Creality Pika brings pocket-sized AI 3D scanning to makers for $699

A scanner you can fit in a jacket pocket

Creality has started selling the Pika, a portable 3D scanner it first showed at its 12th anniversary launch event. The device weighs 260 grams and measures 100 by 60 by 35 millimeters, so it goes in a pocket and works without a tripod or a wired PC. It is on sale now for $699, with a 10 percent launch discount running for about three weeks.

For makers who already own a printer, the appeal is obvious. You scan an object, clean it up in software, and send the result to the slicer. The Pika is built to close the gap between a physical thing and a printable model.

Two optical systems in one body

The Pika combines a 7-line blue laser with NIR structured light. The blue laser handles fine detail on small parts, with accuracy down to 0.03 mm and a minimum scan volume of 10 cubic millimeters. NIR mode is for people, larger objects, and full-color capture, with accuracy around 0.1 mm and a working distance out to one meter.

One practical detail stands out: it scans black and metallic surfaces without scanning spray. That removes a step that has annoyed real-world scanning for years. You also get marker-free alignment, so you skip the tedious dot-placement routine before you start.

AI cleanup and phone scanning

A 3-inch touchscreen shows scans in real time. The Pika connects over Wi-Fi 6 and USB 3.0, runs on two removable 3,350 mAh batteries, and works with Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. CrealityScan adds AI re-texturing, hole filling, and body completion, which cuts the manual cleanup between a raw scan and a printable mesh.

It captures at up to 110 frames per second in PC line-laser mode, and supports Gaussian Splatting output for more realistic texture and color than plain mesh mapping. Exports go to STL, OBJ, PLY, and ASC, the formats most printers and modeling tools already accept.

Who it is for

At $699 the Pika is not an impulse buy, but it undercuts larger desktop scanners by a wide margin. Creality is aiming it at makers, figurine painters, designers, classrooms, and light professional work. If you have ever wanted to clone a broken plastic part, capture a sculpture for printing, or turn a real object into a model, this is the kind of tool that makes that routine instead of project-scale.

The catch is the usual one with new hardware: limited launch stock and a discount window that closes fast. If the price is the deciding factor, the 10 percent off matters more this month than next.

Check the Creality Pika at the official store