Can You Use AI-Generated 3D Models Commercially?

Layer one: the generator’s terms for your plan

Each vendor grants rights in its own words, and the wording differs enough to matter. What follows is what each primary page said on 2026-11-08, with gaps stated.

Meshy. Terms of Use, last updated September 19, 2026. Free users get a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” with “appropriate credit to Meshy”. The same terms say Free users acknowledge “Meshy owns all right, title, and interest” in Customer Output. Paid users: “such customers on a paid Meshy plan own their Customer Output” (to the extent possible under law). Meshy’s help center (dated August 27, 2026) suggests the credit line “Model created with Meshy – CC BY 4.0 License” and ties paid ownership to your having “used materials that do not violate the copyrights of others.” Meshy’s docs pricing table says Free “You own the output”, which conflicts with the Terms for Free; the Terms are the controlling text. Output you publish to Meshy’s Community is licensed under CC0 (Terms s.3.3). Details on the free-tier question are on the free-tier comparison.

Rodin (Hyper3D). The Terms say “we will not limit your use of such Output, subject to any restrictions set forth in these Agreements”, and that export is “for private or commercial use depending on your subscription plan”. They also say Hyper3D makes “no representations, warranties or undertakings of any kind as to the copyrightability of any Output.” The Terms do not state that users own Output, and the pricing page does not explicitly say who owns generated assets. Whether Free-plan output may be used commercially is not stated on pages we could read.

Sloyd. Pricing page by plan: Guest is personal use only; Plus is commercial use with no marketplace resale; Pro is commercial use and reselling. The Terms (last updated 16 Feb 2026) grant “a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to use models from the web-app within your creations” and say “3D printing is allowed for personal use only” with commercial printing needing a custom license. A Sloyd FAQ was summarized elsewhere as allowing print sales. That conflicts with the Terms, we did not find the FAQ text on the pricing page we read, and the conflict is unresolved; ask Sloyd support before selling prints (see selling prints of AI models).

3D AI Studio. The pricing page FAQ says “All assets generated on 3D AI Studio are private and fully owned by you”, its features section says “Commercial use allowed on all generated models”, and the Basic and Studio plan lists include “Assets Private & Customer Owned.” These are marketing lines. Its Terms at /AGB (last modified 19.08.2026) are narrower: output generated “without a qualifying paid plan or purchased commercial license” is licensed “solely for personal, non-commercial purposes”, while paid-plan output gets a commercial license.

Tripo. Tripo’s Terms (read on its developer sites; last updated July 11, 2025) allow “lawful commercial or non-commercial” use of Outputs with no plan condition (s.3.2), but say Tripo “retains all rights” in Free users’ inputs and outputs, including to license them (s.5.2.1). For paid users the Terms say “Paid Users generally have all rights” in their inputs and outputs, conditional on letting Tripo use and display them as needed for the service (s.5.2.2). Tripo’s consumer site returned 403 to our fetch tool and we did not work around it, so a help article saying “Paid Users have full rights to use, modify, distribute, and commercially exploit all 3D models they generate.” and a CC BY 4.0 label on the pricing page appear only in search snippets. We cannot say which is current. Check the Terms shown at signup, since s.1 allows Supplemental Terms.

Open-weight models. Hunyuan3D and TRELLIS are licensed differently again: a code license, a weights license and the output terms are separate questions. See Hunyuan3D and TRELLIS licenses.

At a glance

Layer two: the platform you publish on

Even a clean generator license does not get a file onto a store. Steam asks for AI disclosure in its Content Survey (Steam AI disclosure), and TurboSquid’s help center says models developed with AI tools are not permitted (marketplace rules). If you plan to ship a game, the checklist is in selling a game made with AI 3D assets.

Layer three: copyright

Vendor ownership language does not create copyright where the law does not. In the United States, the Copyright Office’s January 2025 report says “Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material”, and notes that prompts alone are unlikely to be enough. That material is US-only and is summarized on the copyright page. The practical effect for sellers: you may hold a contractual right to use an output without holding an exclusive right that you can enforce against copiers.

What remains unclear

• Whether Tripo’s consumer-site copy or any Supplemental Terms differ from the developer-site Terms.
• Rodin’s Free-plan commercial scope and whether Terms assign ownership.
• Whether terms continue to apply to assets you downloaded before you cancel; see what happens when you cancel.

Practical guidance

Keep a dated copy of the terms and your plan name when you generate an asset you intend to ship or sell, because terms change (Meshy’s were updated September 19, 2026). Record which model version and plan produced each file. If the plan is Free, treat the attribution condition as part of the asset. And if money depends on the answer, have a lawyer read the actual terms.