Adobe Firefly vs Meshy
A side-by-side look at Adobe Firefly and Meshy for filmmakers: what each one can do, what it costs, and where they actually differ.
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Adobe's generative studio for images, video and audio, with commercially cleared models and partner models
- Price
- Free daily generations, or Standard from $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro Plus and Premium have a 30% first-year promo ending Oct 21
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Generative fill and object removal on plates, stills and reference frames in Photoshop
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Text and image to 3D models with PBR textures, auto-rigging and a 3D agent for game and VFX assets
- Price
- Free (100 credits/mo); paid plans: see the vendor's pricing page
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Previz and background props built from a concept image
The short version
Where they differ
- Only Adobe Firefly offers text to video.
- Only Adobe Firefly offers image to video.
- Only Adobe Firefly offers video to video.
- Only Adobe Firefly offers voice / TTS.
- Only Adobe Firefly offers music & SFX.
All 2 offer: AI agent, chat assistant, team collaboration, public API, free tier, commercial use.
Feature by feature
Adobe Firefly vs Meshy: capabilities
| Adobe Firefly | Meshy | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free daily generations, or Standard from $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro Plus and Premium have a 30% first-year promo ending Oct 21 | Free (100 credits/mo); paid plans: see the vendor's pricing page |
| Infinite canvas | Yes | Not confirmed |
| AI agent | Yes | Yes |
| Chat assistant | Yes | Yes |
| Team collaboration | Yes | Yes |
| Text to image | Yes | Partial |
| Image editing | Yes | Partial |
| Text to video | Yes | No |
| Image to video | Yes | No |
| Video to video | Yes | No |
| Voice / TTS | Yes | No |
| Music & SFX | Yes | No |
| Upscaling | Yes | Partial |
| Character consistency | Partial | Not confirmed |
| Custom training | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Third-party models | Yes | Partial |
| Public API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Desktop / local | Partial | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page. "Not confirmed" means the vendor doesn't say.
Plans
Pricing compared
Adobe Firefly
| Free | Freemonthly |
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| Standard | $9.99monthly |
| Pro | $19.99monthly |
| Pro Plus | $49.99 ($34.97 first year, promo ends Oct 21)monthly |
| Premium | $199.99 ($139.91 first year, promo ends Oct 21)monthly |
| Pro for teams | $19.99 per licensemonthly, annual |
| Pro Plus for teams | $49.99 per licensemonthly, annual |
| Premium for teams | $199.99 per licensemonthly, annual |
Meshy
| Free | $0monthly |
|---|---|
| Enterprise | Customcontract; wire transfer on request |
The verdict
Which one should you pick?
Adobe Firefly
Pick it for
- Generative fill and object removal on plates, stills and reference frames in Photoshop
- Storyboard and mood-board work in Boards, with partner models for each shot
- Filmmakers already paying for Creative Cloud who want AI inside Premiere and After Effects
Stands out
- Commercial-clearance story: Adobe's own models are trained on Adobe Stock and licensed or public-domain content, and Adobe says outputs are safe for commercial use. Partner-model outputs carry their own terms.
- Native Creative Cloud integration: generative fill, removal and expansion run inside Photoshop, and Premiere Pro and After Effects get Firefly features. Midjourney, Flux, Leonardo and Stable Diffusion have no equivalent in an NLE.
Watch out
- Image quality for photoreal hero art still trails Midjourney and Flux in most side-by-side comparisons
- Credits are consumed at different rates by model, so one plan's allowance is hard to predict across partner models
Meshy
Pick it for
- Previz and background props built from a concept image
- Creature and character blockouts that get rigged and animated in Blender or Unity
- Texture variants of one mesh for a set of props or NPCs
Stands out
- Fast turnaround: about one minute per textured model, with a 3D Agent that drives the whole brief from one chat instead of a single prompt box
- Auto-rigging and 600+ motion presets for humanoid and quadruped characters, plus Text to Motion (July 2026) for rigged-character animation from a prompt
Watch out
- Detail on faces and hard surfaces still lags a hand-modelled hero asset
- Credit costs stack: texturing, re-meshing and Ultra modes each draw credits, so a finished model costs several times the base price
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page, checked against vendor pricing and changelog pages (oldest check: ). Sources are listed on each tool's page.