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What it is for

Spline is a real-time 3D (and Hana 2D) design desk for the web: you open the editor on a balloon “design” word, and Free is $0. Use it when the job is an interactive 3D scene you start at a public $, not when you need Runway’s video timeline only.

Soft-note: Free $0 + Hobby $12/mo billed yearly ($15 monthly) + Pro $25/mo billed yearly ($30 monthly). Max / Enterprise exist. Distinct from Runway, Midjourney, and Leonardo.

What makes it unique: the cover is Spline’s official 3D editor (3D Paths-Handwritten, Objects / Assets, Preview / Edit / Code, balloon rainbow design word, Personal camera + lighting rail) from the Understanding Spline’s UI docs still — not the dark cube wordmark. The design word itself is ops of the canvas.

Key features

3D editor canvas — the balloon design word (cover still; docs UI). One desk. Cover design sits here.
Objects / Assets outliner — left rail search + Scene (cover). An outliner, not a Hobby tile.
Preview / Edit / Code — top tabs (cover). Modes, not a $12 meter.
Materials + lighting — DirectionalLight / Ambient Shadows / Play Camera (cover; docs). Lighting, not Get Started.
Timeline animation — keyframes + graph editor (timeline docs). A timeline, not Enterprise.
Publish / embed — web embed, iOS / Android export (docs). A publish, not Max.

Get Hobby / Start creating are CTAs (not desks). Hobby / Pro / Max tiles stay in Pricing. Spline AI agent / generate-3D stay off Key features as AI extras.

Who it's for

Best fit: web designers who will stay on Free at $0 (watermarked web exports) while they publish a first scene, then Hobby at $12/month yearly when they need no watermark and higher-res exports — not Pro $25 first unless they need the Pro library / MCP quota.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from spline.design/pricing. Soft-note: cards print yearly $ with monthly $ beside them.

Free — $0. 3D + Hana 2D files; web export with watermark.
Hobby — $12/seat/mo billed yearly ($15 monthly; “Save $36/seat/yr · 2 months free”). Everything on Free plus 100 MCP tool calls/day, unlimited 3D & 2D files, no watermark on web exports, higher-resolution image exports, material & audio library. 2,000 AI credits included (extra credit packs +$48/yr and up).
Pro — $25/seat/mo billed yearly ($30 monthly). Higher limits than Hobby.
Max — $60/seat/mo billed yearly (monthly $70 on the card we resolved). Confirm checkout.
Enterprise — custom. Do not invent an Enterprise $.

Confirm checkout; AI credits are metered on paid cards.

Limitations / costs

Free web exports keep a watermark. No-watermark starts at Hobby $12.
AI credits are a separate meter on Hobby / Pro / Max — not the seat $.
A 3D/Hana canvas, not Runway’s Edit in Timeline. For that video composer see Runway.
The product is not OSS. We omit a GitHub CTA rather than invent a product repo.

Alternatives

Runway — a video/image composer when you want Free $0 / Standard $12, not Spline’s balloon design canvas.
Midjourney — an image studio when you want Basic $10, not an embeddable 3D scene.
Leonardo — an image studio when you want Free 150 fast tokens/day, not a real-time 3D editor.

Official tutorial

Official Spline channel video: New to Spline? Watch This First! An Introduction to Spline 3D | Beginners Tutorial (oEmbed author: Spline). First-party beginners how-to; the 3D editor canvas still is the cover. Academy also lists it as Get Started with 3D in Spline. We searched @splinetool (200; product) and @spline (200; a different “Spline splinson” channel).

Written path: spline.design/pricing plus Understanding Spline’s UI.

Website

https://spline.design/

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Spline’s official 3D editor (balloon design word + Objects/Assets + Preview/Edit/Code) from docs. Dollars checked on spline.design/pricing (Free $0; Hobby $12/mo yearly / $15 monthly; Pro $25/mo yearly / $30 monthly). Tutorial oEmbed author: Spline (@splinetool; @spline is a different channel). No official product GitHub.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.