Luma Genie Review: Is It Still Available, and What to Use Instead

What the evidence is, and how strong it is

• Primary, but indirect: the App Store release notes for the Luma 3D Capture app, version 1.3.14, quoted above. It is Luma’s own text, in a product listing rather than a blog post or help article.
• Secondary: radiancefields.com repeats the January 1, 2026 sunset and cites the App Store notes, so it is not independent confirmation.
• Absence on Luma’s site: the page at lumalabs.ai/genie does not mention Genie in the content we read. Luma’s current products on its site are video (Ray3.2), image (Uni-1) and an agent, and its pricing page (Plus $30 a month, or $25 billed yearly; Pro $90, or $75; Ultra $300, or $250) makes no mention of Genie or 3D.
• What we did not find: an official Luma blog or help-center announcement of the sunset, and any statement on whether a web version of Genie ever returns.

An absence on a page is weaker evidence than a statement, and we cannot rule out a different Genie service we did not see. On balance, a release note saying “officially Sunset” plus a product site that no longer mentions it points one way. Recheck Luma’s pages if the decision matters.

Why you may still see Genie listed as available

Many directories and listicles still describe Genie as active, with prices such as $29.99 a month; we could not tie any such price to a Luma source. Those pages conflict with Luma’s notes. They may describe the service before the sunset, describe Luma’s wider subscription, or be copied from older pages. Do not buy anything on the strength of a listicle.

What you can still do with old Genie models

The release note says you can still export your content. Genie’s historic formats are known only fragmentarily: one read of the 1.3.7 release note (April 9, 2024) gave “Fixed issue in Genie where sometimes only the .usdz file would be exported” (a second read of the same page returned only a crash fix, so treat this wording as unconfirmed), which would imply Genie exported more than one file type but does not name the others. The version 1.3.13 note (November 17, 2025) is a plain “Exporting bugfix.” We could not find Genie’s original terms from a primary source (the only license statement found is the 2023 press line in the timeline below, which names no license), so the license on models you made with it is unconfirmed. If you need to ship them, keep the export files and any account emails, and ask Luma support in writing what rights apply. This is not legal advice.

A separate point: the sunset notice sits in the release notes of the Luma 3D Capture app, which is a capture product. Whether capture features continue is unknown from what we read, and we make no claim about them.

A timeline from the sources we could read

The sources are patchy, so each date carries its source.

• November 2023: a Radiance Fields article describes Genie as a text-to-3D research preview available only through Luma’s Discord, generating four outputs in roughly ten seconds, and calls it “completely free and commercially usable” without naming a license. The page’s metadata and byline disagree on its date (November 7, 2026 against November 21, 2023), so the 2023 date is our reading.
• January 9, 2024: Maginative reports the Genie 1.0 release alongside a $43 million Series B. It says nothing about export formats or free access.
• January 17, 2024: App Store release notes for version 1.3.1 say “Introducing Luma Genie on iOS!”
• November 17, 2025 and January 2026: version 1.3.13 is the “Exporting bugfix,” and 1.3.14 carries the sunset note (its entry shows “Jan 14” with no year).
• Radiance Fields, on the capture app: the iPhone app is still listed at 1.3.14, the Android app is no longer on Google Play, and radiance-field capture uploads were suspended in November 2024. It also reports that Luma’s separate Flythroughs app was set to close on January 1, 2026, the same date as the Genie notice. Do not confuse the two products when reading older posts.

What this means for a job: if a tutorial tells you to generate props with Genie, it predates the sunset by at least a year, and the “free and commercially usable” line comes from 2023 coverage of a research preview, not from a license you can cite for a Steam submission. Models you already exported are only as safe as your records; the Genie-era terms were not found in any primary source.

What to use instead

What a reader of “luma genie” usually wants is free or cheap text-to-3D with downloadable output. The nearest current options, with their documented catches:

• Meshy: a free plan with 100 credits a month, but Free output is CC BY 4.0, only 10 untextured downloads a month, and Meshy’s Terms say it owns Free output. Good for evaluating, not for shipping.
• Sloyd: a daily free allowance on the Guest tier (one AI 3D generation a day on its pricing page), personal use only.
• TRELLIS.2: free and MIT-licensed, but needs an NVIDIA GPU with at least 24 GB.
• Hosted open models: Tencent’s Hunyuan API gives a one-time 200-credit free allowance, and 3D AI Studio gives free credits on signup (amount not stated).

For the full free-tier picture, read free AI 3D model generators: what you actually get and free-tier licenses compared. For paid picks, see best text-to-3D tools.

Who this page is for

• Use this page if: you saw Genie in an old guide or video and want to know whether to bother. You do not.
• Look elsewhere if: you need accounts of how Genie’s meshes performed. No source we read tested its output in an engine or slicer.

How this page will be updated

The planned check is a dated recheck of Luma’s site and app notes. If Luma announces anything, the update will be dated in the corrections log. Our methodology covers how we handle conflicting sources.

More generators are listed in the AI 3D generator reviews hub.