Plus AI vs Gamma: Pricing, PowerPoint Export and Document Upload Compared
One lives inside PowerPoint and Google Slides. The other is a web canvas you export from. Both bill per user and both meter AI in credits. Here is what each tier really costs, read from the vendors’ own pages, and which one to buy for a deck a client will open.
Parsing
Extracted outline section → slide
Every slide traces to a section of the source. Nothing is invented.
Sample documents shown. Your own uploads are private and never used to train AI models.
In short
Plus AI and Gamma are both AI presentation makers billed per user with metered AI credits, and the real difference is where the deck is born. Plus AI is an add-in that generates slides directly inside PowerPoint and Google Slides, so there is no export step: its Pro plan is $20 per user per month billed annually ($25 monthly) with 3,000 credits and document uploads. Gamma generates web cards in its own editor and exports a .pptx afterwards; third-party breakdowns put Gamma Pro at about $18 per seat per month billed annually with 4,000 credits, and Gamma’s help center confirms per-member billing on every paid plan. Buy Plus AI if the file has to be native PowerPoint or Slides from the first minute and your team already works there. Buy Gamma if you present from the web, want a free tier to evaluate on, and can live with an export that Gamma itself says may differ from the edit view. If the deck is really a report you have already written, a flat-priced converter that reads the whole document and names the source section under every slide is the route neither of them offers, and it is covered at the end of this page.
Last updated September 2026
What you get
Plus AI vs Gamma, done the document-first way
Nothing is metered
No credits, no per-task range to estimate, no top-ups. A ninety-page report and a six-page memo cost the same to convert, and a heavy month costs the same as a quiet one.
The document is the input
Plus AI and Gamma start from a prompt, an outline or a file you then steer. Docslide starts from the report that already holds the argument and builds one slide per section, each naming where it came from.
Native .pptx without an add-in
A real PowerPoint file with editable text boxes and speaker notes, generated in the browser. No add-in to install, no IT approval for a plug-in, and no export step where layout can shift.
No watermark on any plan
Every tier exports clean, so there is no badge to remove and nothing to rebuild after an upgrade.
Your wording, not a paraphrase
Every slide traces back to a named section of your source and the supporting paragraph moves into the notes. If it is not in your document, it is not in your deck.
Flat pricing for the whole team
Solo is $30 a month and Team is $89.50 a month as one subscription, billed yearly. Five people or fifteen, the bill is the same.
How it works
From your document to a finished deck, in four steps
Decide where the deck has to live
If it must be born inside PowerPoint or Slides, Plus AI is the specialist. If it is presented from the web, Gamma is. If it is a written report that has to become a deck, neither is built for that, and the next three steps are the alternative.
Upload the document you already wrote
A PDF or .docx up to 20 MB, or pasted text. It runs in the browser, so there is no add-in to install and no plan tier on someone else’s account to check.
Review by source section
Every slide names the section it was built from, so cutting what does not belong and merging thin sections is a scan of the deck, not a re-read of the report.
Export the .pptx and apply your theme
Download a native PowerPoint file with editable text boxes and speaker notes citing the source section. In PowerPoint choose Design, then your own template, and every slide reflows onto your masters.
Compare
Plus AI vs Gamma on the nine things that decide the bill and the file
Plus AI figures were read from plusai.com/pricing on 10 September 2026. Gamma’s pricing page does not render without a browser session, so Gamma plan prices come from several independent 2026 breakdowns that agree with each other, while the credit, billing and export rows come from Gamma’s own help center. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, the cell says so.
| What decides it | Plus AI | Gamma | Why it matters for client work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the deck is made | Inside PowerPoint and Google Slides, as an add-in. The slides are native objects in the host app from the start | In Gamma’s web editor, as cards. PowerPoint is an export you run afterwards | If the deliverable is a .pptx, Plus AI removes the step where most damage happens |
| Price per user | Basic $10, Pro $20, Team $30, Max $200 per user per month billed annually; $15, $25, $40 and $240 billed monthly | Per member on every paid plan. 2026 breakdowns list Plus at about $9, Pro $18 and Ultra $90 per seat per month annual, roughly $12, $25 and $100 monthly | Neither gets cheaper as headcount grows. At the Pro tier both sit near $20 a seat, so the credit rows below decide the real bill |
| AI credits per month | Basic 1,500, Pro 3,000, Team 6,000, Max unlimited. Plus AI states that tasks typically use between 40 and 170 credits depending on complexity | Plus 1,000, Pro 4,000, Ultra 20,000. Gamma states the cost per generation varies by model, length and complexity; unused credits roll over up to double the plan size | Plus AI publishes a per-task range, which lets you estimate decks per month. Gamma does not, so the allowance is harder to forecast |
| What you do when credits run out | Move up a tier. The pricing page lists no top-up rate below Max, which is unlimited at $200 per user per month | Buy more at 1,500 credits for $6, in fixed increments, while subscribed | Gamma’s overflow is cheap and granular. Plus AI’s overflow is a plan change, which is a bigger jump |
| Free tier | None. All paid plans start with a 7-day free trial that includes 1,000 credits | A free plan with 400 one-time credits that do not refresh, and exports carry a "Made with Gamma" badge | Gamma is the only one of the two you can evaluate without a card, though not for long |
| Uploading a document you already wrote | Pro and above: document uploads (PDF, docx, txt) and prompts of 100K+ characters. Basic cannot ingest a file | Paste or import text and files into the web editor; the result is Gamma cards, not slides, until you export | On Plus AI the file-upload row costs $20 per user, not $10. Check the tier before you count on it |
| PowerPoint export | Not an export. The deck is already a PowerPoint or Slides file with native text boxes | PPTX export on paid plans with theme fonts embedded. Gamma documents that exports reflect Present Mode rather than Edit Mode, so layout may differ from the editor | Gamma’s font embedding is the best in the category, but the layout caveat is Gamma’s own, not ours |
| Branding and templates | Team tier ($30 per user per month annual) for custom branding, logo, colors and fonts, plus team-wide templates and a shared preset library | Custom fonts on Pro; the Gamma badge is removed from Plus upward | Brand control costs $10 more per seat on Plus AI than the Pro tier that unlocks uploads |
| Enterprise controls | An Enterprise plan with SSO, user management and white-glove onboarding, priced on request | Not published at the same level of detail; billing is per active member and reduced by removing members | If security review is part of the purchase, Plus AI is the easier of the two to document |
Related
The table above settles the facts. What it cannot settle is which one your team should pay for, and that depends on two questions neither pricing page asks: where do your decks have to live, and does the content already exist as a document?
Is Plus AI better than Gamma?
Plus AI is better when the deck must be a native PowerPoint or Google Slides file and your team already works in those apps. Gamma is better when you present from a browser, want the fastest first draft, and need a free tier to test on. Neither is better in the abstract, because they are built around different assumptions about where a presentation lives.
Plus AI assumes the world runs on slide decks and is not going to stop. It installs as an add-in, generates inside the host application, and the result is a real PowerPoint or Slides file from the first second, with native text boxes, native layouts and nothing to export. The trade-off is that you are working inside PowerPoint’s or Slides’ own editor with an AI panel beside it, which is exactly what corporate teams want and exactly what people who dislike PowerPoint were trying to escape.
Gamma assumes the slide deck is a legacy format and offers a scrolling, card-based web canvas instead. The drafts are fast and look deliberate. The trade-off is the handoff: a Gamma deck becomes a .pptx only through an export, and Gamma’s own help center says that export reflects Present Mode rather than Edit Mode and that layout or styling may differ. If nobody ever opens the file in PowerPoint, that is irrelevant. If a client does, it is the whole decision.
Which is cheaper, Plus AI or Gamma?
At the entry tier Gamma is cheaper; at the tier most business users actually need, they are close. Gamma Plus runs about $9 per seat per month billed annually against Plus AI Basic at $10, but Plus AI Basic cannot upload a document, so a team that starts from written material has to buy Pro at $20. Gamma Pro is around $18 on annual billing. Call it a wash on the seat.
The credits are where the two diverge. Plus AI publishes a range, 40 to 170 credits per task depending on complexity, so a Pro seat with 3,000 credits is somewhere between about 18 and 75 tasks a month, and a full-deck generation sits at the heavy end of that range. Gamma gives Pro 4,000 credits but does not publish a per-task rate, only that it varies by model and complexity, and it sells overflow at 1,500 credits for $6. So Gamma is easier to top up and harder to forecast; Plus AI is easier to forecast and, if you run out, the next step is a $10 per seat jump to Team or a $180 jump to Max.
Multiply either by headcount before you decide. Both bill per user. A five-person team on Pro is roughly $100 a month on Plus AI and roughly $90 on Gamma, before any overflow, and both numbers move with every hire.
Does Plus AI work with PowerPoint?
Yes, and that is its main advantage over Gamma. Plus AI runs as an add-in inside PowerPoint and inside Google Slides, generates slides as native objects in whichever app you are in, and its pricing page states that every plan includes both. There is no export, no font substitution and no second menu entry that hands over pictures, because the deck never left PowerPoint.
What that does not give you is a document converter. Plus AI generates from a prompt, from an outline, or on Pro and above from an uploaded PDF, docx or txt file, and it also inserts or rewrites single slides in a deck you already have. It is an assistant inside the editor. If your input is a 40-page report and your output is a 15-slide summary with the reasoning behind each slide, you will still be steering it slide by slide, and every regeneration spends credits.
Plus AI vs Gamma vs Beautiful.ai
Beautiful.ai is the third name in this search and it changes the comparison in one useful way: it is the only one of the three that does not meter AI generation. Its Pro plan is $14.50 per user per month billed annually with "Unlimited AI content generation" listed as a feature, and its Team plan is $40 per user per month. The cost is design freedom, because Beautiful.ai enforces its own Smart Slide layouts, and the export is a compromise the vendor itself advises against in a post titled "How to Export to PPT and Why You Shouldn’t".
Ranked on where the file lives: Plus AI (native from the start), then Gamma and Beautiful.ai (export). Ranked on predictability of spend: Beautiful.ai (flat seat), then Plus AI (published per-task range), then Gamma (unpublished rate, cheap top-ups). Ranked on speed to a good-looking first draft: Gamma, then Beautiful.ai, then Plus AI. The Gamma and Beautiful.ai pair is taken apart on Gamma vs Beautiful.ai, and if Canva is also on the list, Gamma vs Canva covers that one.
Which should a US team actually buy?
Buy Plus AI if your company standardizes on PowerPoint or Google Slides, if the files go to clients or executives who edit them, if you want an AI that helps inside the deck you already have, and if procurement will ask about SSO and user management. Take the Pro tier, not Basic, if you ever intend to upload a document.
Buy Gamma if your decks are presented from a browser or shared as links, if you want the fastest structured draft in the category, if you need to evaluate at $0 before anyone signs, and if the occasional layout shift on a .pptx export is a nuisance rather than a problem.
Buy neither if the content already exists as a document. Both tools are authoring environments with an AI in them. Most business decks are not authored from nothing. They are a report, a proposal, an analysis or a board paper that is already written, reviewed and approved, and now has to be presented on Thursday. Paying per seat and per credit to have an assistant re-author what you already wrote is the expensive way to do that job.
The third route: convert the report you already wrote, at a flat price
Docslide takes the document as the input. Upload the PDF or Word file, up to 20 MB, or paste the text, and it reads the sections and figures, writes a native .pptx with real editable text boxes, puts the supporting paragraph into the speaker notes, and names the source section under every slide so a reviewer can trace each claim back to the report. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and it opens in PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote like any other PowerPoint file. There is no watermark on any plan.
Two things it does not do, stated here rather than in a support ticket. It does not ingest a .potx: the deck lands on a clean master slide with real placeholders, so applying your brand is one Design-tab step in PowerPoint. And it does not build chart objects: figures from your tables reach the slide as your own numbers in editable text. If either of those is the requirement, Plus AI Team is the closer fit.
Pricing is flat rather than per user or per credit: Solo is $30 a month and Team is $89.50 a month as one subscription for the whole team, billed yearly, with unlimited documents under fair use. Regenerating the same report ten times in an afternoon costs nothing extra, and adding a reviewer does not change the bill. Docslide converts and designs what you give it, does not invent content you never wrote, and is not a Plus AI or Gamma product or integration.
If you have already picked one of the two, the practical pages are the Plus AI alternative for whole-document conversion, Gamma to PowerPoint for the export mechanics, Gamma pricing for the credit arithmetic, and why Gamma PowerPoint exports break when a client opens the file and something has moved.
Questions
Plus AI vs Gamma: the questions people actually ask
Is Plus AI better than Gamma?
Which is cheaper, Plus AI or Gamma?
Does Plus AI have a free plan?
How many credits does Plus AI use per presentation?
Can Plus AI create a presentation from a PDF?
Does Gamma export to PowerPoint better than Plus AI?
Plus AI vs Gamma vs Beautiful.ai: which for a team?
What is the alternative if I already have the report written?
Your next deck is already written
Send the document to Docslide and get back a finished, editable deck: layouts, your figures carried onto the slide, and speaker notes, exported natively to PowerPoint.