Tripo v3
3D Available Full comparison ↗ tripo-ai/tripo · by Tripo AI
· feed-forward-3d-reconstruction
Pricing — 1 offering(s)
Text-to-3D (untextured mesh)
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Text/Image-to-3D (with texture)
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Standalone texture pass (HD)
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Retopology (Smart Mesh v2)
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Auto-rigging
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Part segmentation
- $0.010 / credit Historical 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-02
- $0.010 / credit Current 2026-09-03 → present
Showing the active price and any recorded history. Full pricing history is available via the paid API — see API docs.
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Config | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Arena (community blind-pairwise Elo) | — | Tripo v3.1 ranked #1 on the community 3D Arena leaderboard as of 2026-08-03 (186,939 votes; seasons reset to 1000 Elo). Preference signal, not a geometry metric — but it is the only cross-model independent 3D-gen benchmark that exists. | source ↗ |
Operator guidance
The default pick for cost-sensitive, high-volume 3D asset generation with the widest built-in operation set (geometry + texture + retopo + rig + segmentation) and the cheapest credit rate ($0.01). Choose Rodin instead when maximum fidelity / polygon budget matters more than speed or cost; choose Meshy 7 when image-to-3D geometry alignment specifically is the priority; choose Hunyuan3D via an aggregator when you want open-weights and the lowest per-generation price and don't need rig/segmentation.
Use cases
- Game asset production — fast iteration, game-ready topology via P1.0
- Rapid prototyping / concept-to-3D from a text prompt
- Rigged character assets without a separate rigging tool
- Batch asset generation against the pay-as-you-go API
Limitations
- Architecture undisclosed; quality claims are largely vendor-reported
- 3D Arena rank is a community preference signal, not a geometry/texture metric
- V2 API endpoints retire 2026-11-01 — migrate to v3.x
- No free API credits on the current developer pricing page
- Credit->USD rate and per-operation credit counts read from a JS-rendered page; treat as estimated
Citations
- Tripo Developers — pricing
- Tripo platform docs — generation
- 3D Arena — community 3D-generation Elo leaderboard — Tripo v3.1 ranked #1 as of 2026-08.