Meshy is the only AI 3D company on Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) new Top 50 Consumer AI Apps by Monthly Revenue, the first time the venture firm has ranked consumer AI products by what people pay for rather than by how many visit.
On October 5, a16z published the seventh edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report. Earlier editions ranked products by web traffic and mobile usage. This one adds a second list built on U.S. consumer card spending observed by data firm YipitData, so it measures what consumers actually pay for. Meshy ranks No. 31. The list opens with OpenAI, Anthropic, Canva, Superhuman and Higgsfield, and contains no other 3D product. Google’s Gemini is left out because its revenue could not be separated from the rest of Google’s.
The firm’s own reading of the spending list is that consumers keep paying for specialized creative tools even as general-purpose models get better at images and video, and that many of the creative products on it, Midjourney, HeyGen, Kling and Topaz Labs among them, run on proprietary models. Meshy fits that pattern. It trains its own multimodal models for turning text and images into 3D assets for games, film and 3D printing, and it is one of the AI 3D model generators we cover for people who print what they make.
The placement matters beyond one company. In a16z’s first ranking of what consumers pay for in AI, 3D sits alongside language, image, video and music, which suggests 3D generation has moved from curiosity to a category with paying demand.
“We’re proud to be the only AI 3D company on this list. It shows that 3D has become a category people are willing to pay for,” said Faye Pan, VP of Growth at Meshy. “Every day, artists, studios and creators use Meshy to go from idea to 3D in minutes.”
Meshy’s own numbers point the same way. The company says its annual recurring revenue has passed $100 million, and that in July 2026 it closed a Series B round of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, which it describes as the largest round to date in AI 3D. Meshy was founded by Ethan Hu, who holds a Ph.D. from MIT, and reports more than 15 million registered users.
Last month’s hands-on Meshy 7 review on this site took the tool through a real print job, from a designer’s drawings to four-color board game pawns. It is the companion piece to this ranking: the revenue says people are paying, the review says what they get for it.
Source: meshy.ai
