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Meshy 5

The fifth generation of Meshy's AI 3D platform: sharper geometry, real PBR textures, and 500+ animations.

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About

Meshy 5 launched August 26, 2025 (preview announced earlier that summer) as the major successor to Meshy 4. The release notes read like a production checklist: automatic metallic/roughness/normal/base-color PBR maps, stronger image-to-3D alignment with multi-view inputs, fewer distorted or incomplete outputs, smarter prompts, real-time texture editing, and a 500+ animation library for rigged characters.

Meshy is one of the few AI 3D companies with verifiable scale: the company reports over 3 million creators and 30 million generated assets, and Andreessen Horowitz named it the only 3D tool in its list of most popular AI tools among game developers. It is a closed commercial platform — text or image in, downloadable asset out — with a public API and credits-based pricing. As with every commercial 3D generator here, there is no independent benchmark table; the quality evidence is user adoption and third-party coverage.

Specs

Context window

N/A - 3D generation model; prompt input is plain text

Pricing

Credit-based subscriptions; free trial credits for new users (check meshy.ai/pricing for current plans)

Free quota

Free trial credits for new users

API access

Yes — Meshy API for text-to-3D and image-to-3D

Weights

Closed — API only

Released

Not disclosed

Benchmarks

No published formal benchmarks; scale figures (3M creators, 30M assets) are provider-reported

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

text-to-3dimage-to-3dgame-assetscharacter-rigging3d-printing

Trust score — 8/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: August 2025 launch covered by press release; provider-reported 3M+ creators and 30M+ assets; a16z recognition as a top AI tool among game developers. Strengths: production-scale adoption, public API, PBR + rigging/animation pipeline. Docked for: (1) closed weights and service; (2) scale figures are provider-reported; (3) no independent quality benchmarks. License: proprietary commercial.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
9.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
9.0/10
Openness · license + docs
3.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · Launched August 26, 2025 (preview earlier in summer)
  • · Provider-reported: 3M+ creators, 30M+ generated assets
  • · a16z: only 3D tool in most-popular-AI-tools-among-game-devs list
  • · Public API; credit-based pricing

Sources