3D AI Studio vs Polycam

3D AI Studio generates 3D models from text prompts or uploaded images. It also provides AI image generation and editing, texturing, quad remeshing, animation tools, and a built-in render engine. Flow is a node-based canvas for chaining image, text, 3D, video, and batch steps into reusable workflows. Users can choose Prism engines or external engines including Meshy, Tripo, Rodin, and Hunyuan. Exports include FBX, GLB, OBJ, STL, 3MF, USDZ, and BLEND for Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, or 3D printers. New users receive free credits without a credit card; image-to-3D and text-to-3D cost 20 credits each, while Texture AI, Remesh, and LOD generation are free. The REST API uses pay-as-you-go credits, asynchronous polling, and a default limit of three requests per minute per key. Generated assets are described as private, user-owned, and commercially usable. Browser and API access are available.

Polycam is AI reality capture software for professionals who document, measure and design. It uses AI-assisted photogrammetry and LiDAR to capture spaces, construction sites, facilities, products and materials in 3D, and it can create shareable 3D object models. Users can generate customizable 2D floor plans; paid plans also list instant 3D and editable 2D floor plans. Drone footage can be processed into expansive 3D models. Polycam is available on Android, iOS and web browsers, though Space Mode scanning is limited to compatible iOS devices. Listed exports include GLTF, OBJ, FBX, DAE, STL, USDZ, point cloud formats and DXF; named workflows include Blender, Unity, SketchUp and Xactimate. Free access has limited space, object and AI captures, with GLTF exports and public link sharing. Basic costs $150 a year, equivalent to $12.50 per month when billed yearly. Seven-day trials are offered with annual Basic and Business plans, but not monthly plans or Enterprise. Business is listed at $400 a year and Enterprise at $1,200 a year.