Meshy AI Pricing - Subscription, Credits, Tokens - Plan Comparison
Everything you need to decide between Meshy's Free, Pro, Studio, and Enterprise plans: what each subscription costs per month and per year, how the credit (token) system actually burns through your balance, what you genuinely get for free, and which plan pays for itself fastest for your kind of 3D work.
The four Meshy AI plans at a glance
Meshy keeps its lineup deliberately simple: one free tier, two paid self-serve tiers, and a custom enterprise lane. Prices below reflect yearly billing, which discounts every paid plan by 20% compared to paying month-to-month.
Free
- 100 monthly credits
- 1 concurrent task
- Low queue priority
- Basic AI features
- CC BY 4.0 license (commercial use with attribution)
Pro
- 1,000 monthly credits (up to 100 assets)
- 10 concurrent tasks
- High queue priority
- 60% faster generation speed
- 4 free retries per task
- Unlimited 3D model downloads
- Unlimited community model downloads
- Unlimited image generation
- Unlimited animation, 600+ motions
- Private license for all assets
- Full - advanced generation tools
- Full DCC Bridge (Roblox, Blender, Godot, Unity, Unreal, Maya, 3ds Max)
- API - 3D platform plugins
- Limited API Playground access
- MCP - Skill for AI agents
- Low Poly (beta, early access)
Studio
- 4,000 monthly credits (up to 400 assets)
- 20 concurrent tasks
- Higher queue priority
- 60% faster generation speed
- 8 free retries per task
- Team management
- Centralized billing
- Shared team credits
- Team model annotations
- API asset retention
- Limited API Playground access
Enterprise
- Customizable credit balance
- 50+ concurrent tasks
- Highest queue priority
- 60% faster generation speed
- Unlimited free retries
- Multiple team/workspace management
- Full API access
- Forever API asset retention
- Full API Playground access
- SAML SSO
- Dedicated account support
- Configurable data retention
Meshy Education Plan
If you are a current student or educator, you can apply for Meshy's education program to receive a discount on a paid plan - one of the easiest legitimate ways to lower the cost of Pro without hunting for coupon codes.
How Meshy's credit (token) system actually works
Meshy doesn't bill you per model or per minute. Instead, every plan grants a monthly pool of credits - an internal token currency - and every generation task burns a fixed number of them. Understanding the burn rate is the single most important thing when choosing a plan, because the headline subscription price means nothing until you translate it into "how many assets can I actually make?"
Credits are the platform's internal currency
Think of credits the way you'd think of tokens in a language-model API or coins in an arcade. Your subscription tier determines how many land in your account at the start of each billing cycle: 100 on Free, 1,000 on Pro, and 4,000 per seat on Studio, while Enterprise customers negotiate a customizable balance. Whenever you run a generation - turning a text prompt into a mesh, converting an image into a 3D model, or re-texturing an existing asset - the corresponding cost is deducted instantly from that pool.
Two properties of the system catch new users off guard. First, plan credits reset monthly and do not roll over - unused balance from May vanishes when June's allocation arrives, so a plan that's too big for your workload quietly wastes money. Second, Meshy distinguishes between monthly credits (the ones bundled with your subscription) and permanent credits (extras you purchase as top-up packs, or earn through rewards). Permanent credits stick around, which makes credit packs a sensible buffer for bursty months rather than upgrading a whole tier.
What each task costs in credits
One of the friendlier aspects of Meshy's pricing is that credit costs are identical on every plan - a Free user and an Enterprise user pay the same number of credits per generation. The differences between tiers are about pool size, speed, queue priority, and licensing, not per-task price. Here is the current Meshy 6 cost sheet, alongside the legacy Meshy 5 workflow that some users still prefer for rapid drafting:
| Engine | Generation type | What it does | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meshy 6 (current) | Model stage | Generates the 3D mesh from text or image | 20 credits |
| Texture stage | Applies textures to your generated mesh | 10 credits | |
| Text to Texture | Re-textures an existing model with a new prompt | 10 credits | |
| Animate | Rig and animate a model | 0 credits | |
| Meshy 5 (legacy) | Model stage | Produces 4 draft variants per run | 10 credits |
| Image to 3D | Converts an image to draft 3D models | 10 credits | |
| AI Texturing | Texture generation on legacy workflow | 10 credits |
A worked example: budgeting credits for a real project
Suppose you're an indie developer building a small game level that needs roughly 25 unique props - crates, lanterns, weapons, foliage clusters. Realistically you won't accept the first generation every time; budget for one retry on a third of them. That's about 33 model-stage runs (33 × 20 = 660 credits) plus, say, 28 texture passes you actually keep (28 × 10 = 280 credits), for a total around 940 credits. That lands almost exactly on the Pro plan's 1,000-credit allocation - which is precisely how Meshy seems to have sized the tier. A hobbyist making two or three models a month fits comfortably inside the Free tier's 100 credits; a studio iterating on hundreds of assets blows past Pro quickly and is the audience Studio's 4,000-credit pool is built for.
Credits vs API tokens - don't confuse the two wallets
Meshy also sells programmatic access through its REST API, and this is a separate, pay-before-you-go wallet. API usage is purchased in advance from the API settings page and is also denominated in credits, but it doesn't draw from your subscription's monthly pool. Subscription tiers do gate access: Pro and Studio include limited API Playground access and plugin support, while Enterprise unlocks full API access, full Playground access, and forever asset retention on API-generated content. If you're building an app on top of Meshy, plan for API credit purchases on top of (or instead of) a subscription, and contact sales for volume pricing once your usage gets serious.
Meshy AI pricing per month - the real numbers
Meshy quotes its headline prices on yearly billing, which can make month-to-month comparisons confusing. Here is the full breakdown of what each plan costs on both billing cycles, what you pay up front, and how much the annual commitment actually saves.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing (per mo.) | Charged today (yearly) | Annual savings | Cost per credit* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | - | $0 |
| Pro | $20 / mo | $16 / mo | $192 | $48 / yr (20%) | ~1.6¢ |
| Studio | $60 / seat / mo | $48 / seat / mo | $576 per seat | $144 / seat / yr (20%) | ~1.2¢ |
| Enterprise | Custom quote - contact sales | negotiated | |||
*Cost per credit = effective yearly monthly price ÷ monthly credit allocation. Useful for comparing value density between tiers.
Monthly vs yearly: which billing cycle should you pick?
The 20% yearly discount is substantial, but it isn't automatically the right call. Pick monthly billing if you're project-based: a game jam, a single client deliverable, a one-semester course. Paying $20 for one or two months of Pro and then cancelling costs far less than a $192 annual commitment you only use a quarter of. Meshy makes this easy - there's no contract on monthly plans and you keep access through the end of the period you've paid for.
Pick yearly billing if 3D generation is part of your ongoing pipeline. The break-even math is simple: yearly Pro ($192) costs less than ten months of monthly Pro ($200), so if you expect to stay subscribed for ten months or more, the annual plan wins - and every month after the tenth is effectively free compared to the monthly route. The same ratio holds for Studio: $576 yearly per seat versus $720 if paid monthly across a year.
One more wrinkle worth knowing: Meshy periodically runs a new-user offer of 20% off on top of the listed Pro price (you'll see the banner on the official pricing page), and the Education Plan gives verified students and educators a further discount. If you qualify for either, factor it in before committing - a discounted first year of Pro can land in the low-$150s, which is dramatically cheaper than buying credits piecemeal through any competing 3D generation service.
Full comparison: Free vs Pro vs Studio vs Enterprise
The pricing cards show highlights; this table shows everything side by side, so you can find the one feature that forces your hand - for most people it's either the asset license, the credit ceiling, or team billing.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Studio | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (yearly billing) | $0 | $16 / mo | $48 / seat / mo | Custom |
| Price (monthly billing) | $0 | $20 / mo | $60 / seat / mo | Custom |
| Monthly credits | 100 | 1,000 (≈100 assets) | 4,000 / seat (≈400 assets) | Customizable |
| Concurrent tasks | 1 | 10 | 20 | 50+ |
| Queue priority | Low | High | Higher | Highest |
| Generation speed boost | - | 60% faster | 60% faster | 60% faster |
| Free retries per task | - | 4 | 8 | Unlimited |
| 3D model downloads | Limited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Asset license | CC BY 4.0 (attribution) | Private, full ownership | Private, full ownership | Private, full ownership |
| Image generation | Basic | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Animation (600+ motions) | Basic | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| DCC Bridge (Blender, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Godot, Roblox, 3ds Max) | - | Full | Full | Full |
| API - plugins | - | Included | Included | Full API access |
| API Playground | - | Limited | Limited | Full |
| API asset retention | - | - | Included | Forever |
| MCP - Skill for AI agents | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team management - shared credits | - | - | ✓ + centralized billing | Multi-workspace |
| Team model annotations | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| SAML SSO | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Dedicated account support | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Configurable data retention | - | - | - | ✓ |
Which plan is right for which person?
Free → curious newcomers
You want to validate output quality before spending anything. 100 credits is enough for a few fully textured models a month, and the CC BY 4.0 license even allows commercial use as long as you credit Meshy. Expect slower queues and a single task at a time.
Pro → solo creators - indie devs
The tier nearly everyone lands on. Private ownership of assets, unlimited downloads, the full DCC Bridge into Blender/Unity/Unreal, and 1,000 credits - enough for roughly a hundred assets monthly. At $16/mo yearly it's among the cheapest serious AI 3D pipelines available.
Studio → small teams
Choose Studio the moment credits, queue slots, and invoices become shared problems. Pooled team credits, centralized billing, annotations on models, and a 4× credit allocation per seat keep a 3–10 person art team out of each other's way.
Enterprise → scaled organizations
For pipelines where Meshy becomes infrastructure: 50+ concurrent tasks, customizable credit balances, SAML SSO, configurable data retention, forever API asset retention, and a named account contact. Pricing is negotiated against your volume.
Meshy AI free, "Pro free," and premium accounts - what's real?
Search results around Meshy pricing are full of phrases like "Meshy AI Pro free" and "Meshy AI premium account free." Here's an honest breakdown of what you can genuinely get without paying, what's a legitimate discount, and what's a scam to avoid.
What the real free plan includes
The genuine free tier requires no credit card and is a real, usable product rather than a teaser. You get 100 credits every month - enough for about three fully textured Meshy 6 models, or more if you generate meshes without the texture pass - plus access to the core text-to-3D and image-to-3D workflows, basic AI features, and the community library. Outputs are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which means you may use them commercially provided you credit Meshy. The trade-offs are one concurrent task, low queue priority (you wait behind every paying user), download limits on the newest model generation, and no private ownership of what you make.
Is there a legitimate way to get Pro for free or cheap?
There is no official "Meshy AI Pro free account." Anyone offering shared logins, cracked premium accounts, or account generators is at best violating Meshy's terms of service and at worst phishing for your payment details - steer clear. What does exist legitimately: the new-user offer (20% off Pro, shown on the pricing page banner), periodic creator promo codes distributed through Meshy's sponsored YouTube tutorials, the Education Plan discount for verified students and educators, and occasional seasonal sales around events like Black Friday. Combine the yearly billing discount with a student discount and Pro becomes genuinely cheap for what it delivers.
If your real question is "can I evaluate Pro-level quality before paying?" the practical answer is: generate on the free plan, since output quality is identical across tiers - paid plans buy you speed, volume, retries, and licensing, not better meshes. The model you generate on Free is the same model Pro would have produced; you'd simply have waited longer in the queue for it.
Upgrading, downgrading, and cancelling
Subscriptions are self-serve: you can upgrade mid-cycle (with prorated billing), downgrade at renewal, or cancel anytime and retain access until the end of the period you've paid for. Models you generated while subscribed remain yours under the license that applied when you created them - a detail that matters if you're planning a one-month Pro sprint to produce a batch of privately licensed assets before dropping back to Free.
Video walkthroughs of the Meshy workflow
The fastest way to judge whether a plan is worth it is to watch the tool in motion. These independent walkthroughs show the full generate → texture → export pipeline that your credits pay for.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions buyers ask most before subscribing.
How much does Meshy AI cost per month?
The Free plan costs $0. Pro costs $16/month billed yearly ($192 up front) or $20/month on monthly billing. Studio costs $48 per seat/month billed yearly ($576 per seat up front) or $60/seat monthly. Enterprise pricing is custom and negotiated with sales. Yearly billing saves 20% on every paid tier.
Is Meshy AI free? Do I need a credit card?
Yes - the Free plan is genuinely free, requires no credit card, and renews 100 credits every month. You can generate, texture, and animate models on it; the limits are one concurrent task, low queue priority, restricted downloads on the newest engine, and a CC BY 4.0 license instead of private ownership.
What are Meshy credits - are they the same as tokens?
Credits are Meshy's internal token currency. Each generation task deducts a fixed amount: on Meshy 6, the model stage costs 20 credits, texturing 10, re-texturing 10, and animation is free. Costs are identical on every plan; tiers differ only in how many credits you receive each month (100 / 1,000 / 4,000 / custom).
Do unused credits roll over to the next month?
Subscription credits reset every month and do not accumulate. However, permanent credits - top-up packs you purchase, or bonus credits earned as rewards - do not expire, making them the better choice for irregular workloads.
Can I buy extra credits without upgrading my plan?
Yes. Pro and Studio subscribers can purchase additional credit packs whenever the monthly allocation runs short. This is usually cheaper than jumping a whole tier for an occasional busy month.
How many 3D models can I make on each plan?
A fully textured Meshy 6 asset costs about 30 credits (20 mesh + 10 texture). That works out to roughly 3 assets/month on Free, ~33 on Pro, and ~133 per seat on Studio - more if you skip texturing on drafts, since mesh-only runs cost 20 credits. Meshy's own marketing frames Pro as "up to 100 assets" and Studio as "up to 400," figures that assume lighter per-asset usage.
Is there a Meshy AI Pro free trial?
There's no time-limited Pro trial, but the Free plan serves the same purpose: generation quality is identical across tiers, so you can evaluate output before paying. New users also frequently see a 20% discount banner on Pro, and creator promo codes from sponsored tutorials sometimes offer up to 50% off the first period.
Can I use Meshy models commercially?
Yes on every plan, with different terms. Paid subscribers (Pro, Studio, Enterprise) own their assets outright under a private license and can sell or distribute them freely. Free users receive a CC BY 4.0 license - commercial use is allowed, but you must credit Meshy, for example in your product page description.
What's the difference between Pro and Studio?
Studio is Pro multiplied for teams: 4,000 credits per seat instead of 1,000, 20 concurrent tasks instead of 10, 8 free retries instead of 4, higher queue priority, plus team-only features - shared credit pools, centralized billing, member management, model annotations, and API asset retention. Individuals almost never need it; teams of three or more usually do.
How does Enterprise pricing work?
Enterprise has no public price - you contact sales and negotiate based on volume. In exchange you get customizable credit balances, 50+ concurrent tasks, the highest queue priority, unlimited retries, SAML SSO, multiple workspace management, full API access with forever asset retention, configurable data retention, and a dedicated account contact.
Is the API included in my subscription credits?
No - the generation API is a separate pay-before-you-go product. You purchase API credits in advance from the API settings page, independent of your subscription pool. Subscriptions gate the level of API access (limited Playground on Pro/Studio, full access on Enterprise), but API usage is billed from its own wallet.
Can I cancel anytime? What happens to my models?
Yes. Monthly plans cancel at the end of the current month; yearly plans run until the paid year ends. Models you created remain accessible, and the license they carry is the one in force when you generated them - assets made during a paid period keep their private license even after you downgrade.
Does Meshy offer student or educator discounts?
Yes - the Meshy Education Plan offers a discount on paid plans to verified current students and educators. You apply through the pricing page; approval unlocks the reduced rate on your account.
Are paid plans worth it compared to other 3D AI tools?
For most individual creators, yes. At $16–20/month, Pro bundles 1,000 credits, 60% faster generation, unlimited downloads and animation, private ownership, the DCC Bridge into every major 3D suite, and API/plugin access - a combination that sits at the affordable end of the 2026 AI-3D market, where per-asset costs between platforms can differ by an order of magnitude at volume.