3D and asset generation Cascadeur vs TRELLIS.2
Can you ship a game made with Cascadeur or TRELLIS.2? By stored vendor quotes: Cascadeur: "Paid plan only", cheapest verified commercial plan $33/mo (billed yearly); TRELLIS.2: "Partly verified".
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
A paid plan is the shipping path. Free-plan output is not cleared for commercial use.
Commercial terms are only partly verified. This is not a yes.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | Cascadeur | TRELLIS.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Cascadeurverified Indie is $19 a month, or $8 a month billed annually, and the yearly plan gives access to a perpetual license. | TRELLIS.2verified Free to download. There is no hosted paid plan from Microsoft. Running it needs Linux and an NVIDIA GPU with at least 24GB of memory. |
| Commercial use | Cascadeurverified The free plan includes the full animation toolset but exports only .casc (no FBX or DAE) and allows only non-commercial use. | TRELLIS.2verified The model card says TRELLIS.2-4B is released under the MIT License. MIT allows commercial use, but check the pipeline's dependencies (see caveats). |
| Ownership of outputs | Cascadeurunverified Unverified. | TRELLIS.2unverified Unverified. |
| License caveat | Cascadeurverified The FAQ quotes EULA 1.6: on Indie, gross revenue or funding in the prior twelve months must be under $100,000, checked at download and at each renewal. Above that you need Pro. | TRELLIS.2verified The reference setup installs NVIDIA's nvdiffrast and nvdiffrec. nvdiffrast's license allows non-commercial (research or evaluation) use only. |
| Steam disclosure | Cascadeurverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | TRELLIS.2verified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | Cascadeurverified Free exports CASC only; Indie, Pro, and Teams export CASC, FBX, DAE, USD, and GLTF. | TRELLIS.2verified The output is a mesh with PBR materials, and the repo's example exports GLB. Voxel resolution runs from 512³ to 1536³. |