Cheapest AI tools with commercial use for game devs
Lowest listed monthly price on a plan the vendor quotes with commercial use, by category: voice, Cartesia at $5/mo; textures and 2D art, Midjourney at $8/mo (billed yearly); music and SFX, Suno at $8/mo (billed yearly); 3D models, Sloyd at $12.50/mo (billed yearly). For NPC dialogue, the quoted commercial plans have no monthly subscription (Charisma.ai, Inworld). Not verified yet: engine and code copilots, QA and playtesting.
Each price below is parsed from a verbatim quote on the vendor's pricing page, and each plan counts only when a stored vendor quote says that plan allows commercial use. If we do not have both quotes, the tool is listed as not verified yet, so a cheaper plan may exist that we have not checked. Prices are as listed on the day they were copied; taxes and currency are not converted. It is not legal advice.
17 of 30 tools have both a verified price quote and a verified commercial-use quote here · last checked 2026-10-19
3D and asset generation
For 3D models, the lowest listed monthly price on a plan the vendor quotes with commercial use is Sloyd at $12.50/mo (billed yearly); then Scenario at $15/mo, Tripo at $20/mo (billed yearly), Luma AI at $30/mo. Meshy quotes commercial use without a monthly subscription (free, free with conditions, or pay as you go).
Self-serve prices. Starter is $15/mo for 1,500 monthly credits. Pro is $45/mo for 5,000. Max is $75/mo for 10,000. Annual billing is described as 33% cheaper. A free allowance of 50 daily credits is also on the page.
Starter 1,500 monthly credits $15 /mo Designed for casual creators who love to explore AI. ✓ Standard compute rate ✓ Single user workspace ✓ Access to every AI model ✓ Private generations ✓ Community support (Discord) ✓ 50 GB storage Start Free Trial For Creators Pro 5,000 monthly credits $45 /mo For demanding creators who need high performance or custom models. Everything in Starter, plus: ✓ Priority queue + unlimited relaxed generations ✓ Train custom models ✓ Ticket support ✓ 500 GB storage Start Now For Teams Max 10,000 monthly credits $75 /mo
Paid vs free. All paid plans include a full commercial license: use, modify, and ship in games, sell, or deliver to clients without royalties. Free-plan outputs are for personal and evaluation use only.
All paid plans include a full commercial license. You own what you create: you can use, modify, and ship assets in games, sell them, or deliver them to clients without paying royalties. Free plan outputs are for personal and evaluation use only.
Price and commercial use (one quote). Plus is listed at $30/month, or $300 billed yearly, with 10,000 credits. The same card lists commercial use.
Plus $30 /month $300 billed yearly Start Now 10,000 credits Luma and third-party image and video models Edit access for guest collaborators Commercial use
Commercial license on the pricing page. The words 'Commercial license included' appear on the pricing page immediately before the Business plan chooser. The homepage FAQ does not say every generation is commercially cleared.
Free-plan commercial use. Free-plan customers do not get an assignment of the model. Meshy says it owns Customer Output and makes it available under CC BY 4.0 if they credit Meshy. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, but attribution is required.
Customers using Meshy's Services under the free plan, acknowledge and agree that Meshy owns all right, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Customer Output and makes such rights available to free plan customers under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (the " CC BY 4.0 License "), as long as the free plan customer provides appropriate credit to Meshy.
For textures and 2D art, the lowest listed monthly price on a plan the vendor quotes with commercial use is Midjourney at $8/mo (billed yearly); then Layer at $10/mo. Stability AI quotes commercial use without a monthly subscription (free, free with conditions, or pay as you go).
Plan prices. Midjourney has four subscription tiers. Monthly prices: Basic $10, Standard $30, Pro $60, Mega $120. Annual prices: Basic $96 ($8/month), Standard $288 ($24/month), Pro $576 ($48/month), Mega $1,152 ($96/month).
Basic Plan Standard Plan Pro Plan Mega Plan Monthly Price $10 $30 $60 $120 Annual Price $96 ($8 / month) $288 ($24 / month) $576 ($48 / month) $1,152 ($96 / month)
Commercial use. Midjourney says you own the images and videos you create, even after you cancel, and may use them however you like, with a couple of exceptions (see the caveat row). Every Midjourney plan is a paid subscription.
With Midjourney, you own all the images and videos you create, even if you decide to cancel your subscription. Feel free to use them however you like, with just a couple of exceptions:
Caveat: Company revenue threshold. A business grossing more than $1,000,000 USD a year needs a Pro or Mega plan to use its images commercially for the company.
If you are part of a business grossing more than $1,000,000 USD a year, you need a Pro or Mega Plan to use your images commercially for your company.
Subscription price. Subscriptions begin at $10/month for 300 Creative Units, then increase by $60 per 1,000 CUs. Seats are described as $0 per seat. Unused units expire, with up to 10% rolling over.
Subscriptions begin at $10/month for 300 Creative Units, increasing by $60 per 1,000 CUs. Unused units expire at the end of their billing period, with up to 10% rolling over to the next billing period.
Community vs enterprise. The community license is free for researchers, developers, small businesses, and creators with less than $1M in annual revenue. Enterprise is for revenue exceeding $1M and is custom priced.
Community For researchers, developers, small businesses, and creators with less than $1M in annual revenue. License includes: Stable Audio 3.0 Stable Diffusion 3.5 Suite SDXL Turbo Stable Fast 3D View full list Free Get license Enterprise For enterprise, API providers, and businesses with annual revenue exceeding $1M.
Community license scope. Stability says the Community License allows research, non-commercial, and commercial use for individuals or organizations under $1M annual revenue, regardless of the source of that revenue.
The Stability AI Community License allows for research, non-commercial, and commercial use of the Core Models for individuals or organizations that generate under $1M (or local currency equivalent) of annual revenue, regardless of the source of that revenue.
Caveat: Revenue threshold. The enterprise column is the one that literally lists 'Commercial Use' as a license line, for organizations above $1M. Read that next to the community-license FAQ, which also says commercial use is allowed under $1M.
Enterprise For enterprise, API providers, and businesses with annual revenue exceeding $1M. License includes: Commercial Use
For voice, the lowest listed monthly price on a plan the vendor quotes with commercial use is Cartesia at $5/mo; then ElevenLabs at $6/mo, WellSaid at $10/mo (billed yearly).
Price and commercial use (one quote). Pro is $5/mo with 100K credits per month. Startup is $49/mo with 1.25M credits. Scale is $299/mo with 8M credits.
Pro $5 /mo Select Pro 100K credits / month $5 prepaid agents / month Everything in Free, plus ✓ Commercial use license ✓ Instant voice cloning Startup $49 /mo Select Startup 1.25M credits / month $49 prepaid agents / month Everything in Pro, plus ✓ Pro voice cloning ✓ Organizations Scale $299 /mo
Price and commercial use (one quote). Starter is listed at $6 per month with 30k credits per month. The earlier $1 first-month promo (marked 'Until Oct 18') is no longer shown.
Starter $6 per month Choose Starter Everything in free, plus Commercial License Instant Voice Cloning 20 Projects in Studio Music commercial use Dubbing Studio Image & Video 30k credits per month
For music and SFX, the lowest listed monthly price on a plan the vendor quotes with commercial use is Suno at $8/mo (billed yearly); then SOUNDRAW at $11.04/mo, Mubert at $32.49/mo.
Price and commercial use (one quote). Pro is shown at $8/month on the yearly toggle ('Saves $24 by billing yearly'), with 2,500 credits, 20 song downloads, and commercial use rights. Premier is $24/month with 10,000 credits and 60 downloads.
Pro Most Popular Access to our best models and editing tools. $8 /month Saves $24 by billing yearly! Taxes calculated at checkout Subscribe Access to our best models 2,500 credits per month 20 song downloads per month Commercial use rights Standard + Pro features 2 stem separation types (Auto; Split from mix) Early access to new features Ability to purchase additional credits and downloads Priority queue; up to 10 songs at once Record, upload, and create with your own voice Create custom models Premier Best Value Maximum credits and every feature unlocked. $24 /month Saves $72 by billing yearly! Taxes calculated at checkout Subscribe Access to Suno Studio - now with MIDI, effects, automation, and design-your-own-plugins 10,000 credits per month 60 song downloads per month
Caveat: Permitted download. Commercial exploitation is allowed only for output the user downloaded through an approved channel within the tier's download allocation. Other copies, including recording or stream ripping, are prohibited.
Permitted Commercial Use : You may commercially exploit Output solely to the extent it adheres to Suno's Conditions of Access and Use as outlined above provided you have obtained a permitted download of that Output in accordance with the download allocations for your applicable service tier (each, a “Download”). You may not commercially exploit Output that has not been downloaded by you through an approved channel under these Terms of Service. The number of Downloads you are permitted per month depends on your service tier, as set out at https://suno.com/account , which may be updated from time to time. You covenant and agree, that, other than the permitted commercial use above, you will not use or exploit any Output for commercial purposes on or outside the Service. You agree not to remove, alter, obscure or circumvent any fingerprint, watermark or metadata Suno appends to an Output for the purpose of concealing or misrepresenting the provenance, service tier, or status of that Output. You may edit, process, or convert the format of an Output you are otherwise permitted to use to the extent such use is incidental. Obtaining a copy of an Output by any means other than a download channel made available by Suno is prohibited (for example, recording or stream ripping are prohibited
Price and commercial use (one quote). Creator is $16.99/mo ($11.04/mo on the annual display) for individuals and companies under 10 employees. Artist Starter is $29.99/mo, Artist Pro $35.99/mo, Artist Unlimited $50/mo. Enterprise is 'Ask'.
Creator For content creators, Individuals & Small companies (<10 employees) $16.99/mo $11.04/mo Subscribe Commercial use Use as background music Distribute & monetize songs (Spotify, Apple Music...) Unlimited Monthly Track Downloads Download as mp3 Artist Starter For music artists / producers, Individuals & Small companies (<10 employees) $29.99/mo $19.49/mo Subscribe Commercial use Use as background music Distribute & monetize songs (Spotify, Apple Music...) 10 Monthly Track Downloads Download as mp3 Artist Pro For music artists / producers, Individuals & Small companies (<10 employees) $35.99/mo $23.39/mo Subscribe Everything in Artist Starter, plus: 20 Monthly Track Downloads Download as mp3, wav, stems Artist Unlimited For music artists / producers, Individuals & Small companies (<10 employees) $50/mo
For NPC dialogue, no monthly plan with both a verified price quote and a verified commercial-use quote is on file yet. Charisma.ai and Inworld quote commercial use without a monthly subscription (free, free with conditions, or pay as you go).
Plan prices. Docs list On-Demand as Free, Creator at $25/mo, Builder at $100/mo, Developer at $300/mo, Growth at $1,500/mo, and Enterprise as custom. Paid plans include credits equal to the monthly price.
Commercial license on the price card. The pricing page includes the words 'Commercial license' in the On-Demand section, which is the $0 pay-as-you-go column.
Commercial license Community support Choose On-Demand
Caveat: Terms license grant. The terms grant a limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use the services and models solely for internal business purposes and as the documentation permits.
Inworld AI grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Services and Models solely for your internal business purposes and as permitted by the documentation.