Tripo Pricing and Credits Explained

What the sources say about plans

What Tripo’s own text confirms about plans is limited. Its API FAQ says a Studio subscription does not cover the API: they “operate under separate billing systems and require separate purchases.” Its Terms (last updated July 11, 2025) say subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current fee, that fees are stated in U.S. dollars unless the checkout says otherwise and are “non-cancelable, non-refundable,” that overdue amounts carry a late fee of 5% per day, and that cancelling stops renewal while the current term runs out. Plan names, prices and credit grants are not in anything we could read.

Reported by a search snippet of the official pricing page, not read directly:

Conflicts we could not resolve:

• A snippet of Tripo’s product doc “Pricing & Credits” lists Professional at $13/mo annual, Max at $45/mo annual, and Team at 30,000 credits per seat with a three-seat minimum. If the three-seat figure is right, 30,000 x 3 would explain the 90,000 above, but that is our inference.
• Free credits are reported as 200 on the pricing page and as 300 or 600 on other pages labelled Basic.
• Third-party pages quote Pro anywhere from $11.94 to $19.90, which may reflect different billing periods or older prices.

Enterprise API pricing is by contact, per the developer site.

Credits per operation (confirmed from the API docs)

These come from the API price list at developers.tripo3d.ai/en/pricing, which we could read, and apply to API use at 1 credit = $0.01, paid through Stripe from $1. The China mainland site (developers.tripo3d.com) lists the same credit counts at ¥0.07 each and takes Alipay. Studio’s per-operation costs could not be read.

• Images: 5 to 20 credits at base quality, depending on model and resolution; 20 to 50 at the chat_image high, xhigh and max quality tiers. Image to Multiview 10; Edit Multiview 5 per edited image.
• Generation: see the per-model tables below. Add-ons stack on the base: HD texture +10, 8K texture +20, HD geometry +20, quad mesh +5, smart low-poly +10, generate parts +20.
• Texture: Fast or Standard 10, HD 20, 8K 30. Format Convert: Basic 5, Advanced 10 (any non-default quad, face limit, flatten-bottom, texture size or format, pivot or scale setting). Retopology: v3.0 35 (40 quad), v2.0 30, v1.0 10. Smart UV 20. Segmentation 40. Part Completion 50, or 30 for Quick Cap. Smart Segmentation 85 from an image, 55 from a model.
• Rig Check free; Auto Rig 25; Animation Retarget 10 per animation.

The API site’s homepage gives shorter ranges (Text to 3D 10 to 20, Image to 3D 20 to 30), which match only H-series jobs without texture or with standard texture. Detailed and 8K textures, add-ons and P2 all cost more. The billing page says failed and cancelled tasks are not charged, and the API FAQ says credits “do not expire and remain valid indefinitely.” Whether Studio credits work the same way is not stated in anything we could read.

Per-model credit tables from the developer docs

Tripo’s H3.1 and P2 model pages publish per-model tables. The credit counts are the same on developers.tripo3d.ai, which prices them in dollars for international accounts, and developers.tripo3d.com, which serves China mainland accounts at “1 credit = ¥0.07 CNY” through Alipay. Neither site lists subscription tiers.

H3.1 add-ons: detailed geometry +20, quad mesh +5, smart low-poly +10, generate in parts +20 (parts requires texture off). The P2 page notes premium topology options cost extra without giving amounts. Retopology is priced by version: v3.0 is 35 credits (40 for quad), v2.0 is 30, and v1.0 is 10 and basic decimation only. Auto Rig is 25 credits on both price lists.

The P2 price is the surprise. It is 100 credits before texture against 20 for H3.1 image to 3D (5 times), and 110 against 30 with standard texture (about 3.7 times), so choosing the model that outputs native quads multiplies the generation cost by roughly four to five on these tables. Whether that beats generating on H3.1 and paying for retopology (35 to 40 credits) depends on how clean H3.1 meshes are, and no source we read measures that.

Billing rules from the docs: credits are frozen when a task is created and “failed and cancelled tasks are not charged.” The API FAQ says credits “do not expire and remain valid indefinitely,” and the Terms call API credits “prepaid and non-refundable once purchased.” Concurrency defaults, per account and category, are H series 10, P series 5, image generation 1, animation 10, model processing 5 and mesh operations 10, with higher limits by contacting support, and the quick-start says “do not exceed 1 request/second.”

Worked example: one rigged character with labeled inputs

Assumptions (ours, for planning; not measurements): one attempt per character, no retries, standard texture, the character is a biped, and each credit costs $0.01 on the API. All figures come from Tripo’s API price list and model pages, so this is API pricing only; Studio’s per-operation costs could not be read.

Retarget is listed at 10 credits per animation, so ten animations on one rig add 100 credits, about as much as route B’s generation step. A task that succeeds but gives an unusable mesh is still charged, so each discarded attempt adds the full generation line again. Do not divide a reported Studio plan price by its credit grant and apply the result to this table: Studio is billed separately and its per-operation costs are unread, so an API credit and a Studio credit may not buy the same thing.

Checking the arithmetic against Meshy

Meshy’s credits are a different unit with a different price; do not compare credit counts across vendors. Compare dollars per finished asset, as set out in cost per usable asset, and see Meshy pricing and credits and the Meshy vs Tripo comparison. The credit calculator page runs that arithmetic with your own numbers.

Which plan, given what we know

• If you want to learn the toolchain: a free account, or a small API top-up from $1. Free output comes with fewer rights, as the Tripo review sets out, so read that section and the current Terms before you ship anything made on a free account.
• If you will script rigging and retopology: the API, where every price is published and the worked example above applies.
• If you work in the Studio app: the reported Pro tier is the first to price out, but confirm its price, credit grant and per-operation costs on Tripo’s page. Comparing a Studio plan with API rates needs those costs, which we could not read. For large API volumes, the API site offers custom pricing by contact.

What is unknown

Fetched confirmation of every Studio plan price and credit grant, Studio’s per-operation credit costs, whether Studio credits expire or roll over, the free-plan credit amount and history retention, and whether the pricing page or product doc is the current source. Check tripo3d.ai/pricing in your own browser and save a dated screenshot. Our planned monthly price check will replace this page’s snippets with dated captures once the site is readable.

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