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Beautiful.ai vs Gamma

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan
Gamma — $9/mo vs $14.50/mo for Beautiful.ai
Free plan
Only Gamma (Beautiful.ai has paid plans only)
Public API
Gamma has one; not confirmed by us for Beautiful.ai
Best fit
Beautiful.ai: Sales and consulting teams who need every deck to look the same · Gamma: Anyone who needs a presentable deck out of rough notes in minutes
Trust score
About even — Beautiful.ai 94, Gamma 90

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Beautiful.aiPresentation builder whose slide layouts rearrange themselves as you typeGammaPrompts become decks, docs and sites you can publish

Side by side

FactBeautiful.aiGamma
CategoryPresentation & Slide GeneratorsPresentation & Slide Generators
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$14.50/mo$9/mo
Public APINot confirmedYes
Trust score94 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsWebWeb, API
CompanyBeautiful.aiGamma Tech, Inc.
Launched20152020
Last verifiedOct 16, 2026Oct 23, 2026

What our research says

Beautiful.ai

Buys you consistency rather than creativity — the layout engine stops non-designers producing ugly slides, which is worth real money in a sales org, but you are locked into its idea of what a slide is.

Pros

  • Smart-slide rules genuinely prevent the usual amateur layout failures
  • Brand locking and shared libraries make team consistency the default, not a review step
  • Long-established product rather than a recent generative wrapper

Cons

  • Month-to-month Pro is $45 against $14.50 on annual billing, so the headline price is a twelve-month commitment
  • Editing is web-only, with no mobile app and no public API found
  • The layout engine resists you the moment you want something bespoke
  • No free plan for non-students — evaluation is a 14-day trial that wants a card and bills automatically

Gamma

The tool that genuinely displaced PowerPoint for a lot of people, and it is profitable enough not to need your money - but credits, not seats, decide how much a plan is actually worth.

Pros

  • Layout and image choice happen without picking a template first
  • One document publishes as a deck, a doc or a live web page
  • Plus at $9 per seat per month already removes the Gamma badge
  • Profitable at over $100M ARR, so the vendor is not a runway risk

Cons

  • Credit accounting is opaque - a premium image can cost up to 125 credits
  • API keys are locked to Pro and above
  • The free plan's 400 signup credits do not go far on image-rich decks
  • Export fidelity to PowerPoint degrades on complex layouts

Which one fits

Choose Beautiful.ai if you need

  • Sales and consulting teams who need every deck to look the same
  • Non-designers who would otherwise drag boxes around in PowerPoint
  • Organisations enforcing brand rules across many authors

Choose Gamma if you need

  • Anyone who needs a presentable deck out of rough notes in minutes
  • Teams publishing one-page sites and documents without a website tool
  • Users who want AI layout but expect to keep editing afterwards

Beautiful.ai vs Gamma: the questions people ask

Is Beautiful.ai cheaper than Gamma?

On published entry prices, Gamma starts lower — $9/mo against $14.50/mo for Beautiful.ai. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Beautiful.ai or Gamma have a free tier?

Gamma has a free tier; Beautiful.ai has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, Beautiful.ai or Gamma?

Gamma ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Beautiful.ai is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.

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