3DTextures.me vs Poly Haven

3DTextures.me is a web library of free seamless PBR and stylized textures for digital art projects. Texture posts can include Diffuse, Normal, Metallic, Displacement, Roughness, and Ambient Occlusion maps, with downloads in PNG and SBS/SBSAR formats. The site says the textures work with Unity, Unreal, Godot, Blender, Maya, and 3DSMax. They are licensed CC0, allowing commercial use without attribution; redistribution is allowed, but users may not claim authorship. The Free textures plan costs nothing and requires one-by-one downloads. Supporters can receive a link for downloading all textures, while support of 3 or more coffees includes a 4K textures folder and other textures. A supporter-only interactive library provides previews and filters by name and date added. The site also offers Align Tools for Blender, and its FAQ directs questions to a contact form.

Poly Haven is a curated public library of HDRIs, textures, and 3D models for visual effects artists and game designers. Its assets use a CC0 license and can be used commercially. The library describes its HDRIs as 16k+ resolution and unclipped, and its photoscanned seamless PBR textures as at least 8k. The public collection costs nothing, with no paywall or signup required. A Blender add-on brings assets into the software's asset browser and provides organized catalogs, resolution switching, automatic texture scaling, and one-click displacement setup. Poly Haven also offers an API whose default endpoints are free for personal, academic, and commercial use without login or an API key. Live API users must provide clear attribution and a unique User-Agent header. The organization says its assets are made by humans, avoiding generative AI and overreliance on procedural methods. Optional paid offerings include Vault access for $3 a month, a Blender add-on via Patreon for $5 a month, or an identical add-on via Superhive for $49, paid once.