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Gamma vs Zoho Show

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); Zoho Show does not. Both have a free tier. Only Gamma ships a public API.

GammaPrompts become decks, docs and sites you can publishZoho ShowFree online presentation editor from Zoho with an AI assistant that drafts a full slide deck from a text prompt.

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FactGammaZoho Show
CategoryPresentation & Slide GeneratorsPresentation & Slide Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumFree
Starts at$8 month—
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CompanyGammaZoho Corporation
Launched2020—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 1, 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

Zoho Show

Zoho Show works as a free, full-featured slide editor even without touching its AI layer, and Zia AI turning a one-line prompt into a formatted deck saves the blank-page step. The catch is that AI-drafted content still needs a human editing pass, and it lives inside Zoho's account and app ecosystem rather than as a standalone tool.

Pros

  • Entirely free with no ads on the standalone product
  • Zia AI drafts a themed, multi-slide deck from a short prompt
  • Zia can also generate slide images, expand titles, and condense long text
  • Real-time collaborative editing with a large template library

Cons

  • AI-generated decks need manual cleanup for a polished result
  • Deeper Zoho integrations require the paid Workplace suite
  • Less standalone brand recognition for presentations specifically than PowerPoint or Google Slides

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 Zoho Show if you need

  • Teams already using Zoho apps who want free slides with light AI drafting
  • Quick internal decks where speed matters more than pixel-level polish
  • Anyone wanting a no-cost alternative to PowerPoint or Google Slides

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