Tripo AI

Tripo AI (VAST AI Research) is an AI 3D content platform that converts text, images, and multi-view photographs into production-ready 3D assets. The platform exposes a REST API at api.tripo3d.ai that orchestrates a unified "task" abstraction across text-to-3D, image-to-3D, multi-view-to-3D, AI texturing, mesh segmentation, model refinement, stylization, format conversion, automatic rigging, retargeting, and one-shot animation. An official Python SDK, an MCP server, and engine plugins for Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, ComfyUI, Cocos, and Godot wrap the API for creative and game pipelines. Open-source research artifacts (TripoSR, TripoSG, UniRig) ship separately on GitHub under the VAST-AI-Research organization.

Tripo AI publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include 3D, Generative AI, 3D Modeling, Text-to-3D, and Image-to-3D.

Tripo AI’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, pricing, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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24.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
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3D Generative AI 3D Modeling Text-to-3D Image-to-3DRiggingAnimation Texturing Game Development Creative Tools

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Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 18

Access Clarity 9.5 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Open Source Surface 2.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tripo OpenAPI Task API

Unified task API for all Tripo generative 3D operations. A single POST creates an asynchronous task keyed by task_type (text_to_model, image_to_model, multiview_to_model, textur...

Tripo OpenAPI Upload API

Upload endpoint for source assets (reference images, multi-view image sets, base meshes) consumed by downstream tasks. Returns a handle that is passed into subsequent task creat...

Tripo OpenAPI User Balance API

Returns the calling API key's remaining credit balance and any frozen credits held against in-flight tasks. Used by client integrations to surface usage and gate expensive opera...

Tripo Webhook

Server-to-server webhook delivery of task lifecycle events. Customers register a callback URL and receive notifications when a Tripo task transitions to a terminal state, removi...

Tripo Python SDK

Official Python SDK wrapping the Tripo OpenAPI. Provides synchronous and asynchronous clients, typed task helpers, balance retrieval, and file-upload utilities. Auth via TRIPO_A...

Tripo MCP Server

Official Model Context Protocol server that exposes Tripo generation tasks as MCP tools, allowing MCP-aware AI clients (Claude Desktop, IDEs, agents) to invoke text-to-3D, image...

Tripo Blender Plugin

Official Blender extension that wraps the Tripo API so Blender users can generate, texture, refine, and import 3D models directly into a Blender scene from inside the editor.

Tripo ComfyUI Custom Nodes

Official ComfyUI custom node pack that exposes Tripo task types as composable nodes inside ComfyUI graphs for AI-driven 3D pipelines.

TripoSR (Open Source)

Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction model released by VAST AI Research in collaboration with Stability AI. Distributed as model weights and inference code; complementary ...

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tripo Ai Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tripo Ai Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tripo Ai Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tripo Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

Discord

Discord

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Developer

Developer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tripo-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tripo-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Tripo AI
type: Index
kind: company
description: Tripo AI (VAST AI Research) is an AI 3D content platform that converts text, images, and multi-view photographs
  into production-ready 3D assets. The platform exposes a REST API at api.tripo3d.ai that orchestrates a unified "task" abstraction
  across text-to-3D, image-to-3D, multi-view-to-3D, AI texturing, mesh segmentation, model refinement, stylization, format
  conversion, automatic rigging, retargeting, and one-shot animation. An official Python SDK, an MCP server, and engine plugins
  for Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, ComfyUI, Cocos, and Godot wrap the API for creative and game pipelines. Open-source research
  artifacts (TripoSR, TripoSG, UniRig) ship separately on GitHub under the VAST-AI-Research organization.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tripo-ai.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
position: Direct
tags:
- 3D
- Generative AI
- 3D Modeling
- Text-to-3D
- Image-to-3D
- Rigging
- Animation
- Texturing
- Game Development
- Creative Tools
tags_raw:
- 3D
- Generative AI
- 3D Modeling
- Text to 3D
- Image to 3D
- Rigging
- Animation
- Texturing
- Game Development
- Creative Tools
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tripo-ai:openapi-task
  name: Tripo OpenAPI Task API
  description: Unified task API for all Tripo generative 3D operations. A single POST creates an asynchronous task keyed by
    task_type (text_to_model, image_to_model, multiview_to_model, texture_model, refine_model, stylize_model, convert_model,
    mesh_segmentation, animate_prerigcheck, animate_rig, animate_retarget). Tasks are polled via task_id; results include
    downloadable model URLs, previews, and metadata.
  humanURL: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.tripo3d.ai/v2/openapi
  tags:
  - Task
  - Generative 3D
  - Async
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  - Generative 3D
  - Async
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
- aid: tripo-ai:openapi-upload
  name: Tripo OpenAPI Upload API
  description: Upload endpoint for source assets (reference images, multi-view image sets, base meshes) consumed by downstream
    tasks. Returns a handle that is passed into subsequent task creation calls.
  humanURL: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.tripo3d.ai/v2/openapi
  tags:
  - Upload
  - Assets
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
- aid: tripo-ai:openapi-balance
  name: Tripo OpenAPI User Balance API
  description: Returns the calling API key's remaining credit balance and any frozen credits held against in-flight tasks.
    Used by client integrations to surface usage and gate expensive operations.
  humanURL: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.tripo3d.ai/v2/openapi
  tags:
  - Account
  - Billing
  - Credits
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
- aid: tripo-ai:webhook
  name: Tripo Webhook
  description: Server-to-server webhook delivery of task lifecycle events. Customers register a callback URL and receive notifications
    when a Tripo task transitions to a terminal state, removing the need to poll task status.
  humanURL: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
  baseURL: customer-configured
  tags:
  - Webhook
  - Event
  - Callbacks
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  - Callbacks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
- aid: tripo-ai:python-sdk
  name: Tripo Python SDK
  description: Official Python SDK wrapping the Tripo OpenAPI. Provides synchronous and asynchronous clients, typed task helpers,
    balance retrieval, and file-upload utilities. Auth via TRIPO_API_KEY environment variable or explicit constructor argument.
  humanURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk
  baseURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Python
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk
- aid: tripo-ai:mcp-server
  name: Tripo MCP Server
  description: Official Model Context Protocol server that exposes Tripo generation tasks as MCP tools, allowing MCP-aware
    AI clients (Claude Desktop, IDEs, agents) to invoke text-to-3D, image-to-3D, and related workflows.
  humanURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-mcp
  baseURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Artificial Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-mcp
- aid: tripo-ai:blender-plugin
  name: Tripo Blender Plugin
  description: Official Blender extension that wraps the Tripo API so Blender users can generate, texture, refine, and import
    3D models directly into a Blender scene from inside the editor.
  humanURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-3d-for-blender
  baseURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-3d-for-blender
  tags:
  - Plugin
  - Blender
  - DCC
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-3d-for-blender
- aid: tripo-ai:comfyui-nodes
  name: Tripo ComfyUI Custom Nodes
  description: Official ComfyUI custom node pack that exposes Tripo task types as composable nodes inside ComfyUI graphs for
    AI-driven 3D pipelines.
  humanURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/ComfyUI-Tripo
  baseURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/ComfyUI-Tripo
  tags:
  - Plugin
  - ComfyUI
  - Workflows
  tags_raw:
  - Plugin
  - ComfyUI
  - Workflow
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/ComfyUI-Tripo
- aid: tripo-ai:triposr
  name: TripoSR (Open Source)
  description: Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction model released by VAST AI Research in collaboration with Stability
    AI. Distributed as model weights and inference code; complementary to the hosted Tripo API.
  humanURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR
  baseURL: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR
  tags:
  - Open-Source
  - Research
  - 3D Reconstruction
  tags_raw:
  - Open Source
  - Research
  - 3D Reconstruction
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk/releases
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-python-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tripo-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tripo3d.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/docs
- type: Developer
  url: https://www.tripo3d.ai/api
- type: Signup
  url: https://platform.tripo3d.ai/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.tripo3d.ai/pricing
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research
- type: Discord
  url: https://discord.gg/tripoai
- url: https://www.tripo3d.ai/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com

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