Companies Using Three.js

We detect Three.js on 110,915 domains, including Air Force, Vodafone, DXC. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is IT Services and IT Consulting (7.6%).

We detect 110,915 domains running Three.js across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 75,870 of them (68.4%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 11,906 domains carried a Three.js detection previously and no longer do.

Three.js holds 0.13% of the JavaScript Libraries category, ranking #48. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Three.js include jQuery (18.51% market share), core-js (12.13% market share), jQuery Migrate (9.86% market share), jQuery UI (5.64% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 14,085 matched Three.js domains, followed by India (6,286), Germany (4,734), United Kingdom (4,043), France (2,861). These are counts within the 75,870 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 58.11% of the Three.js domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 75,870 matched companies, not of all 110,915 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (25.71%) and 51-200 employees (9.8%).

Among the Three.js domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (36.49%), followed by the 2020s (31.17%). That matched subset is drawn from 75,870 companies and is not representative of all 110,915 detected domains. This suggests Three.js is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Three.js customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, or France, City: London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~5-15 years old — based on our analysis of 75,870 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

For browser-based 3D, Three.js is generally the better choice. Unity requires a WebGL export that produces large binaries (often 10-30 MB), while Three.js loads natively in the browser with smaller bundle sizes. Our data shows 110,915 domains running Three.js against 625 for Unity on the web, a ratio of roughly 177 to 1. Three.js also integrates directly with JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue, which Unity does not.

Yes. Three.js is released under the MIT License, which allows free commercial use with no restrictions. You can use it in client projects, SaaS products, and enterprise applications without paying licensing fees. The library is open source with 112K GitHub stars, 36.3K forks, and 47,000+ commits (source: github.com/mrdoob/three.js), maintained primarily by Ricardo Cabello (Mr.doob) since its initial release in April 2010.

Three.js is a lightweight rendering library focused on flexibility and community plugins, while Babylon.js is a full-fledged 3D engine with built-in physics, GUI and animation systems. Our data shows Three.js on 110,915 active domains against 226 for Babylon.js, roughly a 491:1 ratio. On npm the gap is narrower but still wide: 2.7M weekly downloads for Three.js versus roughly 10K for Babylon.js. Babylon.js is the stronger choice when you need physics and an editor out of the box; Three.js wins on ecosystem size.

Based on our analysis of 75,870 enriched companies, IT Services and IT Consulting leads at 7.6%, followed by Software Development at 7.23% and Advertising Services at 4.94%. Design Services (2.63%) and Marketing Services (2.21%) add to the agency block. Real Estate (1.68%) and Construction (3.25%) use it for virtual property tours and architectural visualisation. No single industry exceeds 8%, making Three.js a genuinely horizontal tool.

Yes. We detect Three.js on 110,915 domains as of August 2026. The r171 release made WebGPU production-ready, and npm downloads sit at 2.7M per week. Beyond websites, Three.js powered a 1-million-particle interactive installation at Expo 2025 Osaka. Month-to-month movement in the detected total reflects the crawled domain set turning over as much as adoption, so treat the level rather than any single month's change as the signal.

Yes. React Three Fiber (R3F) is the most popular integration, providing a declarative React component API for Three.js scenes. Our tech stack data shows styled-components (2.83%) and Material-UI (2.00%) overlapping with Three.js deployments, confirming active React ecosystem usage. R3F is maintained by Poimandres and has become the standard approach for React-based 3D web applications.

Production use cases include 3D product configurators (IKEA built a Wall Decor Planner with Three.js, per demodern.de), virtual property tours (real estate), satellite communication visualization (NASA Glenn Research Center, per ntrs.nasa.gov), Google Maps 3D overlays (Google maintains an official Three.js integration at github.com/googlemaps/js-three), and LiDAR point cloud annotation for autonomous driving (Segments.ai achieved 100x performance gains with Three.js + WebGPU, per utsubo.com). Our data shows Bombardier, BMW Group, Tata Motors and MD Anderson Cancer Center all running Three.js in production.

Three.js is a high-level abstraction layer on top of WebGL (and now WebGPU, since r171 in September 2025). Writing raw WebGL requires hundreds of lines of boilerplate for basic scenes, including shader code, buffer management, and matrix math. Three.js reduces that to a few lines of JavaScript with built-in cameras, lights, materials, and geometry. It's the most widely adopted WebGL abstraction, with 110,915 active domains in our database, 112K GitHub stars, and 2.7M weekly npm downloads (source: github.com/mrdoob/three.js, utsubo.com/blog/threejs-2026-what-changed).

Small teams dominate: 58.11% of Three.js companies have 1-10 employees and 83.82% have fewer than 50, based on 71,969 companies with a published size band. These are mostly creative agencies, freelance developers and boutique studios. Enterprise adoption exists but is focused: 271 companies have more than 10,000 employees, including Bombardier, Vodafone, Mars, BMW Group and the U.S. Department of Defense, and their detections sit on specific visualisation projects rather than main corporate sites.

Yes. Three.js includes built-in WebXR support for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences. However, our migration data shows 151 companies moved from Three.js to A-Frame, Mozilla's WebXR framework that's actually built on top of Three.js. A-Frame provides a simpler, more declarative API specifically for VR/AR. Teams focused exclusively on XR often prefer A-Frame's higher-level abstraction.

Three.js has a moderate learning curve. Basic scenes (rotating cubes, simple models) take a few hours to set up. Advanced features like custom shaders, physics, and performance optimization require deeper knowledge of WebGL concepts. The Three.js Journey course by Bruno Simon is the most cited learning resource, rated 4.8/5 on Trustpilot from 101 reviews (source: trustpilot.com/review/threejs-journey.com). The official documentation includes 300+ examples (source: threejs.org/examples). For React teams, React Three Fiber lets you write 3D scenes as JSX components.

The largest currently detected companies include Bombardier (Aerospace, 10,001+), Vodafone (Telecommunications, 10,001+), Mars, Incorporated (Consumer Goods, 10,001+), BMW Group (Automotive, 10,001+), Tesco (Retail, 10,001+), Tata Motors (Automotive, 10,001+) and the U.S. Department of Defense. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Inchcape plc and Abdul Latif Jameel also appear in current detection data.