What is Objaverse?
Objaverse is an open dataset of more than 800,000 annotated 3D objects, released by the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, and Objaverse-XL extends it to over 10 million. Almost every open image-to-3D model since 2023 was trained on it. The collection is ODC-By, but each object keeps its own Creative Commons licence, and about 77,000 of them forbid commercial use.
| Made by | Allen Institute for AI (AI2) |
|---|---|
| Objects | 800K+ (Objaverse 1.0), 10M+ (Objaverse-XL) |
| Dataset licence | ODC-By 1.0 |
| Object licences | Per object: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC0 |
What is in Objaverse
Objaverse 1.0 collects 3D models that their creators published on Sketchfab under Creative Commons licences, with names, tags, descriptions and categories. Objaverse-XL adds objects from GitHub, Thingiverse, the Smithsonian and other sources, for over 10 million in total, with far less curation.
The quality varies as much as you would expect from millions of uploads. Research teams filter it heavily before training, for example to objects with textures, a single main object and enough detail.
The licences, object by object
The dataset as a whole is licensed ODC-By 1.0. Each object keeps the licence its creator chose. For Objaverse 1.0 the dataset card counts about 721,000 objects under CC BY 4.0, 16,000 under CC BY-SA, 25,000 under CC BY-NC and 52,000 under CC BY-NC-SA, and about 3,500 under CC0.
So you cannot treat Objaverse as one licence. If you use objects directly, read each object's licence in the metadata, credit its creator, and leave out the NC objects for anything commercial.
Why it matters for image-to-3D
Before Objaverse, 3D datasets had tens of thousands of objects. Objaverse made large 3D generative models possible: Zero123, LRM, TripoSR, InstantMesh and TRELLIS all trained on filtered subsets of it. When an open model is good at furniture and weak at a rare category, it is often because Objaverse is.
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Frequently asked
Can I use Objaverse models commercially?
Only the ones whose own licence allows it. About 721,000 of the 800,000 objects are CC BY 4.0, which allows commercial use with credit. About 77,000 are under NC licences and do not. Check each object's licence in the metadata.
How do I download Objaverse?
Use the objaverse Python package from the Allen Institute, which downloads objects and their metadata by ID. The full dataset is very large, so most people download a filtered subset.
What is the difference between Objaverse and Objaverse-XL?
Objaverse 1.0 has about 800,000 objects from Sketchfab, with good annotations. Objaverse-XL has over 10 million from many sources, with less curation and more duplicates.
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Facts checked 2026-11-06 against the model cards, licence files and READMEs.