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Who grants the right to sell

The designer. Cults3D hosts the file, but the person who uploaded it decides whether prints can be sold, model by model. So two models on the same site can have opposite answers.

Where to find it

This section is about the platform's web pages, not its terms, so the terms can't confirm it. We haven't checked it against the live site recently, so treat it as a starting point and check the site yourself.

• Look for the License section on the model's own page. Cults3D's terms name that as the place the framework for using the file is set.
• Check which licence it is against Cults3D's published list of the licences designers can choose from.
• If the designer offers a separate commercial tier or a paid commercial licence, that is a second purchase, not an upgrade to the file you already bought.

What the labels mean

No commercial permission stated

The default, and it is stricter than most people assume: private and personal use, with selling a 3D-printed version of the model called out specifically as outside it.

A licence the designer has chosen to permit more

The choice of licence is entirely the designer's, from the set Cults3D publishes. Read the one on the model rather than assuming the platform sets a house rule.

Worth knowing

• A commercial tier you pay for monthly usually stops covering you the month you stop paying. Carrying on selling after that is a common way for sellers to get caught out.
• Cults3D is a marketplace rather than the seller — it describes itself as a transparent intermediary acting for the designer. So there is no Cults3D-wide commercial licence to buy. Permission always comes from the designer.

What to keep

Terms change, and in a dispute what counts is what you agreed to on the day. Save a copy when you buy, not when someone asks for it.

• A copy of the licence as it read on the model page the day you paid. Designers can change it later.
• The receipt or order confirmation, showing the date and what it covered.
• Your own copy of the model page and the designer's name — Cults3D's terms say outright that it does not guarantee continued access to files you have already downloaded, because a designer can remove a creation at any time. If it goes, so does the page you would otherwise point at.

The authority

This page describes how licensing works here in our own words. It is not a statement of what you are permitted to do, and it does not reproduce anyone's terms. Read the Cults3D terms

Two documents worth knowing apart: the general terms linked here, which set the default, and Cults3D's separate Licenses page listing the licences a designer can choose from.

Confirmed against the platform's own terms on 12 Sept 2026. Their document was last updated 31 Mar 2026 — if that date has moved, so may this page have.