HunyuanWorld 1.0 (Tencent)
Open-weights model that generates explorable 360° 3D worlds from text or an image, with mesh export for standard graphics pipelines. Tencent has since released newer HY-World versions under separate repos.
Visit official site ↗Free (open weights)Restricted (see notes)
#2 in Level & terrain generationranked on game-dev fit · how we rank
Can I use HunyuanWorld 1.0 (Tencent) in a commercial game?
Restricted With restrictions: HunyuanWorld 1.0 (Tencent)'s licence allows commercial use only under certain conditions, so read the terms below before you ship.
What the terms say: Tencent HunyuanWorld-1.0 Community License: the licensed territory excludes the EU, UK and South Korea; use of the works or outputs outside that territory is unauthorized; products with over 1 million monthly active users must request a license from Tencent. Read the vendor's terms ↗ · Checked
Verdict: For self-hosting 3D world generation with mesh export; the licence excludes the EU, UK and South Korea, and large products need Tencent's approval.
- Best for
- Self-hosted 3D world generation
- Tasks
- Level & terrain generation
- Engines
- Any (standard file export / engine-agnostic)
- Price & free tier
- Free plan Free open weights (your own GPU costs)
Free to download and self-host (your own GPU/compute costs apply). A quantised "lite" version is listed for consumer GPUs such as the RTX 4090.
Source: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-1.0 - Export formats
- Mesh export (Draco supported per repo)
Source: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-1.0 - Commercial use & licence
- Restricted (see notes)
Tencent HunyuanWorld-1.0 Community License: the licensed territory excludes the EU, UK and South Korea; use of the works or outputs outside that territory is unauthorized; products with over 1 million monthly active users must request a license from Tencent.
Source: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-1.0/blob/main/LICENSE - Revenue share / caps
- Products with over 1 million monthly active users must request a licence from Tencent.
- API
- Not stated by vendor Not checked
- MCP server
- Not stated by vendor Not checked
- Last checked
We summarise what the vendor's own pages say on the date above. "Not stated by vendor" means we couldn't find that detail on the vendor's pages. Read the vendor's current terms before you ship anything.
