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What are the best Meshy alternatives?
Stay on Meshy if you need rigging, its animation library or bridges into Blender, Unity and Unreal. If you want to compare 3D models before committing, OTOY Studio runs Meshy alongside Hyper3D Rodin, Hunyuan3D, Trellis, Seed3D and others on one canvas, so you can send one image to several of them and keep the best mesh. It also makes Gaussian splats, which Meshy does not.
Meshy alternatives compared
| Option | What you get | Export | Licensing on the free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meshy | Meshy 6, texturing, auto-rigging, 600+ animations, DCC bridges | FBX, OBJ, USDZ, GLB, STL, BLEND | CC BY 4.0 (attribution required), 10 downloads a month |
| OTOY Studio | Meshy, Rodin, Hunyuan3D, Trellis, TripoSR, Seed3D, SAM 3D and more, plus splats | GLB on every model. FBX, OBJ and USDZ from Meshy, FBX and OBJ from Rodin. Splats as PLY | Commercial use on every plan, no attribution |
| Hyper3D Rodin | Clean topology and PBR materials | GLB, OBJ, FBX, STL (in OTOY Studio) | Check Rodin's own terms |
| Hunyuan3D | Text or up to 8 images to 3D, Pro and Rapid modes | GLB, OBJ (in OTOY Studio) | Check Tencent's license |
| Polycam or KIRI Engine | Scan a real object with your phone instead of generating one | OBJ, FBX, GLTF, USDZ and more | Limited exports on free plans |
Meshy prices: Free, then Pro $20, Premium $40 and Ultra $100 per month. Checked at meshy.ai/pricing, October 20, 2026. In OTOY Studio, Meshy costs 28 to 110 credits (€0.28 to €1.10) per run.
Choose by what you need
- Pick the best mesh per image: OTOY Studio. One image node feeds Meshy, Rodin and Hunyuan3D at once. See image to 3D model and Meshy vs Rodin vs Hunyuan3D.
- Game-ready rigged characters: Meshy's own app, with auto-rigging and animations.
- A real object, not a generated one: scan it with Polycam or KIRI, or make a splat from photos in OTOY Studio. See how to make a Gaussian splat.
What you give up by leaving Meshy's app
- Rigging and animation. OTOY Studio does not rig meshes.
- DCC bridges and the .blend export. From OTOY Studio you download the file and import it. See AI assets in Unreal Engine and AI video and 3D in Blender.
- Meshy's 3D Agent and retries tuned for its own model.
Last verified 2026-10-20. Prices and model lists come from OTOY Studio's billing configuration, exported 2026-10-20.