Licence
Last updated 30 October 2026
In short: every model on 3DGarden is free, for personal and commercial work. Use it, change it, put it in something you sell. The one thing you may not do is charge anyone for the model files themselves.
What you get
When you download a model from 3DGarden, by the website, the API or the MCP server, you receive a free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use it as set out on this page. It covers the model in every format and colourway we offer, and anything you convert or derive from it.
This licence applies to every model on the site, including models you downloaded or bought before the site became free. Where an earlier licence was narrower, this one replaces it.
Allowed
- Using the models in personal, educational and commercial projects, as many times as you like and in as many projects as you like.
- Modifying them in any way: remeshing, retexturing, recolouring, rigging, animating, cutting them up or combining them with other work.
- Putting them in things you sell or that earn money: games, apps, websites, films, adverts, renders, illustrations, merchandise, client work, and paid tutorials or courses that show them.
- Shipping them inside a game, app or other product, as part of that product, even when the files can be extracted from it.
- Sharing the files for free, as described below.
Credit is not required. A mention of 3DGarden is always appreciated.
Not allowed
You may not sell, rent, license or otherwise charge for the model files themselves, original or modified, in any format. That includes:
- listing them, alone or in a pack, on an asset store or marketplace;
- putting them behind a paywall, a subscription or a paid download;
- including them in a paid asset pack, kit, library or template whose value is the 3D files;
- selling them as NFTs or any other kind of token;
- passing them to someone else so that they can do any of the above.
The test is simple: if people pay to get the files, it is not allowed; if they pay for something you made with them, it is. When you are unsure, ask us.
Sharing for free
You may give the model files to other people, for free, as long as nobody pays for them at any point and they receive them under this same licence. The simplest way is to link to this page, or to the model on 3DGarden, alongside the files.
Ownership
The models stay the property of their authors: 3DGarden or the creator credited on the model page. This licence gives you the right to use them, not ownership of them, so you may not register them, or a design taken directly from them, as your own trademark or design right, or claim that you created them.
What you make with them is yours: your game, your film, your renders and your modifications belong to you.
How long it lasts
The licence does not expire, and we cannot take it back for models you have already downloaded, even if a model is later removed from the site or your account is closed. It ends only if you sell the model files in breach of this page; in that case you must stop distributing them.
No warranty
The models are provided as they are. We take care to publish only work that we or our creators have the right to share, but we cannot promise that a model suits your purpose. If you believe a model infringes your rights, tell us and we will look into it promptly.