Meshy Pricing vs Pay Per Use: Meshes by the Month

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Visual Sandbox vs Meshy

One sells a hundred meshes a month. One sells one mesh.

In short

  • Meshy plans run $20 to $100 a month for 1,000 to 8,000 credits, about 100 to 800 assets.
  • At full use that is about $0.20 a mesh on Pro. Hunyuan 3D 3.1 is $0.63 a mesh here.
  • Free gives 100 credits a month under a CC BY licence.
  • Meshy has a CLI, an MCP server and plugins for every engine. So do we, minus the plugins.

Our take. Use Meshy if you make dozens of meshes a month and want the toolchain. Use Visual Sandbox for the odd mesh with no plan.

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Meshy logoMeshy

Meshy is the best known text and image to 3D service: its own models, texturing, rigging, animation, a 3D agent, an API, an MCP server, a CLI and engine plugins.

Pricing
$20 to $100 a month, in credits
Free plan
100 credits a month, CC BY 4.0
Also does
Texturing, rigging, animation, a 3D agent, plugins

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Meshy

Visual Sandbox compared with Meshy, question by question
What is comparedVisual SandboxMeshy logoMeshy
What you pay forEach generationA monthly credit plan
What the balance is inMoney. One credit is one centCredits. About 10 for the cheapest asset
Free tierNone. A $10 minimum top up100 credits a month, 10 assets, CC BY 4.0, Meshy 6 Lite downloads
Cheapest paid tierThere is no planPro, $20 a month, or $240 a year
A month you make nothing$0The plan price. Credits do not accumulate
The price before you runA dollar figure on every model page, before you sign inAsset counts per plan, on the pricing page
Working as a teamNot offeredStudio, $70 a month, $10 a member, shared credits
From the terminal or an agentA CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balanceA REST API, an MCP server, a CLI and engine plugins, on plan credits
The catalogue37 modelsMeshy 6 and 6 Lite, plus a 3D agent. Its own only

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Meshy alternative?

Where we win

No subscription
Nothing to cancel. A quiet month costs $0.
A dollar price before you sign in
Hunyuan 3D 3.1 reads $0.63 a mesh. That is the whole price list for 3D.
The balance does not expire
Meshy's plan credits do not accumulate. Ours never reset.
Three doors an agent can use
The CLI, the MCP server and the API, on the same balance as the web app.
Image, video and audio too
Nano Banana 2 at $0.09, Veo 3.1 at $0.25 a second, in the same balance as the mesh.

Where Meshy wins

Cheaper per mesh at full use
About $0.20 on Pro and $0.125 on Ultra, against our $0.63.
The whole toolchain
Texturing, remeshing, rigging, an animation library of 500 clips, and a 3D agent.
Plugins everywhere
Blender, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Maya, 3ds Max, Roblox Studio and the slicers.
A CLI and an MCP server
Both in the footer, next to the REST API.
A free plan
100 credits a month and ten downloads, under CC BY 4.0.

Worth checking

Full use is the condition
Pro at $20 for 100 assets is $0.20 each. Make 20 and it is $1.00. Make none and it is $20.
Ten credits is the cheapest asset
'Up to 100 assets' on 1,000 credits. Higher settings cost more, and the page does not say how much.
No yearly discount in the FAQ
$20 a month or $240 a year. A promo timer can lower it for a while.
The live page shows your currency
A Canadian visitor sees CA$. The USD figures here come from Meshy's own FAQ.
We have one 3D model
Hunyuan 3D 3.1, no texturing pass, no rigging, no animation library.

Allowance or balance

Move the slider. The plan moves in steps.

Meshy's individual plans, priced by the month, against our balance, counted in meshes. Meshy's own asset counts set the rungs.

  • Pro covers about 100 meshes. The 101st costs a Premium plan, at **$40**.
  • In a month you make nothing, we cost **$0** and the plan still bills.
  • Fill any Meshy plan and it beats our **$0.63** a mesh. Below about 32 meshes, Pro does not.

Meshy resets the allowance every month. Our balance carries.

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What a month costs

Visual Sandbox
$25.20
Meshy, billed monthly · Pro
$20.00

Pro is cheaper by

$5.20

The money

The break even, per mesh

Meshy prints how many assets each plan covers, so the arithmetic is short: divide the plan price by the count.

$0.63

Visual Sandbox

Hunyuan 3D 3.1, a mesh, in any month.

$0.20

Meshy Pro

$20 for up to 100 assets, at full use.

$0.125

Meshy Ultra

$100 for up to 800 assets, at full use.

Meshy planA monthCredits a monthAssets a monthConcurrent
Free$0100Up to 101
Pro$201,000Up to 10010
Premium$403,000Up to 30030
Ultra$1008,000Up to 800100
Studio$70, plus $10 a member5,500 sharedUp to 55060
  • The break even on Pro is about 32 meshes. Below that, $20 buys fewer meshes than $0.63 each would here. Above it, Meshy wins.
  • Meshy's FAQ prices the plans in USD: Pro $20 a month or $240 a year, Premium $40, Ultra $100, Studio $70 with one member. A new user gets 50% off the first month.
  • Twenty dollars here buys 31 meshes, in any month, and the leftover keeps.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names Meshy when Meshy is the right call.

01 of 04

How many meshes a month?

Or use both

Meshy covers the 3D pipeline at volume. We cover the odd mesh and everything that is not 3D.

  1. 01

    Put the steady mesh work on a Meshy plan, with the engine plugin.

  2. 02

    Make the odd mesh here in a quiet month, at $0.63.

  3. 03

    Run images, video and audio here, on the same balance.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

  • You need a mesh now and then, next to your images and video.
  • You want a per mesh cost you can put on an invoice.
  • You want an agent to generate through the CLI or the MCP server on the same balance.
  • You want the price before you sign in.
  • You do not want another subscription.

Meshy logoPick Meshy when

  • You make dozens of meshes a month.
  • You rig, animate and retexture in one tool.
  • You work inside Blender, Unity, Unreal or Godot with a plugin.
  • You want a 3D agent to drive the pipeline.
  • You want a free plan to try, under CC BY 4.0.

Read the price, then run it

37 models across image, video, audio, 3D and vector. Each one prints its dollar price before you sign in.

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Free gives 100 credits a month. Pro is $20 a month, or $240 a year, for 1,000 credits and up to 100 assets. Premium is $40 for 3,000 and up to 300. Ultra is $100 for 8,000 and up to 800. Studio is $70 a month with one member and $10 a month per extra member, for 5,500 shared credits.