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Read the guideAI presentation tools collapsed from a crowded field to a two-horse race in 2025. Tome shut down its AI presentation product on April 30, 2025 (the team rebranded as Lightfield to focus on sales intelligence, while AngelList acquired the Tome brand for document summarization). The two viable options as of May 2026 are Gamma at $8 to $100 per month for individual plans and Beautiful.ai at $12 to $40 per seat per month. Gamma uses a credit-based system (400 lifetime credits free, 1,000 per month on Plus, 4,000 on Pro) and competes on speed of AI-generated first drafts. Beautiful.ai uses an unlimited-slides model with template-driven design and competes on polished output and team brand controls. The biggest pricing decision for individuals is Gamma Plus at $8 per month annual versus Beautiful.ai Pro at $12 per month annual, while teams choose between Gamma Team ($20 per seat) and Beautiful.ai Team ($40 per seat). Verified May 2026 pricing direct from gamma.app/pricing and beautiful.ai/pricing.
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Gamma Free credits are a lifetime allotment of 400, not a monthly refresh, heavy free use forces an upgrade
Beautiful.ai monthly billing is roughly 3.75x annual billing on Pro ($45 vs $12), only commit annually if confident
A typical Gamma Create with AI pass costs roughly 40 credits, regenerating a deck multiple times burns hundreds of credits quickly
Premium AI image models on Gamma Pro and Ultra cost more credits per card than standard models
Gamma custom domains require Pro or higher and DNS configuration on your end
Beautiful.ai per-seat pricing scales linearly, a 10-person team on Beautiful.ai Team is $4,800 per year vs Gamma Team at $2,400 per year
Tome shutdown left users with export windows that have now closed, content not migrated by the deadline is no longer accessible
For most individual users, Gamma Plus at $8 per month annual is the best entry point, the watermark removal alone justifies the upgrade and 1,000 monthly credits supports about 25 full presentations. Pick Beautiful.ai Pro at $12 per month annual instead if you value unlimited slides without credit math and prefer Beautiful.ai's more polished design templates over Gamma's faster AI-generated first drafts. Step up to Gamma Pro at $15 per month if you need analytics, custom domains, password protection, or API access, those features are not in Beautiful.ai Pro at $12. For teams, Gamma Team at $20 per seat is half the cost of Beautiful.ai Team at $40 per seat for similar collaboration features, the Beautiful.ai premium is justified only when brand controls and a polished template library are core to your workflow. Avoid Gamma Ultra at $100 per month unless you genuinely produce image-heavy Studio Mode content daily, most professional users overpay at that tier. Tome is no longer a viable option as of April 30, 2025, migrate to Gamma or Beautiful.ai based on whether AI generation speed (Gamma) or polished design (Beautiful.ai) mattered more in your Tome workflow.
No. Tome shut down its AI presentation product on April 30, 2025. The original Tome team rebranded as Lightfield, a sales intelligence company. AngelList acquired the Tome brand and is using it for AI-powered document summarization, which is a different product from the original presentation app. Existing Tome users were given export windows that have now closed. If you are searching for Tome pricing in 2026, migrate to Gamma (closest equivalent on AI-driven first-draft speed) or Beautiful.ai (closest on polished output and team brand controls).
Gamma is cheaper at every comparable tier. Gamma Plus at $8 per month annual undercuts Beautiful.ai Pro at $12 per month annual by 33%. Gamma Team at $20 per seat per month annual is half of Beautiful.ai Team at $40 per seat per month annual. The catch with Gamma is the credit system, you get 1,000 credits per month on Plus, 4,000 on Pro, and a typical full-deck generation costs about 40 credits, so heavy users may run out. Beautiful.ai is unlimited slides at every paid tier, no credit math required.
It depends on your team size and design priorities. For small marketing teams (2 to 10 people) focused on rapid AI-generated first drafts with branded outputs, Gamma Team at $20 per seat per month is excellent value, you get 6,000 credits per seat, custom company theme, shared folders, and admin controls. For marketing teams that prioritize polished, design-system-aligned presentations and have established brand templates, Beautiful.ai Team at $40 per seat justifies the premium with its template library and brand control system. For teams of 10 plus, Gamma Business at $40 per seat or Beautiful.ai Enterprise (custom) become the relevant comparison with full SSO and admin features.
Gamma has a free tier with 400 lifetime AI credits (about 8 to 10 full presentations). Beautiful.ai does not have a permanent free plan, only a 14-day free trial of Pro or Team with full feature access. Tome no longer exists. If you want to evaluate before paying, Gamma Free is the only true free path, you can generate roughly 8 presentations and decide whether to upgrade. Beautiful.ai requires a credit card and converts to billing if you do not cancel within 14 days.
Tome reached 20 million users in 18 months and raised $81.6 million at a $300 million valuation, but its Annual Recurring Revenue stayed under $4 million, users loved the free product but did not convert to paid plans at scale. The company explicitly stated they made every effort to turn Tome Slides into a viable business and ultimately failed to find a sustainable path. The team pivoted to Lightfield, an AI sales intelligence company, where they expect higher willingness to pay from corporate sales teams than from individual creators using a free presentation tool. AngelList separately acquired the Tome brand for document summarization technology.
Gamma Pro at $15 per month annual gives you 4,000 credits per month, premium AI models, custom fonts, password protection, headers and footers, up to 10 custom domains, per-viewer analytics, and API access. Beautiful.ai Pro at $12 per month annual gives you unlimited slides, full DesignerBot AI generation, basic presentation analytics, and single-user access. Gamma Pro is broader and more powerful for technical users who need API access, custom domains, and detailed analytics. Beautiful.ai Pro is simpler and more polished for users who just want unlimited slide creation without managing credit budgets.
Gamma charges credits per AI action. A full Create with AI pass for a presentation costs roughly 40 credits, individual text cards cost 1 to 3 credits, premium AI image generation costs more per card. Plus gives 1,000 credits per month, Pro gives 4,000, Ultra gives 20,000. Beautiful.ai charges nothing per slide, every paid plan includes unlimited slides and unlimited DesignerBot AI generation. The trade-off, Beautiful.ai's design system is more constrained (template-driven), while Gamma's free-form generation is more flexible but burns credits with each iteration. If you regenerate decks frequently or want freedom to experiment without thinking about cost per generation, Beautiful.ai is simpler. If you generate decks more deliberately and want maximum design flexibility, Gamma is more capable.
For most users, no. Gamma and Beautiful.ai dominate the standalone AI presentation category. The notable alternatives are bundled rather than standalone: Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30 per user per month adds AI presentation generation directly inside PowerPoint, which is the right pick if you already pay for Microsoft 365. Canva Magic Studio at $15 per month bundles AI slide generation with a broader design suite for social, video, and print. Notion AI at $15 per user per month is document-first rather than slide-first but supports presentation-style page layouts. Beyond these, smaller players like Decktopus and Plus AI exist but lack the maturity and ecosystem of Gamma and Beautiful.ai.
Almost never. Beautiful.ai monthly billing at $45 per month is 3.75x the annual rate of $12 per month. You would have to be planning to use the tool for less than 4 months to break even on monthly versus annual billing. For any sustained use case, lock in annual. The same dynamic applies to Gamma but with a smaller gap, Plus is $8 annual vs $10 monthly and Pro is $15 annual vs $20 monthly, roughly a 25% premium for the flexibility of monthly billing. Annual is almost always the right choice on both platforms if you intend to use the tool for more than a quarter.
Yes on both. Gamma supports export to PDF and PowerPoint on all tiers including Free. Beautiful.ai supports export to PDF and PowerPoint on all paid plans. PowerPoint export quality varies, Beautiful.ai's template-driven design typically translates more cleanly to PPTX than Gamma's free-form layouts, which can lose some polish in the export. If PowerPoint compatibility is critical to your workflow (handing off to clients who edit in PowerPoint), test both with your actual content during the Beautiful.ai trial or Gamma Free credits before committing.
DesignerBot is Beautiful.ai's AI generation feature, equivalent to Gamma's Create with AI. You provide a prompt or upload a document and DesignerBot generates a structured outline first, showing slide-by-slide bullet points, then produces designed slides with relevant visuals. You can edit at the outline level before any design work happens. DesignerBot is included on all paid plans (Pro, Team, Enterprise) with unlimited generations, no credit math involved. It is the main parity feature with Gamma's AI generation and a key reason Beautiful.ai stayed competitive after Tome's collapse.
Pick Gamma if you used Tome primarily for fast AI-driven first drafts, Gamma is the closest match on the speed-of-generation use case and Gamma Plus at $8 per month annual is the cheapest path to branded outputs. Pick Beautiful.ai if you used Tome for polished, design-forward presentations and valued template-driven consistency, Beautiful.ai Pro at $12 per month annual delivers unlimited slides with stronger out-of-the-box design polish. If you used Tome for client-facing presentations with custom domains and analytics, Gamma Pro at $15 per month is the best match. If your Tome use was mostly within a marketing or sales team with shared brand assets, Beautiful.ai Team ($40 per seat) or Gamma Team ($20 per seat) are the right comparisons.