Texel

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Freedom report

One barScore 5.2

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedThinly documented

Texel is ranked #21 of 28 in 3D texturing software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan.

Texel plans and pricing

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Early Access Free Free while in Early Access Invite only · Access released in small batches texel.art · 5 Oct 2026

Compared on 3D texturing software

Free plan: Yes
3D texture painting: Yes
Procedural materials: Yes
Texture baking: Yes
PBR workflow: Yes
Node-based authoring: Yes
Supported platforms: Web

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The record

Product: Texel is a collaborative 3D texturing studio for VFX and games that runs in the browser.
Materials: It supports PBR channels including albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, ambient occlusion, and emission, with channel-packed exports.
Painting and graphs: Features include projection painting, non-destructive node graphs, baked maps, tile-based virtual texturing, and custom HLSL or WGSL nodes.
Collaboration: Artists can paint together in real time, branch scene states, review and merge changes, and set permissions down to nodes, channels, or UDIMs.
Input limits: The site lists USD, FBX, glTF, and OBJ model uploads up to 4 million triangles, with multi-UDIM support.
Integrations: The site describes live links to Blender, Maya, Houdini, and ZBrush, and API workflows for Houdini, Maya, Nuke, and Blender.
Export formats: Channel-packed exports are listed for USD, glTF, Unreal, and Unity.
AI features: AI graph nodes include mask-aware upscale, normal extraction, semantic fill across UDIMs, and smart edge wear; nodes preserve inputs, parameters, and seeds.
AI data use: Texel says it does not use project work to train AI models and that heavier AI processing runs in a region the user selects.
Security: The privacy page states that Texel uses TLS, scoped presigned uploads, per-project access checks on WebSocket and API calls, and Cloudflare secret storage.
Data residency: Texel says project state is pinned to a region near the team and heavier AI compute runs in the selected region; it says enterprise plans have hooks for strict residency needs.
Support: The terms page lists an email address for general questions and another for security reports.
Early Access limits: Early Access is invite-only, and the terms say service-level agreements do not apply during this period.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best 3D Texturing Software in 2026#21 of 28

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Sources

texel.art· checked 5 Oct 2026
texel.art/privacy/· checked 5 Oct 2026
texel.art/terms/· checked 5 Oct 2026