Copilot vs Gemini for PowerPoint: Pricing, Slide Generation and Which One Builds a Deck From Your Report

The table settles what each one costs and what each one does. What it cannot settle is the case that sends most people searching in the first place: you have a finished report, and you need it as slides by Thursday.

Is Copilot better than Gemini for presentations?

For building a deck, yes, on the evidence available in 2026. Copilot in PowerPoint generates a complete deck from a single prompt or from a Word document, and independent hands-on tests through the year describe it producing 10 to 20 slides in one pass with sensible layouts and stock imagery. Gemini in Google Slides has been repeatedly described in the same tests as generating a slide at a time, which turns a 30-slide deck into a long sequence of instructions. Gemini is the stronger of the two at generating images inside a deck.

That said, the comparison is academic for most buyers, because of the last row in the table. You cannot run Copilot in PowerPoint on Google Workspace, and you cannot run Gemini in Slides on Microsoft 365. Whichever suite your company standardized on years ago has already made this decision. The useful question is not which is better, it is what yours will do with the document in your hand.

How much do Copilot and Gemini cost per user?

They are priced on completely different models, and this is where the real money difference sits. Microsoft sells the AI separately. Its pricing page lists Microsoft 365 Copilot Business at "now starting from $18.00 user/month, paid yearly", a promotional rate against a normal $21, running through 31 December 2026, and notes that it "requires a separate license for a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan". The enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on is widely listed at $30 per user per month on an annual commitment. So a seat costs the suite plus the AI.

Google does not charge a separate AI fee any more. Gemini is bundled into Workspace, and the pricing page distinguishes tiers by how much access you get rather than by an add-on: Business Starter carries basic access, while Standard, Plus and Enterprise carry expanded access across Gmail, Docs, Meet and Gemini Notebook. We are not quoting a US dollar Workspace figure here because that page served prices in Polish zloty from our location, and a guessed number is worse than none.

The practical read for a US team of ten: on Microsoft you are adding roughly $180 to $300 a month on top of a suite you already pay for, and on Google you are either already covered or looking at a plan upgrade for everyone.

Can Copilot create a PowerPoint from a Word document?

Yes, and it is the best thing it does. Open PowerPoint, choose to create a presentation from a file, and point Copilot at a Word document. The requirements catch people out: the file has to live in OneDrive or SharePoint rather than on your desktop, and Microsoft documents a 24 MB ceiling. A long report with images clears that ceiling more often than you would expect.

The result is a readable deck. It is not your report. Copilot summarizes and rewrites the document into slide-sized points rather than preserving your sentences, and it does not reliably rebuild Word tables as charts. For an internal update or a first structural draft that is fine and genuinely fast. For a document whose wording was argued over, that rewrite is the problem, and there is more detail in our Word to PowerPoint breakdown.

What neither one does with a finished report

Both tools treat your document as raw material for a new deck. Neither treats it as the deck. That distinction sounds pedantic until the first time someone in the room asks where a number came from, and nobody can point at the paragraph behind it.

That is the gap Docslide fills, and it is deliberately a narrow one. Upload a PDF or Word file up to 20 MB. Every section of the document becomes a slide, and each slide names the source section it was built from, so tracing a claim back to the report is a glance rather than a search. The figures in your tables reach the slide as your own numbers in editable text. The supporting paragraphs become speaker notes instead of disappearing. What comes out is a native .pptx with real text boxes that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, which means it does not matter which of the two suites above your company bought.

It is not an assistant and it does not answer questions about your files. It does one conversion, repeatably, for $30 a month on Solo and $89.50 a month for a whole team on the Team plan, billed yearly, with no free tier and no watermark on any plan. If your input is usually a PDF rather than Word, PDF to PowerPoint covers that path, and report to presentation covers the longer documents.

Which should you actually buy?

If your company is on Microsoft 365 and people build decks from scratch several times a week, the Copilot add-on earns its money, and our Copilot comparison goes deeper on where it stops. If you are on Workspace, Gemini is already in your plan and there is nothing to decide. If the recurring job is turning documents that already exist into decks that keep their numbers and their wording, neither one is built for it, and a flat-priced converter is cheaper than a per-seat AI license that still leaves you retyping.