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Meshy AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

3D generative AI toolbox for creating models from text or images, with AI texturing, auto-rigging and an API.

27M visits/mo8.2K saves
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Cascadeur
✓ verifiedFreemium

3D keyframe animation tool with AI posing and physics; strong for game and character work, with free, indie and pro licenses.

225K visits/mo2.7K saves
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DeepMotion
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI motion capture and 3D animation from video/text; well-known tool.

268K visits/mo41K saves
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Spline
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser-based collaborative 3D design tool for building and exporting interactive 3D/2D experiences to web, iOS and Android.

818K visits/mo12K saves
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Hitem3D
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI generator that turns images into print-ready, high-detail 3D models with PBR textures for makers and studios.

1.1M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

Freemium: Free
Starter: $9
Professional: $39
Studio: $83
Free: $0/month (limited files, watermarked web exports)
Starter: $12/seat/month billed annually or $15/month billed monthly (unlimited files, no watermark)
Professional: $20/seat/month billed annually or $25/month billed monthly (video/code export, unlimited variables/APIs), plus optional AI add-on at +$5/seat/month for 2,000 AI credits

No public pricing

Core features
  • Text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation
  • AI PBR texturing for existing models
  • Auto-rigging and character animation
  • AI multi-view image generation
  • API and plugins for Blender, Unity and Bambu Studio
  • Export in common 3D formats
  • AI AutoPosing for faster natural poses
  • AutoPhysics for realistic motion
  • Quick rigging and standard-skeleton support
  • Animation unbaking to make baked clips editable
  • Video motion capture and secondary motion
  • FBX/DAE/USD compatibility
  • AI-powered motion capture
  • Real-time body tracking
  • Video to 3D animation conversion
  • Text to 3D animation conversion
  • Real-time collaborative 3D editor with primitives and modeling tools
  • Layer-based materials and a ready-made material library
  • Interactivity/animation via states, events and physics
  • Multi-platform export to web, iOS and Android
  • 2D design canvas (Hana) with vector networks and effects
  • AI 3D generation, texture generation and style transfer add-on
  • Variables, APIs and webhooks for dynamic data
  • Image-to-3D model generation
  • Print-ready clean mesh and sharp edges
  • 4K PBR AI texturing and de-lighting
  • Hidden-structure reconstruction
  • Multi-format export (FBX, GLB, OBJ, STL, USDZ)
  • One-click send to 3D slicers
Use cases
  • Generate game-ready 3D assets fast
  • Create models for 3D printing
  • Texture and animate existing 3D models
  • Integrate 3D generation into a product pipeline
  • Animate game and film characters
  • Clean up and edit motion-capture data
  • Retarget animations between characters
  • Creating 3D animations for game characters
  • Generating animations for augmented reality applications
  • Producing animations for virtual reality experiences
  • Animating MetaHumans with video
  • Creating digital human motion from text
  • Designers adding interactive 3D elements to websites
  • Product teams prototyping 3D UI or product visualizations
  • Brand/marketing teams creating animated 3D visuals
  • Agencies building AR/XR or gamified web experiences
  • 3D printing from images
  • Game and film asset creation
  • Art and sculpture modeling
  • Rapid concept prototyping
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