The ultimate generative
3D API toolkit

We are providing users early access to cutting edge capabilities while we gather feedback to drive improvement. We’re actively iterating on features based on input to deliver the best experience. This also means that some features, capabilities and pricing may change as we refine and improve our services.

We will actively communicate any large scale changes and provide a transition period to ensure our users have adequate time to accommodate those changes.

Our generative API service can currently be used to generate 3D focused content including 3D models and HDRI panoramas. We expect to grow our offering to include additional media types services in the future.

As this offering is API based, you must make API requests as outlined in our documentation.

To get started, we provide both robust documentation with examples using both cURL and Python.

However, you can also download our plugin for the 3D application Blender, or download our standalone app to start generating in a matter of minutes. We provide guides on how to get started with our integrations in our documentation. We plan on offering more plugins and integrations in other top 3D software applications in the near future.

To generate you will need to purchase a credit pack as well as generate an API token. We provide a step-by-step guide in our Quick Start guides available within the developer platform.

We currently support generating 3D models and HDRI panoramas in a variety of formats using both text prompts and images. We call these our ‘workflows’.

We will share more about bringing more workflows across more media types to the service later this year.

We currently provide a Blender plugin as well as a standalone app. You can learn more about using those in our documentation.

Preview mode is an option for text-to-3D and image-to-3D workflows that allow for the quick and cheaper generation of a preview image before you commit to a 3D model generation.

We provide options to receive your previews in images, or gif or .mp4 animated turntables.

You can learn more about preview mode in our documentation.

For 3D generation we provide options for common interchange formats including GLB, USDZ, OBJ and PLY. This enables the 3D models you generate to easily be opened in nearly any 3D application. We also support specifying receiving multiple formats for each generation.

For panoramas, we provide .jpg and .png output formats for our 4K panoramas and .exr and .hdr for our 16K resolution 32-bit panoramas.

We support generating both 3D models and panoramas from a reference image.

For 3D model generation, the user provided image serves as a heavily weighted reference to steer the generation. The model may deviate from the image considerably.

For panorama generation, the user-provided image serves as the center of the generated full panorama, with the AI model outpainting to generate a full spherical 360.

Shutterstock is proud of our ethical approach to AI. You can learn about our overall TRUST framework that guides our approach here.

When it comes to safeguards, we take a multi-layered approach to prevent the creation of offensive, misleading or otherwise inappropriate content. We also have systems in place to help prevent the creation of brand infringing content. These safeguards, while robust, are imperfect but we strive to improve them on a constant basis.

If your request inadvertently triggers our safety or brand detection systems, you are provided an error message and your credits are not consumed.

We take safety and responsible AI usage seriously. Abusive, intentional misuse, or attempting to bypass the safety protections of our services will result in your service being suspended.

The model that powers our 3D generative services was trained on hundreds of millions of licensed images from Shutterstock as well as over 1 million licensed 3D models from TurboSquid.

We add new content over time to continuously improve the quality of our models.

For enterprises we are prioritizing existing customers. To get access, please contact your Shutterstock representative or contact aigenapis@shutterstock.com.