What Happens to Your AI 3D Assets When You Cancel

Meshy

The Terms of Use (last updated September 19, 2026) on billing and retention:

• Monthly plans stay active “until the end of the current billing cycle”.
• Fees are “non-cancelable and non-refundable” (s.4). Subscriptions auto-renew; s.4 lets you cancel in your account and says annual plans get a renewal notice 30 days before renewal, while s.5 refers to written notice “at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then-current term” and says “You may not cancel or terminate this Agreement without our express written consent” except for Meshy’s default. The two sections do not line up, and we cannot say which governs.
• Meshy may delete outputs of inactive accounts (s.2.5). API output for non-Enterprise customers is deleted after 3 days.
• Community-published output is under CC0 and “survives termination” (s.3.3).

Further quotes from the same Terms, re-read 2026-11-08: “any terms or conditions that by their nature should survive such expiration or termination will survive” (s.11.6, with intellectual property among the examples listed). The Terms also say “You are responsible for backing up any Customer Output that you wish to keep permanently” (s.2.5), and s.5 says the Agreement “will remain in full force and effect until your use of the Service stops, or is terminated by Meshy”. The Terms have no clause headed for Customer Output after termination or downgrade. So the survival clause is the general hook, and whether paid ownership counts as surviving IP is an interpretation, not stated text. Separately, the Terms add that Enterprise output is “retained indefinitely by default”, which is not the case for other plans.

On downgrade to Free, the free-plan help article says Pro and above models stay downloadable without limit after you move to Free. A summary of another help page (not fetched) says models made on a paid plan keep paid rights and new ones follow Free CC BY 4.0. Treat that second statement as unverified. We found no explicit Terms wording on what outright cancellation does to ownership of past output. Paid “own their Customer Output” is the language you would rely on, which is silent on timing.

Rodin (Hyper3D)

Terms s.4.2: a subscription “cannot be canceled or downgraded within the corresponding subscription period.” Section 12: “we may at our option delete any Content or other data associated with your Account”, and “Sections 9-21 will survive any expiration or termination of our Agreements.” Section 5’s ChatAvatar passage says a purchased license “remains in effect so long as you have an Account”, and a free license is “revocable” and “may be terminated by the Company at any time”, after which users “must destroy any Content in their possession”. That passage is about ChatAvatar, a different product; the Rodin sentence in the same section (“we will not limit your use of such Output”, subject to the Agreements) has no termination language. Section 19 refers to survival of “your ownership of any Content”, which is undefined. No clause says what happens to exported Rodin output when a plan ends. Note the account-based wording: for ChatAvatar, rights track your account, not your subscription. Private-mode and retention statements: the API data-retention policy (effective August 3, 2026, search summary) says payloads and outputs are kept for 7 days.

3D AI Studio

The FAQ says plans are month-to-month, cancel anytime from account settings, annual plans keep access to the end of the period, and there are no cancellation fees. Storage: free 6 months, paid 12 months, extendable to 3 years for 1 credit. Ownership language on the pricing page is “fully owned by you”, but the Terms page returned 404 and nothing on post-cancellation rights is documented.

Tripo

Tripo’s Terms (read directly on its developer sites) say cancelling stops renewal and charges beyond the current term (s.10.4). Termination removes access and may delete files including your inputs and outputs, content you made public “may be retained in perpetuity”, and “ownership provisions” survive (s.10.5). The only statement we saw about rights after cancellation is a claim on a Tripo blog page, found through search; we could not find it in the Terms, so we do not treat it as established and do not repeat it. No clause addresses paid-era rights after cancelling in so many words.

Sloyd

The Terms grant “a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to use models from the web-app within your creations” (updated 16 Feb 2026). “Perpetual” is the closest wording in this group to a stated survival of rights, but it sits in a plan-sensitive context: Guest is personal use, Plus and Pro differ on resale. We did not find cancellation-specific wording.

What to do before you cancel

1. Download every asset you may use, in the formats you need, and note the plan and date for each. Meshy API output vanishes after 3 days.
2. Save the terms and the plan page as they read today; terms change (Meshy’s Terms were updated on September 19, 2026).
3. If an asset will ship or sell, keep proof of the plan tier it was generated on (license matrix).
4. Remember attribution duties on Free outputs persist (free-tier licenses).
5. If you rely on a vendor’s silence, ask in writing and keep the reply. A question that works: “I generated model X on the [plan] plan on [date]. If I cancel, do my commercial rights to that exported file continue? Please point me to the clause.” A reply that cites a clause is worth more than one that reassures.
6. Keep three layers apart in your records. The generator’s terms say who may use the file; a marketplace or store has its own acceptance rules (selling on marketplaces); and copyright decides what you can stop others copying (copyright and AI-generated 3D models). A vendor keeping your license alive does not make a marketplace accept the file, and the reverse.
7. Log it per asset: file name, vendor, model version, plan on the generation date, download date, link or PDF of the terms as saved, and any written reply. If you ship a game, this is the table a publisher or platform may ask for.

If you are deciding between cancelling and downgrading, the only documented difference we found is Meshy’s: its help center says Pro-and-above models stay downloadable after a move to Free. Other vendors’ pages say nothing either way, which is a reason to export before you change plan, not after.

For the broader checklist when shipping, see selling a game made with AI 3D assets, and for the vendor-by-vendor terms see commercial use.

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