Beautiful.ai vs Gamma: Pricing, Free Plans and Which to Pick (2026)

Beautiful.ai or Gamma: which should you pick?

For most individuals, Gamma. It has a free plan that needs no credit card, its entry price is $9 a month billed annually ($12 monthly), and it builds a full deck from a prompt. Beautiful.ai costs $14.50 a month on annual billing, or $45 if you pay month to month, and it has no free plan, only a 14-day trial that asks for a card.

Beautiful.ai is the better choice when the deck leaves your hands as a file. It builds on fixed slides with layouts that adjust as you edit, and it exports to PowerPoint and PDF. Gamma uses a scrollable card format, and users report that converting it to PowerPoint can break layouts.

Both tools have the same pitch: describe what you need and get a presentable deck without designing it yourself. The real differences are what you pay, what you can try first, and what format you hand to the audience.

What do Beautiful.ai and Gamma cost?

Gamma is cheaper at every entry point, and the gap is widest if you pay month to month.

The Beautiful.ai monthly premium is the number to watch. A year of $45 months costs $540, against $174 on the annual plan. The pricing page frames the monthly option as a way to handle a single project, and that is the only sensible use of it. If you need a deck this week and never again, $45 is a fair price for a month. If you will make decks all year, the annual plan is the price to compare.

Gamma’s annual discount is real but smaller in dollars. Plus costs $144 a year billed monthly ($12 x 12) and $108 billed annually, a 25% saving. A year of Beautiful.ai Pro costs $174 on the annual plan and $540 month to month, so Gamma Plus is $66 cheaper on annual billing and $396 cheaper on monthly billing. Prices come from each vendor’s pricing page, checked in a browser on November 8, 2026.

Gamma free vs Plus vs Pro: what do you get?

Free is a real plan, but the credits are a one-time grant. Paid plans are where the monthly allowance, the unwatermarked exports and the team features start.

Credits are spent per action, and the cost shifts with the AI model and how complex the request is. One click on generate does not always cost the same. The Free allowance can also be raised by referrals, up to 2,000 credits held at a time, and free users cannot buy extra.

Free vs Plus comes down to volume. If you need one or two decks and can live with the watermark, Free is enough. If you make decks weekly, 400 credits that never come back will run out, and Plus at $9 to $12 is the cheap fix. Free vs Pro is a team question: you want the shared brand kit and workspace, or you need unlimited slides per prompt.

Our Gamma review has the full plan breakdown and the Trustpilot billing complaints in detail.

How do the free options compare?

Gamma gives you a free plan; Beautiful.ai gives you a trial that needs a card.

Beautiful.ai’s pricing page says a free trial requires a credit card, and that the card on file is charged automatically unless you cancel before the 14 days end. Set a reminder for day 12. There is no permanent plan after the trial.

Gamma’s free plan has no card requirement and does not expire. The cost is the limited credits, 10 slides per prompt and the “Made with Gamma” badge on every export. For a first deck or a decision between the two, it is the cheaper way to test.

Which builds a better deck?

Beautiful.ai gives steadier layouts, and Gamma gives faster first drafts. We ran no quality test, and neither vendor publishes one.

Beautiful.ai starts from a prompt, a full outline or source material, and lets you review the outline before it generates slides. The slides sit on 300+ Smart Slide layouts that realign themselves as you add content, so the deck stays tidy. The price is control: our review notes you get less pixel-level freedom than PowerPoint.

Gamma writes the outline, picks the visuals and lays out the deck from a prompt or an uploaded document, with no template step in between. Reviewers who liked the result said it needed little manual design work. Others said the output can read as generic or repetitive across slides, and that the assistant sometimes ignores specific edit instructions.

If you want a deck on screen in a minute, Gamma. If you want every slide to look like it belongs to the same deck, Beautiful.ai.

Which exports to PowerPoint better?

Beautiful.ai. Its homepage lists export to PDF and PowerPoint, and because it builds on fixed slides there is no format change to survive.

Gamma also exports PPTX, PDF, PNG and Google Slides. The trouble is the format underneath. Gamma’s native deck is a scrollable canvas, and turning it into fixed 16:9 slides is the single most repeated technical complaint in its reviews: broken layouts, flattened animations and embeds, and resized images. If you share a Gamma deck as a live link, you avoid the problem. If your boss wants a .pptx, generate a real deck and open the export first.

Which is better for teams?

Gamma is cheaper to share across a small group, and Beautiful.ai has the deeper admin layer.

Gamma’s real-time editing, live cursors and comments come on every paid plan according to our review. Pro adds a shared brand kit and a team workspace.

Beautiful.ai puts real-time co-editing on the Team plan, along with a centralized slide and template library, version control with locked slides, a shared asset library and viewer permissions. Team is listed at $40 per user a month annually or $50 monthly for 2 to 20 seats. The price header also reads “includes 3 users,” which conflicts with the per-user wording, so confirm the total with sales before you budget for it. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs and SOC 2 Type II.

Brand control is not exclusive to either one. Beautiful.ai’s Pro plan already lists custom branding and a theme builder.

What do Beautiful.ai examples look like?

Beautiful.ai publishes a template gallery at beautiful.ai/presentations. Its templates run from a seed round presentation and a tech startup pitch deck to a consulting proposal and a quarterly sales report, so you can judge the finished look before you start a trial.

We could not open Gamma’s gallery today, so we cannot describe its examples. Gamma’s own product is the faster test: the free plan lets you generate a real deck on a topic you actually need.

Beautiful.ai vs Gamma vs Canva

Canva belongs in the comparison because most people check it anyway. It is a general design platform, and decks are one of more than 1,000 design types. Its free plan is permanent, includes presentations, and gives limited access to AI. Pro is $12 a month billed annually ($144 a year). Canva’s own page did not show the monthly rate in our October check, and trackers report about $18.

Pick Canva if decks are one job among several, or you want the largest free plan. Our Canva review covers its AI limits, which Canva sells as multiples of Free rather than a number. Pick Gamma for speed and the cheapest start. Pick Beautiful.ai when polish and export matter most.

So which should you pick?

Start on Gamma’s free plan if you are undecided, because it costs nothing and needs no card. If the result is a deck you share as a link, you are done. If you need to hand over a clean PowerPoint, or your Gamma export breaks, move to Beautiful.ai’s annual plan and skip the $45 monthly price. If you also design other things, look at Canva first.

Our Beautiful.ai review has the rest of the detail, and Best AI Presentation Makers lines up the wider field.