mesh | Generate, 30 credits textured | Generate, 25 credits textured | Generate, 3 credits |
| 2. Check it is watertight | Printability check that flags holes and non-manifold edges | Not shown in the app we read | A free report before you pay: size in millimetres, triangle count, whether a slicer sees one solid, and a print-time estimate |
| 3. Repair it | One-click repair, 10 credits | Not shown in the app we read | A paid STL, OBJ or 3MF is rebuilt as one closed solid within 1% of your shape, or you get your own geometry back and are told |
| 4. Set size and base | Add Base | Not shown in the app we read | Set the printed height in millimetres, with an optional flat base |
| 5. Split a big model | Auto split, 10 credits, subscribers | Segment, 40 credits | Auto split, 3 credits, subscribers |
| 6. Colour it | Multi-colour print, 16 credits | Multi-colour printable export; credit not shown | Colour export 5 credits after the split, subscribers |
| 7. Send to the slicer | Send to slicer (Bambu Studio and others), subscribers only | Send to Bambu from the 3D Print menu | Download the STL or 3MF and open it in your slicer; there is no send button |
| 8. If it will not slice | Its terms say it generally does not refund; exceptions are handled case by case by email | Only for accidental purchases requested within 24 hours with no credits used, or when the service misses its published terms | If a paid STL, OBJ or 3MF will not slice, email within 30 days of buying it and that export is refunded in full |
We show only our own renders. We did not generate the same photo on Meshy or Tripo for this page, so their own galleries are the fair place to judge their quality. For Sculptly, here is one photo at all three settings.
PhotoA pet photo
Standard3 credits · 40,000 faces
High Detail36 credits · 93,000 facesBest for this photo
Ultra Detail48 credits · 500,000 faces
PhotoA sign with lettering
Standard3 credits · 40,000 faces
High Detail36 credits · 100,000 facesBest for this photo
Ultra Detail48 credits · 500,000 facesOne run per setting, nothing picked, same camera for every render. Photo: Yam B Chhetri, WordPress Photo Directory (CC0) · Photo: Missouri History Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Compare what each setting costs
The three differ most on what a free account may do commercially, whether a print file costs extra, and how refunds work, so the rows below quote each term with the date it was read.
| What you care about | Meshy | Tripo | Sculptly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export | |||
| File formats | FBX, OBJ, GLB, USDZ, STL, BLEND, 3MF and DXF listed | STL, OBJ, FBX, GLB, USD and 3MF | GLB free with an account; OBJ, FBX, STL and 3MF as a paid export |
| On a free account | 10 downloads a month, Lite model only | 15 exports, H2.5 model only | GLB download with a free account; the other formats are paid |
| Extra fee for a print file | No separate fee; downloads are a subscription feature (no) | No separate fee; Pro lists unlimited exports (no) | $1.90 a model, or $3 for the whole account (yes) |
| Licence and commercial use | |||
| Free plan | CC BY 4.0, so credit Meshy when you publish | Public models, non-commercial use | Commercial use with credit to Sculptly until the account has ever paid |
| Paid | Private, customer-owned assets on paid plans | Private models and commercial use on paid plans | Any purchase: no attribution, on every model on your account — including the ones you already made. |
| Credits and refunds | |||
| Do credits expire | Monthly plan credits reset each month | Monthly credits do not roll over | Credit packs never expire; subscription credit terms are on our pricing page |
| Refunds | Its terms say it generally does not refund; exceptions are handled case by case by email | Only for accidental purchases requested within 24 hours with no credits used, or when the service misses its published terms | Failed generations are refunded automatically; unused credits from a pack within 30 days of buying; unused subscription credits pro rata within 30 days of cancelling |
Sculptly export prices are the standard shelf prices; a signed-in account can be shown a different export offer during a price test, and the price at checkout is the one that applies.
All three give you something free. The difference is what you can do with it.
For a standard model, yes against Meshy and about level with Tripo: $0.13 to $0.18 on Sculptly, $0.60 on Meshy Pro and $0.17 on Tripo Pro. For High Detail we are dearer, $1.58 to $2.16 against $0.33 for Tripo’s top mode. A print file adds $1.90 on Sculptly.
Print prep is where the three differ. Meshy charges 10 credits to repair, 10 credits to split and 16 credits for multi-colour. Tripo charges 40 credits to segment, and its repair step was not shown in the app we read. Sculptly rebuilds the model as one closed solid inside the $1.90 export ($3 covers every model on the account), and subscribers pay 1 credit (about $0.04 to $0.05) to 5 credits (about $0.22 to $0.24) for its workbench tools.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
Tripo is cheaper per model at the entry level. Both charge $20 a month for Pro, but Tripo gives 3,000 credits against Meshy’s 1,000, so a standard textured model is about $0.17 on Tripo and $0.60 on Meshy. The difference is credits, not list price.
That is 120 standard textured models a month on Tripo Pro against 33 on Meshy Pro. The gap narrows on bigger plans: Meshy’s $100 Ultra plan brings the same model to about $0.38, and Tripo’s $90 Max plan to about $0.09.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing. As of 2026-09-27.
Meshy’s free plan gives 100 credits a month under CC BY 4.0, so commercial use needs a credit line. Tripo’s 200 free credits make public, non-commercial models. Sculptly’s free credits allow commercial use with credit to Sculptly until the account has paid once.
Downloads differ too: Meshy’s free plan allows 10 downloads a month, Lite model only, Tripo’s 15 exports, H2.5 model only, and Sculptly gives 3 credits at sign-up plus 3 the next day, a GLB download with a free account, and one model with no account where the free tier is offered. Any purchase on Sculptly removes the credit requirement from every model on the account, including earlier ones.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
A standard textured model costs 30 credits on Meshy, 25 on Tripo and 3 on Sculptly. Splitting costs 10, 40 and 3. Retexturing costs 10, 10 and 10. Rigging costs 0 in Meshy’s web app, 20 and 10. Credits differ in value, so the tables convert each action to dollars.
The actions table above lists every action, with its dollar figure at each product’s entry plan: plan price divided by plan credits, times the credits the action costs. Sculptly’s retopology costs 3 credits, hollow 2 credits and orient 1 credit for subscribers; Meshy’s Smart Topology costs 5 credits and Tripo’s retopology 5 to 10.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
Sculptly is the dearest of the three for retexturing. It costs 10 credits, about $0.44 to $0.48 for subscribers. Meshy charges 10 credits, about $0.20, and Tripo 10 credits at 2K, about $0.07, or 20 at 4K. Both Meshy and Tripo undercut us on this one.
Retexture is a place where we are dearer, and we would rather say so. If you retexture often, Tripo’s credits go furthest. Dollar figures use each product’s entry plan: Meshy Pro, Tripo Pro, and Sculptly’s subscription plans.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
All three can export STL and 3MF. Meshy and Tripo include downloads in their plans, with free-plan limits. Meshy allows 10 downloads a month, Lite model only; Tripo allows 15 exports, H2.5 model only. Sculptly gives GLB free with an account and charges $1.90 for OBJ, FBX, STL and 3MF on one model, or $3 for every model.
Formats as listed. Meshy: FBX, OBJ, GLB, USDZ, STL, BLEND, 3MF and DXF listed. Tripo: STL, OBJ, FBX, GLB, USD and 3MF. Sculptly: GLB free with an account; OBJ, FBX, STL and 3MF as a paid export. The $1.90 Sculptly export is rebuilt as one closed solid within 1% of your shape, or you get your own geometry back and are told. A separate export fee is one place Sculptly costs more than a subscriber on Meshy or Tripo.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-09-27.
Meshy’s terms say it generally does not refund and handles exceptions by email. Tripo refunds accidental purchases requested within 24 hours with no credits used, or when the service misses its published terms. Sculptly refunds failed generations automatically and unused pack credits within 30 days of buying.
Sculptly also refunds unused subscription credits pro rata within 30 days of cancelling, and refunds a paid STL, OBJ or 3MF export in full if it will not slice, when you email within 30 days of buying it with the slicer’s error. Read each vendor’s current terms before buying; the Meshy and Tripo refund terms here come from their pricing-page FAQs on the date shown.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-09-27.
We make Sculptly, so weigh this accordingly. Sculptly lets you start from a photo with one model and no account where the free tier is offered, then a free account with GLB download. Meshy and Tripo give more free credits a month but a bigger set of tools to learn, so try one free model on each.
We have not run a usability test, so this is not a rating. A beginner who wants one printable file from one picture can finish on Sculptly in a single run. Someone who wants to rig, animate or retopologise will outgrow it, and Meshy or Tripo suit that better. Free credits: Meshy 100 a month, Tripo 200 a month, Sculptly 3 at sign-up plus 3 the next day.
Sources: Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages, meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing. As of 2026-10-07.
We cannot rank them. We did not run one photo through all three, and we do not show Meshy or Tripo output here, so any ranking would be a guess. Judge Meshy and Tripo on their own galleries, and judge Sculptly on the same-photo samples above, shown at Standard, High Detail and Ultra Detail.
What we can state is our own: Standard keeps about 40,000 faces and Ultra Detail 500,000 faces, and on the sample photos High Detail kept lettering that Standard garbled while Ultra Detail kept shape but scrambled small text. A single photo also hides the back of an object, so every image-to-3D tool, ours included, infers it.
Sources: Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
On Meshy’s free plan models are CC BY 4.0, and paid plans give private, customer-owned assets. Tripo’s free models are public and non-commercial; paid plans make them private and commercial. On Sculptly you may use models commercially, crediting Sculptly until the account has paid once, after which no credit is needed.
On Sculptly, any purchase removes the credit requirement on every model on the account, including ones you already made. Meshy’s and Tripo’s paid terms are summarised from their pricing pages; check their licence text before shipping a commercial product.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
Sculptly is built around turning a photo into a printable file. You can pay per model or per pack instead of a subscription, packs never expire, the print export is rebuilt as one closed solid, and a standard model is 3 credits. Meshy and Tripo are broader toolboxes with plans that gate features.
Where we are narrower: no text-to-3D native model (a prompt is drawn into an image first), rigging for humanoids only, no Blender, Unity or Unreal plugins. Where we are dearer: High Detail and Ultra Detail, retexture, and the $1.90 print export. Where we are cheaper: a standard model against Meshy, and subscriber workbench tools priced at 1 to 5 credits.
Sources: Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
On Meshy, monthly plan credits reset each month, while bought credits do not expire. On Tripo, monthly credits do not roll over, and pack expiry is not stated. On Sculptly, credit packs never expire: $9 for 150, $15 for 300, $40 for 800 credits.
On Meshy, credit packs exist and bought credits do not expire, but a pack alone does not unlock downloads. For Sculptly’s subscription credit terms, read the pricing page FAQ, which is the source of truth for them.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-09-27.
High Detail runs a different, more expensive model than Standard, so it costs 36 credits against 3 credits. At $1.58 to $2.16 it is dearer than Tripo’s top textured mode, about $0.33. We would rather say so than hide it: if you make many high-detail models a month, Tripo’s credits go further.
High Detail keeps lettering, logos and faces legible and costs 12 times Standard. Ultra Detail costs 48 credits. For simple shapes, Standard is usually enough.
Sources: Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages, tripo3d.ai/pricing. As of 2026-10-07.
Meshy and Tripo figures come from their public pricing pages and from free logged-in accounts, read without buying a plan. Sculptly figures are read from our own code. Dollars are plan price divided by plan credits, times the credits an action costs. Each answer shows the date its oldest source was read.
The newest read on this page is 2026-10-07. Meshy was shown in AUD in the app we used, so its dollars are recomputed from the USD list price. Prices change by region and promotion; check the vendor before buying, and use the contact page if something is out of date.
Sources: meshy.ai/pricing, tripo3d.ai/pricing, Sculptly pricing, refund and licence pages. As of 2026-10-07.
Every Meshy and Tripo number comes from their public pricing pages, or from a logged-in free account on the date shown beside it, read without buying or generating anything beyond the free actions. Dollar figures are plan price divided by plan credits, times the credits the product charges for the action. Prices vary by currency, region and promotion; check the vendor before buying. We have not paid for any competitor plan. Sculptly rows are read from our own code and pricing page on the same day. Official pages: Meshy pricing, Tripo pricing. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it. First published October 7, 2026; last reviewed October 7, 2026.