The verdict
If momentum matters more than pixel control, and you often need a deck, a document or a quick microsite fast, pick Gamma. Edit the draft, and read every card before it leaves the building.
If you send many sales or pitch decks under your name and need them on brand by default across a team, pick Beautiful.ai.
One practical test settles most cases. Apply your brand colours, fonts and logo in both during the trial. If Gamma bends to your brand well enough, its speed wins. If it does not, Beautiful.ai is the safer choice. If a strict brand template is the main requirement, I'd lean to Beautiful.ai.
Side by side
| 7 points compared | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $14.50/mo | $8/mo |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| AI diagram generation | Yes | Yes |
| Brand kit | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes | Yes |
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Plans and pricing
Beautiful.ai
- Pro$174/yr
- Team$50/mo/seat
Gamma
- FreeFree
- Plus$8/mo/seat
- Pro$18/mo/seat
- Ultra$100/mo/seat
- Business$480/yr/seat
Who each is for
Choose Beautiful.ai if…
Pick Beautiful.ai if your team builds many similar decks, such as sales proposals or investor updates, and wants the result on brand with little effort. Brand colours, fonts and logos are set once in a theme and shared. Chart slides can link to Airtable and Smartsheet, and sharing comes with view tracking and voice-overs.
The AI workflow lets you review a slide-by-slide outline before it generates the deck. A documented API can create decks from a prompt or a template.
There is no free plan, only a trial. Layouts limit fine control, so skip it if you want pixel-level freedom.
Choose Gamma if…
Pick Gamma if you are a founder or operator who would rather edit an AI draft than build slides from a blank page. The card model works for longer scrolling documents as well as slides, and sharing as a web link is easier than emailing a heavy file.
It has a free plan, an API and an official MCP server. The API needs Pro or higher, so do not start on the free plan if automation is the point.
Decks can look made in Gamma unless you customise them, and generated copy is generic until a person edits it. Export a copy for any venue where the connection is uncertain.
Other options worth a look
Generates branded designs and presentations from text prompts using AI and a large template library.
Drafts and rewrites presentations from prompts or documents inside the Google Slides and PowerPoint you already use.
Microsoft's presentation software for sales decks, pitches and reports, free on the web and in Microsoft 365.