What is the Meshy AI commercial license?

There is no separate commercial license to purchase commercial rights are built into every Meshy plan, in two forms. Paid plans (Pro, Premium, Ultra, Studio, Enterprise) grant exclusive private ownership: the assets you create are yours, with full rights to distribute and sell and no attribution required. The Free plan licenses assets under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), a standard open license permitting commercial use and sales with a credit to Meshy. On every plan, the grant applies only if your generation inputs don't infringe others' copyrights.

What does the CC BY 4.0 license on Meshy's free plan allow?

CC BY 4.0 permits sharing, adapting and commercial use of the asset including selling it in any medium. In exchange it requires attribution (credit Meshy), an indication if you modified the work, and no added restrictions that would prevent others from doing what the license permits. Free-plan assets are also public on the platform, so the license is non-exclusive by design.

Is the CC BY 4.0 license on free Meshy assets revocable?

Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable by design: once a work is released under CC BY 4.0, that grant cannot be withdrawn from people who already have it. Practically, that means assets you created on the Free plan remain under the open license even if you later upgrade so create anything you'll want exclusive rights over on a paid plan from the start.

Do paid Meshy plans require attribution for commercial use?

No. On Pro, Premium, Ultra, Studio and Enterprise, the assets you create are exclusively yours and private Meshy's terms grant full rights to distribute and sell with no attribution requirement. The only universal condition is that your generation inputs must not violate others' copyrights.

⚖️ License Deep-Dive

The Meshy AI Commercial License, Clause by Clause

There's no "commercial license" add-on to buy every Meshy plan already includes one, in one of two forms. This page breaks down exactly what each grant says: the exclusive ownership terms on paid plans, the free plan's CC BY 4.0 license in plain language, ready-to-copy attribution templates, and the edge cases people ask about. For practical selling scenarios, see the companion commercial use guide.

Start Creating → Understand CC BY 4.0

Plain-language summary of Meshy's published Terms of Use, pricing FAQ and the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. General information, not legal advice official documents govern.

Your license at a glance

Paid plans (Pro · Premium · Ultra · Studio · Enterprise) Ownership grant

Assets are exclusively yours: private, full rights to distribute & sell, no attribution.

Free plan CC BY 4.0

Open license: commercial use & sales allowed with credit to Meshy; assets are public & non-exclusive.

Universal condition on every plan: the grant holds only if your inputs don't violate others' copyrights.

The license text, decoded

The two grants, in plain language

Meshy's pricing FAQ and Terms of Use establish two distinct licensing regimes. Here's what each actually says and means.

💎 Paid-plan grant: exclusive ownership

Applies to Pro, Premium, Ultra, Studio and Enterprise.

Ownership: Meshy states the models you create on a paid plan are exclusively yours the platform positions itself as a tool; the output belongs to you.
Scope of rights: full rights to distribute and sell covering digital sales, inclusion in commercial products (games, apps, videos), and physical goods made from the models.
Privacy: paid-plan assets are private not published to the community gallery, not reusable by others.
Attribution: none required. You may credit Meshy if you like; nothing obliges you to.
The condition: ownership applies "provided that you have used materials that do not violate the copyrights of others" the input rule. Generating from protected IP doesn't produce sellable output.

🆓 Free-plan grant: CC BY 4.0

Applies to all assets created on the Free plan.

The license: assets are granted under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International one of the world's most widely used open licenses, with legally reviewed text maintained by Creative Commons.
Commercial use: explicitly permitted Meshy's own FAQ welcomes free users to sell their models, asking only for a credit in the commercial listing.
Publicity: free-plan assets are public on the platform, and under CC BY 4.0 others may legally reuse them (with the same attribution duty).
Non-exclusive by design: the open license means you can never promise a client exclusivity over a free-plan asset.
Same input condition applies: an infringing source poisons the output regardless of license tier.

The open license, decoded

CC BY 4.0: what it permits, requires, and quietly implies

If you're on the free plan, this license governs everything you make. Three columns cover the whole of it.

✓ Permits

Share copy and redistribute the asset in any medium or format.
Adapt remix, transform, retexture, remesh and build upon it.
Commercial use sell the asset, use it in paid products, print and sell physical items.
All of the above worldwide, royalty-free, for the full term of copyright.

! Requires

Attribution credit Meshy where the asset is used commercially (a visible line in the listing or credits satisfies this).
Indicate changes if you modified the work, say so (e.g., "modified from a Meshy AI generation").
No added restrictions you can't impose terms that stop others doing what the license allows with the original asset.

ℹ Quietly implies

Irrevocability CC licenses can't be withdrawn once granted. Free-plan assets stay openly licensed even if you upgrade later.
Others can reuse your asset a competitor could legally use your public free-plan model (crediting Meshy, not you).
No warranty like most open licenses, the work comes as-is; commercial risk management is on you.

💡 The practical takeaway from irrevocability: anything you'll ever want exclusive rights over should be created on a paid plan from the start upgrading later protects new work, not old. Pro from $20/mo →

Copy-paste compliance

Attribution templates for every context

One line, correctly placed, fully satisfies the free-plan license

Meshy asks free users to credit the tool in the description of the commercial page. Here are ready-to-use lines for the four most common contexts:

Marketplace listing (models, prints, Etsy, CGTrader…)

3D model created with Meshy AI (meshy.ai). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Game credits screen

Some 3D assets created with Meshy AI meshy.ai

Video description / social post

3D models in this video generated with Meshy AI (meshy.ai)

Modified asset (CC BY 4.0 asks you to indicate changes)

Based on a model generated with Meshy AI (meshy.ai); modified by [your name]. CC BY 4.0.

On any paid plan, delete all of the above no attribution is required for assets you own exclusively.

Quick reference

The two licenses, side by side

License attribute	Free plan CC BY 4.0	Paid plans ownership grant
Commercial use & sales	✓ Allowed	✓ Allowed
Who owns the asset	Openly licensed to you (and reusable by others)	Exclusively you
Attribution	Required credit Meshy	Not required
Asset visibility	Public on the platform	Private
Exclusivity possible	✕ Never (open license, irrevocable)	✓ Yes
Fit for client deliverables	Poor can't promise exclusivity	Yes
Survives plan changes	License is irrevocable stays CC BY forever	Paid-plan creations remain yours
Input condition	Identical on both: your source materials must not violate others' copyrights.

License FAQ

Commercial license questions, answered

Do I need to buy a commercial license for Meshy AI?

No there's nothing separate to buy. Commercial rights are built into every plan: paid plans grant exclusive private ownership, and even the $0 Free plan grants a CC BY 4.0 license that permits commercial use and sales (with attribution). The choice isn't "license or no license" it's which of the two license regimes fits your work.

What happens to my license if I upgrade or cancel?

Two one-way facts: free-plan assets stay under CC BY 4.0 forever (Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable), and paid-plan creations remain yours per Meshy's ownership grant. So upgrading protects your future work, not past free-plan assets and cancelling doesn't strip ownership of what you made while subscribed. Keep local exports and your Stripe invoices as your evidence trail.

Can someone else legally use my free-plan Meshy model?

Yes that's what an open license means. Free-plan assets are public, and CC BY 4.0 lets anyone share, adapt and even sell them, provided they attribute Meshy. If that thought bothers you for a particular asset, it's a paid-plan asset.

Does "indicate changes" mean I must document every edit?

No CC BY 4.0 asks for a reasonable indication that the work was modified, not a changelog. A phrase like "based on a Meshy AI generation, modified" in your attribution line satisfies it. (And on paid plans the question never arises no attribution at all.)

Is AI-generated work even copyrightable? Does that affect my license?

This is the genuinely unsettled area: jurisdictions differ on copyright in AI-generated works, and the law is evolving. What Meshy's license controls is the relationship between you and Meshy the platform claims no ownership over paid-plan output and grants you its rights. How much protection you can enforce against third-party copiers depends on your jurisdiction and how much human creative input your workflow adds. For commercial projects where enforceability matters, this is the question to put to a lawyer no web page (including this one) can settle it.

Where is the actual license text?

Three sources: Meshy's Terms of Use (linked in their site footer) the governing document for the ownership grant; the FAQ on Meshy's official pricing page the plain-statement of selling rights per plan; and the Creative Commons BY 4.0 deed and legal code at creativecommons.org the full text of the free-plan license. This page summarises all three; they govern in any conflict.