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Sketchfab

Logo: Sketchfag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

3D model hosting and sharing platform

3D model hosting and sharing platform Sketchfab is a 3D asset website used to publish, share, and discover 3D, VR and AR content. It provides a viewer based on the WebGL and WebXR technologies that allows users to display 3D models on the web, to be viewed on any mobile browser, desktop browser or Virtual Reality headset.3 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2012Founded1
  • HeadquartersNew York City1
  • Websitesketchfab.com
  • Incorporated inDE5
  • Business address36 Cooper Square, 6Th Floor, New York, Ny 100035

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3D model hosting and sharing platform3

Corporate structure

Sketchfab is part of a group headed by Epic Games. 13 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Service

Viewer

The main product of Sketchfab is a 3D, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) model viewer. It enables users to move freely around or inside the 3D scene using mouse, touch manipulation, VR or AR. In addition to static 3D models, the viewer is able to play and control 3D animations. Viewers can enable the VR mode to see the model in Virtual Reality headsets or the AR mode to visualise the model within the real world via a mobile device.

The 3D viewer is used on the Sketchfab website and mobile apps, but can also be embedded on external websites, notably on Facebook, Twitter or Wordpress.

Portal and marketplace

Sketchfab provides online and mobile community portals, where visitors can browse, rate, download and buy user-generated 3D models.

Users of Sketchfab have profile pages, premium users can customize and share their models privately. Sketchfab users can choose to make their 3D model files available for download under Creative Commons licenses or to sell them in the Sketchfab store. With content available for sale or download, Sketchfab is positioned as a 3D model marketplace and as a 3D printing marketplace since some models are compatible with 3D printing.

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3D asset management

Sketchfab offers to paying enterprise customers a dedicated platform to share, manage and collaborate on 3D assets.

Native applications

A selection of Sketchfab models are available within a native application for the following VR headsets: Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

The mobile application can be used to view the 3D models in Augmented Reality leveraging the ARKit APIs on iOS and ARCore on Android.

Model upload and download

3D models can be uploaded to Sketchfab from its website or directly from various 3D software, using plugins (for example for 3ds Max or SketchUp) or natively (from Blender or Adobe Photoshop).

Sketchfab offers an API allowing developers to integrate functionality for searching and downloading Sketchfab's Creative Commons-licensed 3D models into their applications.

Technology

Sketchfab relies on the WebGL JavaScript API to display 3D on web pages in all major modern web browsers. It does not rely on third-party plugins.

Sketchfab implements the WebVR JavaScript API to provide a virtual reality mode of its viewer on compatible VR headsets.

The 3D viewer uses the open-source OSG.JS JavaScript library, a library created and largely maintained by Sketchfab employees. Rendering is achieved using classic real-time rendering or physically based rendering.

From Wikipedia’s article on Sketchfab, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Timeline

  1. 2021Acquired Acquired by Epic Games1
  2. 2012Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Sketchfab is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARSketchfab, Inc.2
  • CIK0001593373
  • Employer ID (EIN)46-23684152
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Business address36 Cooper Square, 6Th Floor, New York, NY 100032
  • Phone64646324312
  • On EDGAR sinceDec 5, 20132
  • Filings3 in all: D (3)2

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