Minute Verdict
Gamma turns a prompt, a pasted document or an imported PDF into a deck, a document, a one-page site or an image, and hands back cards you drag rather than slides you align. Plus is $9 a seat a month billed yearly, with 1,500 credits and the Gamma badge removed, and that is the plan a solo buyer should price first. Pro at $18 a seat a month billed yearly buys 4,000 credits, custom branding, analytics and 10 custom domains, which is the step up a small agency takes and a solo buyer rarely needs.
Best for: a consultant, a marketer or a teacher who needs a clean deck today and will not open PowerPoint to build it. Not for: a team that needs a month-to-month licence or every slide locked to a corporate template. From: $9/mo billed yearly, checked November 8, 2026
What Gamma does
Gamma is a generator of visual documents. You give it a prompt, paste a text, or import a PDF or a PowerPoint, and it returns a structured set of cards for a presentation, a document, a one-page website, a social post or an image. The unit is the card, not the slide: a card holds one idea, carries its own layout, and the canvas lets you move, resize and restyle it, or drop into a freeform mode when a card does not fit the story.
The company describes the product as a visual communication platform with an AI agent that runs the first pass and takes changes in chat, beside the deck rather than in a separate settings panel. Gamma says the agent picks a model for each part of the job, that an outline comes before the design so the story is validated first, and that the generation runs on Claude, ChatGPT with DALL-E, Gemini, Flux, Recraft, Playground, Ideogram, Luma and Leonardo. Those are the company’s claims, not measurements of ours.
The output is where most buyers decide. Export to PowerPoint, PDF and PNG sits on the free plan as well as the paid ones, Google Slides is listed with them, and PDF and PPTX import on the way in, so Gamma can sit before or after an existing office workflow instead of replacing it. The website side publishes to a custom domain, which is where the plan caps start to bite: 10 custom domains on Pro, 100 on Ultra. An API is open on every plan, documented at developers.gamma.app, and it spends AI credits like any other generation.
What it is not: a template system with a locked master, and not a statistics tool. A brand team that hands a deck around for approval gets a shared workspace and a brand kit, but the layout of each card is generated, so two decks on the same brand do not come out identical unless the theme is used, and Gamma lists custom branding from Pro upward.
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What you get for the money
| Plan | Price | What is included | The limit that matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 400 credits at signup, 10 slides per prompt, all exports, PDF and PPTX import | The Gamma badge stays on shared and exported content |
| Plus | $9 a seat a month billed yearly, $108 a year | 1,500 monthly credits, 100 slides per prompt, badge removed, advanced image models | A seat per person, and the yearly commitment |
| Pro | $18 a seat a month billed yearly, $216 a year | 4,000 monthly credits, premium image models, custom branding, analytics, 10 custom domains | 10 domains and no month-to-month option |
| Ultra | $90 a seat a month billed yearly, $1,080 a year | 20,000 monthly credits, the most advanced text, image and video models, 100 custom domains | Priced for heavy generation |
| Business | Quoted on the pricing page, billed annually per member | Everything in Pro, SSO, SOC 2 documentation, locked training opt-out, 10,000 credits a seat a month | Annual only, and sold per member |
The entry price buys 1,500 credits a month, the Gamma badge off the output, 100 slides per prompt and the advanced image models, which is the difference between a deck that looks like a demo and a deck that can go to a client. Paying yearly is the only rate on the grid: twelve months of Plus is $108, of Pro $216, of Ultra $1,080, and Gamma advertises the yearly view as up to 28% below monthly billing. Credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance, so a Plus account can hold 3,000 at the start of a quiet month, and paid users can buy more when a project runs long.
Export is the same on every plan: the badge, not the format, is what the first $9 removes.
Where it falls short
Credits are the real meter, and the meter is elastic. Gamma states that the number an action spends depends on the task, the model and the length of the generation, so 1,500 credits on Plus is not a count of decks. A month of image-heavy work spends it faster than a month of text outlines, and the rollover, capped at twice the allowance, only covers a slowdown, not a spike.
Every paid individual plan is billed yearly. The monthly subscription exists, Gamma documents it in its own help centre, and the frequency toggle sits in the billing window, but the pricing grid opens on the yearly view, and the saving of up to 28% is exactly the price of a twelve-month commitment. Business is annual per member with no monthly route at all, so a team that wants a one-month trial of the paid product is buying the free plan plus a refund window.
A seat is a seat. Individual plans charge for each member of the workspace, an added member is billed at once and prorated for the days left in the cycle, and Gamma says plainly that removing a member does not reduce the billed seat count until the seat count is edited by hand in the members tab. A workspace that churns freelancers pays for seats nobody uses until someone goes back into settings.
The caps arrive early for an agency. Pro publishes 10 custom domains and Ultra 100, with no add-on listed for a domain past the cap, and the free plan stops at 10 slides per prompt against 100 on Plus.
Gamma alternatives
- Canva Pro, $144 a year for one person, which is $12 a month, for a deck built by hand from a template library rather than generated from a brief: the tool directory.
- Framer Basic, $10 a month billed yearly, when the job is the website rather than the deck and the page has to be published on your own domain: the Framer review.
- Beautiful.ai Pro, $14.50 a month billed yearly, for slides that stay inside a template system from the first card to the last: the AI tools we cover.
Who it is for: Gamma
It fits a solo operator who sells thinking and has to show it: a consultant assembling a proposal, a marketer turning a strategy memo into a client deck, a teacher rebuilding a course into slides, a founder who needs a one-page site for a launch next week. The value is in the first twenty minutes, when the outline and the layout arrive together, and $9 a seat a month billed yearly is less than an hour of a designer’s time.
It does not fit a company that has to hold a fixed template, because the generator lays out each card and the brand kit constrains the palette and the fonts rather than the grid. Nor does it fit a team that wants to pay monthly and stop when the project stops: the yearly billing is the published rate, and Business is annual per member. A buyer who needs a locked master, a monthly invoice or a per-deck licence reads the build tools we cover page.
How we checked
This is a research review, and how we test explains what changes when a page goes hands-on. We have not used Gamma, so there is no hands-on score, no timing and no sample deck. Every amount was read on November 8, 2026 on the pricing page, in the annual billing view, which is the view the page opens on, and the plan content, the per-member rule, the monthly option and the refund window were read the same day in Gamma’s help centre. The month-to-month figures behind the other toggle could not be opened on that date, so no monthly amount appears on this page. A test would settle what a credit buys on a real deck.
What to do next
Build one real deck on the free plan first, with the document you already have rather than a test prompt, and watch how many credits the first pass spends before deciding between Plus and Pro. Move to Plus when the badge has to go, and to Pro only when custom branding, analytics or a second custom domain becomes the blocker. If the deck has to match a template pixel for pixel, or the invoice has to be monthly, stop and price an alternative before paying for a year.
FAQ
Is Gamma free? A free plan at $0 exists. It carries 400 credits at signup, generates up to 10 slides per prompt, and exports to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides with the Gamma badge on the output.
How much does Gamma cost? Plus is $9 a seat a month billed yearly, $108 per seat a year. Pro is $18 a seat a month billed yearly, $216 a year. Ultra is $90 a seat a month billed yearly, $1,080 a year. Business is quoted on the pricing page and billed annually per member.
Does Gamma have a free trial? No timed trial is published. The free plan plays that role, and a refund can be requested within the first three days of a subscription if credit usage stays under the plan threshold.
What do Gamma credits buy? Credits pay for the AI functions. The number an action spends depends on the task, the model used and the length of the generation, and paid plans carry a monthly allowance that rolls over up to twice its size.
Is there a Gamma discount? Paying yearly is the discount, advertised as up to 28% against monthly billing. Gamma also runs an affiliate program through its help centre. No promo code is quoted here because none was tested at checkout.
Sources
Sources
- https://gamma.app/pricing (checked November 8, 2026)
- https://help.gamma.app/en/articles/8077107-how-can-i-upgrade-my-gamma-subscription (checked November 8, 2026)
- https://help.gamma.app/en/articles/11048064-is-there-a-one-month-subscription-option-available (checked November 8, 2026)
- https://help.gamma.app/en/articles/11048258-what-does-per-member-billing-mean-in-gamma (checked November 8, 2026)
- https://help.gamma.app/en/articles/11048496-what-is-gamma-s-refund-policy-and-how-do-i-request-a-refund (checked November 8, 2026)
Update log
Published November 8, 2026. Prices and plan limits checked November 8, 2026 on the pricing page in the annual billing view, with the help centre read the same day.
