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Gamma vs Motionit

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. Gamma publishes a starting price ($8); Motionit does not. Both have a free tier. Only Gamma ships a public API.

GammaPrompts become decks, docs and sites you can publishMotionitBuilds slide decks from text, documents or a webpage URL

Side by side

FactGammaMotionit
CategoryPresentation & Slide GeneratorsPresentation & Slide Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$8 month—
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CompanyGamma—
Launched2020—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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 $8/user/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

Motionit

A small indie deck generator whose one real selling point is handing you an editable Google Slides file instead of locking the deck in its own viewer. Set against Gamma or Decktopus it is thin, and the free plan is too small to judge the output properly.

Pros

  • Accepts text, PDF/DOCX uploads and URLs as input
  • Google Slides handoff keeps the last-mile edits in a familiar editor
  • Guided templates for pitch, education and how-to formats
  • Free tier exists, unlike several rivals

Cons

  • Editing in Google Slides is gated behind the paid plan
  • Free plan is roughly three slides a month, effectively a taster
  • No pricing page - amounts only appear inside the signed-in account
  • No company details, no API, and a very small team footprint

Which one fits

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

Choose Motionit if you need

  • Students and teachers turning notes or a PDF into a first-draft lesson deck
  • Founders wanting a rough pitch-deck skeleton to rewrite by hand
  • People whose workflow ends in Google Slides anyway

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