Selling models on a marketplace? Shipping game assets? Printing and selling figures? Meshy allows commercial use on every plan but the rules differ between free and paid, and one condition about your inputs catches more people out than any licence clause. Here's the complete picture, straight from Meshy's own terms.
The difference is how you own it exclusive private ownership on paid plans, open-licence with attribution on Free.
What Meshy's terms actually grant on each tier in one table.
| Right | Free plan | Paid plans (Pro / Premium / Ultra / Studio / Enterprise) |
|---|---|---|
| Use assets commercially | Yes, with attribution | Yes, unrestricted |
| Sell the models themselves | Yes credit Meshy in the listing | Yes full rights to distribute & sell |
| Ownership | Licensed to you under CC BY 4.0 (open licence) | Exclusively yours you own all assets you create |
| Privacy of assets | Public visible to the community | Private assets |
| Attribution required | Yes credit Meshy where used commercially | No |
| Exclusivity for clients | No CC BY 4.0 lets others reuse the asset | Yes suitable for client & product work |
| The universal condition | On every plan, ownership applies provided your generation inputs don't violate the copyrights of others see below, it's the clause that matters most. | |
Meshy's FAQ asks free users to "credit Meshy for the tool's use in the description of your commercial page." In practice, a single visible line in your product listing, game credits, or item description satisfies this. For example:
Put it wherever buyers can see it: the marketplace listing description, your game's credits screen, the product page for a printed figure. That's the whole obligation no fees, no approval process.
When attribution isn't enough: CC BY 4.0 is an open licence, meaning your free-plan asset is public and others may legally reuse it (with the same attribution). If a client needs an asset that's exclusively theirs, or you don't want your model reusable by competitors, attribution can't fix that only a paid plan's private ownership can.
Meshy's terms grant you ownership "provided that you have used materials that do not violate the copyrights of others." In plain language: generating a 3D model from someone else's protected work doesn't make the result yours to sell.
Sources that keep your commercial rights intact.
The model may generate fine the legal problem arrives when you sell it.
Original models on CGTrader, Sketchfab-style stores or your own site: paid plans sell freely; free plan sells with a Meshy credit in the listing.
Ship Meshy props, environments and characters in a paid game (Steam, mobile, Roblox, itch.io). Paid plans need no credit; free-plan assets need the attribution line in your credits.
Print and sell physical items from your original models Etsy, markets, commissions. Same split: paid = no strings, free = credit Meshy on the product page.
Clients usually expect exclusive, private deliverables which free-plan CC BY 4.0 assets can't provide (they're public and reusable). Use a paid plan for anything client-facing.
Generating a known character and selling it (digitally or printed) is derivative use of protected IP the input rule means Meshy's ownership grant doesn't cover it. Keep fan work personal.
Models of your own products for e-commerce, ads and AR previews clean inputs, clean ownership. One of the most friction-free commercial uses there is.
Text prompt or your own/licensed material? Clean. Someone else's character, art or brand? Stop the sale, not the generation, is where the trouble starts.
Selling openly? Free plan works (with credit). Promising a client exclusivity or privacy? That requires a paid plan's ownership Pro from $20/mo.
One visible line "Created with Meshy AI" in the listing, credits screen or product page. Thirty seconds of work keeps the licence satisfied.
If ownership ever matters (client contracts, marketplace disputes), your subscription invoices evidence which plan the asset was created under. Meshy emails them automatically.
Yes, on every plan. Paid plans (Pro, Premium, Ultra, Studio, Enterprise) grant exclusive private ownership with full rights to distribute and sell. The Free plan grants a CC BY 4.0 licence commercial use and sales allowed with a credit to Meshy. The one universal condition: your generation inputs must not infringe others' copyrights.
Meshy's published terms tie ownership to the plan you were on when you created the asset paid-plan creations are yours. Keep local exports of everything important and your invoices as evidence of when assets were made. For specifics on edge cases, the official Terms of Use is the authoritative document.
Yes CC BY 4.0 permits it. Add an attribution line (e.g., "3D assets created with Meshy AI") to your game's credits. Remember the trade-off: those assets are public and others may reuse them, so distinctive hero content is better created on a paid plan where it's exclusively yours.
Modelling your own product for your own marketing is the clean case. Modelling someone else's branded, trademarked or distinctively designed product and selling that model (or prints of it) runs into trademark and design rights the input rule again. When the source isn't yours, assume the output isn't sellable.
Meshy states it will not share your data or use it for training purposes without your consent, with web-app data stored on AWS in the United States. The platform is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified relevant if your commercial work involves confidential product designs. Always check the current Privacy Policy for specifics.
The structure is business-friendly: explicit ownership grants, private assets on paid tiers, enterprise security certifications, and Stripe invoicing for records. Enterprise plans add SSO and configurable data retention for bigger organisations. As with any AI tool, the residual questions (input provenance, jurisdiction-specific rules on AI-generated works) are yours to manage which is why we suggest a lawyer for high-stakes projects rather than pretending a web page settles it.
Two places: the FAQ on Meshy's official pricing page (ownership and selling questions) and the full Terms of Use linked in Meshy's site footer. This page summarises them in plain language, but for contracts and disputes, the official documents govern.
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