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title: "Meshy 7.1: workflow fit, costs and terms"
description: "Turning non-explicit reference images into meshes with optional multi-view and texture controls"
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# Meshy 7.1

Turning non-explicit reference images into meshes with optional multi-view and texture controls

- **Availability**: available
- **Where it runs**: hosted
- **Costs**: Free and paid web-app plans; API generation uses prepaid credits, with charges that depend on the selected options.
- **Adult content policy**: restricted

Meshy 7.1 is a practical candidate for turning approved prop or clothed-character references into 3D assets. Its image and multi-image APIs let you supply different views of the same design and guide the texture with reference images or a prompt. Pin meshy-7.1 and save your inputs and settings when consistency matters; latest can change. Meshy retains 7 as a deprecated API identifier. The web app and API differ in documented support, particularly for text-to-3D, so choose your route before building a workflow around it. Inspect the exported silhouette, materials, topology, deformation and performance in your target game before accepting an asset. Generation quality and cleanup time remain unbenchmarked here.

## Commercial use & license

Proprietary hosted model. Meshy states that paid-plan assets remain privately owned if your inputs respect others' copyrights and you do not publish the assets to the Meshy Community. Free-plan output uses CC BY 4.0. That output license does not include the model weights.

## Adult content rules

Meshy prohibits creating, uploading or sharing pornographic material. For adult-game work, consider it for non-explicit props, environments and clothed character references that meet its policy.

[Read the policy](https://www.meshy.ai/acceptable-use-policy)

## What you need

Meshy account; a plan with API-key access and credits for API use; reference assets you have rights to use; a 3D editor such as Blender for inspection and cleanup.

Ranks are recommendations for the task described, based on reviewed documentation. Model ranks cover non-explicit development work. We have not run practical benchmarks. Check content policies and commercial terms separately. [How the ranks work](https://bestadultgames.io/en/developers/methodology.md)

### Sources & further reading

- [Meshy September 2026 API changes](https://docs.meshy.ai/en/api/changelog)
- [Meshy model comparison](https://help.meshy.ai/en/articles/15697060-meshy-7-vs-meshy-6-vs-meshy-6-lite-which-ai-model-should-you-use)
- [Meshy output ownership](https://help.meshy.ai/en/articles/10137554-what-is-the-ownership-of-the-generated-models)
- [Meshy AUP](https://www.meshy.ai/acceptable-use-policy)

Last checked 5 October 2026.

## Why consider it

- Image-to-3D accepts a texture prompt or reference image
- Multi-image input supports different views of one asset
- Export GLB, FBX or OBJ for inspection and editing in a 3D tool

## Tradeoffs to plan for

- Pornographic material is prohibited
- Text-to-3D support differs between the API documentation and web-app help
- Generation quality and cleanup time have not been benchmarked here

The tier reflects documented fit for the workflow described here and availability. No numeric score or hands-on performance results are provided.

[Compare with other models](https://bestadultgames.io/en/developers/compare?model=meshy-7-1)

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