Quixel makes the whole Megascans library free on Fab again, and now allows AI training on it

Quixel says the full Megascans library is free on Fab from 5 November 2026. Anyone who bought Megascans or a Quixel Bundle since 1 January 2025 gets a refund to their Epic Account Balance.

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Quixel's Megascans library is free again. In a short post dated 5 November 2026, Quixel says it is "making the full Quixel Megascans library free on Fab", Epic's asset store.

Megascans is a big collection of photo-scanned surfaces, plants, rocks and props that a lot of small teams lean on for realistic environments. It was free for everyone from Fab's launch until the end of 2024, and 80 Level reported at the time that Epic would stop offering the library for free after that. That is why the post says "again".

Refunds for anyone who paid

If you bought Megascans or a Quixel Bundle on or after 1 January 2025, Quixel says it will refund the purchase to your Epic Account Balance, and you keep the licence. That balance can be spent across Epic's products, not only on Fab. To get it, you log into your Epic account and accept the latest terms if you have not already. Quixel says refunds will show up in the balance by the end of 2026, and problems go through Fab support.

Studios on a Quixel studio licence are a separate case. Those licences carry on under the terms of the contract, and the post tells studios to ask their representative.

The AI part

The other change is to the terms. Quixel has updated the terms for all of its assets so that you can now train AI models on Megascans and Megaplants. Its pitch is that models can learn from real-world scans to help generate varied, photorealistic environments. People who already paid keep their licence and get the new AI rights as well.

For a solo developer or a tiny team that mostly wanted free rocks, moss and tree trunks, the first half of the news is the useful bit. The post does not go into which licence the free assets come under beyond that, so check the terms on Fab before you ship anything built with them.

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