Tripo pricing, free plan and limits

Last updated: 2026-10-13

Launched in 2023 by VAST, Tripo turns text, one image or up to four views into textured 3D meshes with PBR materials. Its HD model reaches 2 million polygons, while Smart Mesh produces quad or triangle topology sized for game engines. Results export as GLB, FBX, OBJ, USD, STL and 3MF files.

About Tripo

Tripo is made by VAST, a company founded in 2023 whose leadership includes CEO Simon Song, Chief Scientist Yanpei Cao and CTO Ding Liang. DealStreetAsia reported on 2 September 2026 that VAST raised about 3 billion yuan (US$446.4 million) in Series B and B+ rounds led by MPCi, alongside the preview of its P2.0 model. The terms and privacy policy name Holymolly Limited as the operator, and the product line is split between Tripo Studio, a web workspace, and the Tripo API.

You give Tripo a text prompt, a single image or several views of an object, and it returns a mesh with PBR materials. Studio offers two routes: a high-detail model aimed at rendering, VFX and sculpt-first work, and Smart Mesh, which targets clean topology for real-time engines. The P2.0 version of Smart Mesh separates body, clothing and accessories into independent parts and can regenerate one selected region through Mesh Edit instead of redoing the whole model. After generation, built-in steps handle segmentation, retopology, texturing, rigging and format conversion before export.

The people it fits best are game artists who want props and characters without a hand retopology pass, makers who print models from photos or concept art, and e-commerce teams that need a textured preview from a product photo. Images made in FLUX or Midjourney work as input, and Tripo's own paid plans list Midjourney among their image-generation options. Among HokAI's media generation tools, the nearest rivals for single assets are Rodin plus the open-weight Hunyuan 3D family from Tencent. Interactive design work points to Spline instead, while Marble handles whole environments and Project Genie suits wandering a prompted world rather than exporting files.

Tripo runs only as a hosted, closed-source service. VAST does publish research code on GitHub, though: TripoSR, an MIT-licensed single-image reconstruction model, has passed 7,000 stars, and the organisation also hosts a Blender add-on, SDKs in several languages and an official MCP server. The pricing page states ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, a vendor-stated ISO 27001 claim that a procurement team should ask to see evidence for.

Pricing

Free plan at $0 with 200 monthly credits. Pro is $20 a month with 3,000 credits, Max is $90 a month with 25,000 credits, and Team is $110 a month per seat on monthly billing, shown as $55 per seat on the annual toggle. 09 per model, which do not equal plan price divided by models, so budget from credits and confirm the checkout total.

Extra credits sell in four packs, from $10 for 1,000 credits up to $1,000 for 100,000 credits plus a 30,000 bonus. 1 model costs 20 to 40 credits. ai in October 2026.

For a price-ladder comparison, open Rodin first, then Hunyuan 3D.

Key Features

• Text, image and multiview input: A task takes a text prompt, one image or several views, and Smart Mesh P2.0 accepts front, left, right and back reference images together.
• High-detail model: Face counts reach 2 million on the v3.1 model, which VAST positions for rendering, VFX, 3D printing and sculpt-first pipelines.
• Quad and triangle Smart Mesh: Smart Mesh P2.0 outputs quads from 500 to 25,000 faces or triangles from 500 to 50,000, with up to four polycount variants from one generation.
• Part separation and Mesh Edit: P2.0 splits body, clothing and accessories into separate pieces, and Mesh Edit regenerates one selected region while the rest stays untouched.
• PBR texturing: Texture generation writes albedo, normal, metallic and roughness maps, and 8K textures are limited on Free and Pro but unlimited on Max and Team.
• Rigging and animation: Characters and creatures get a skeleton in one Auto Rig step, and the API retargets more than 100 preset motions onto the rig.
• Print-ready segmentation: Smart Segmentation splits a large model into parts that fit a print bed, with STL, 3MF and OBJ export for slicers.
• Engine bridges and API: Bridge plugins cover Blender, 3ds Max, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Cocos, Godot, ZBrush and Roblox, and the v3 API adds webhook callbacks plus a tripo-cli package installed through npm.

Pros

• VAST publishes research code under open licences, including the MIT-licensed TripoSR with more than 7,000 GitHub stars, so parts of the technology behind the product can be inspected.
• The Terms of User Agreement give paid users the rights in their inputs and outputs and say the company will not use them as training data for AI technology.
• Public review volume is high for a 3D generator: Trustpilot lists 644 reviews for Studio at 4.8, and the reviews quoted on the vendor page mention clean geometry and quick turnaround.
• Edit history is permanent on Max and Team, so a studio can return to an old generation, where Free keeps one day.

Cons

• Free-plan models are public and for non-commercial use only, and the terms give Tripo all rights over what free accounts submit and generate, so any client project needs a paid plan from the start.
• Credit costs stack quickly: one generation with the newest Smart Mesh model totals 100 credits from its base and add-on, so a Pro month yields about 30 such meshes, far fewer than the plan summary's model estimate implies.
• Unseen sides of a single photo are guessed by the model: an April 2026 Trustpilot reviewer who prints models from photographs said hidden areas are invented, and multi-view input exists to reduce that.
• Tripo's official MCP repository is marked alpha, drives only Blender and was last pushed in April 2025, so agent workflows are better served by the newer command-line tool and the API.

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