Hunyuan3D
free, self-hostable, genuinely good pbr materials — and licensed nowhere in the eu, the uk or south korea.
the best open-weight output here by some distance, under a licence that simply does not apply where a large share of its likely users live.
version 2.1 added a dedicated pbr material model producing physically-based maps with metallic reflections and subsurface scattering — the only open-weight option here matching hosted products on texture quality. weights are free to download and self-host, and third-party inference hosts price generations at a few cents.
the licence is the problem, and it is the same one tencent's video model carries. the text states that it does not apply in the european union, the united kingdom or south korea, and defines the licensed territory as worldwide excluding those three. self-hosting doesn't route around it — the restriction is on the licence grant itself. we confirmed the wording is unchanged between 2.0 and 2.1.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai 3d generation models
- pricing
- free (self-hosted)
- website
- github.com
the best open-weight output here by some distance, under a licence that simply does not apply where a large share of its likely users live.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.