Comparison · October 2026
Compare AI presentation tools
The right tool depends on the file you have to deliver, so this page does not rank anything. It sets Slaide, Gamma, Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini in Google Slides, Canva, Beautiful.ai, Pitch and Presentations.AI side by side on eight criteria. Every cell links to the vendor's own page, every source carries its date, and where the pages say nothing the cell says “not stated”.
Published by Slaide, one of the tools compared. No tool gets a score.
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The short version
Which tool fits which job?
One short line per tool, drawn from the table below. Pick the row that matches your job, then check the facts in the table before you decide.
- Publisher of this page
Slaide
Browser app with a Free plan
- A good fit for
- People who need PowerPoint, Word and Excel files, starting from their own .pptx and brand.
- Strong on
- Office files for slides, A4 pages and workbooks from one place; a brand kit that can be read from a website.
Beautiful.ai
Browser app
- A good fit for
- Teams that work in Beautiful.ai's smart slides and accept that this logic does not carry over to PowerPoint.
- Strong on
- Imports any .pptx and inherits its theme where possible; states that AI data is not used to train public LLMs.
- Watch for
- No free plan, and a 14-day trial needs a card; research and Word or Excel output are not stated.
Canva
Design suite with Canva AI for presentations
- A good fit for
- Marketers and designers who want one design suite for decks, social and print, with a Free plan.
- Strong on
- Brand Kit, a Free plan, and .pptx import of up to 300 slides.
- Watch for
- PowerPoint import is in beta and ignores charts and SmartArt; data is stored in the United States by default.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT, including ChatGPT Work
- A good fit for
- People who already work in ChatGPT and want a deck, a Word file and an Excel file from one conversation.
- Strong on
- Web search with inline citations on every plan, a Free plan, and .pptx, .docx and .xlsx creation.
- Watch for
- OpenAI says template matching and advanced chart, shape or formatting edits can need manual refinement.
Claude
Claude, including the Claude for PowerPoint add-in
- A good fit for
- Analysts and consultants who want an assistant inside their open deck, with native charts and Word and Excel files too.
- Strong on
- Reads the slide master, layouts, fonts and colors of the open deck and builds native, editable charts.
- Watch for
- The add-in needs Pro or higher, and Anthropic advises human review before final client deliverables.
Gamma
Browser app
- A good fit for
- A visual deck or web page from a prompt, with PowerPoint export on every plan.
- Strong on
- Imports a .pptx as a workspace template, offers a Research option, and takes theme colors, fonts and logo.
- Watch for
- No Word export, a blank slide master in exported files, and AI training is on by default for individual plans (opt-out in settings).
Gemini in Google Slides
Gemini in Google Slides, with a Workspace or Google AI plan
- A good fit for
- Google Workspace teams that draft decks in Google Slides and want them to match an existing deck.
- Strong on
- Works in Slides, Docs and Sheets; Workspace data regions in the US or Europe on supported editions.
- Watch for
- Generating slides is desktop and English only for now, there is no free Workspace plan, and no master or brand kit upload is described.
Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint
Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint, with a Copilot license
- A good fit for
- Organizations on Microsoft 365 that want AI inside PowerPoint, Word and Excel and already manage brand and data in Microsoft.
- Strong on
- Works in the file itself, with an Official Brand Kit, the EU Data Boundary, and no training on prompts and responses.
- Watch for
- Needs a paid Copilot license on top of Microsoft 365, names no free plan, and Anthropic-provided models are currently outside the EU Data Boundary.
Pitch
Browser app
- A good fit for
- Teams that want a browser-based presentation editor with EU hosting (Ireland), a Free plan and PowerPoint import.
- Strong on
- Imports .pptx including charts and SmartArt, states hosting on AWS in Ireland, and has a Free plan with 100 AI credits.
- Watch for
- PowerPoint export is a premium feature and drops animations and uploaded videos; fonts may fall back to Calibri.
Presentations.AI
Browser app
- A good fit for
- People who want a branded deck from a prompt, with the brand read from a website, starting on a free plan.
- Strong on
- Brand Sync reads logo, fonts and colors from a URL; the free Starter plan allows up to 20 slides.
- Watch for
- Its pages disagree on PowerPoint export for free users, and Custom Templates are listed only on Gold.
The table
Ten tools on eight criteria
Each cell links to the vendor page behind it. The numbers are sources; the sources section lists them with their date.
- Yes
- Partly
- No
- Not stated
Scroll sideways to see all criteria. The tool names stay in view.
| Tool | Editable PowerPoint export | Import of your own template or master | Own brand | Word and Excel output | Research with sources | Data location and training use | Entry paid plan | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SlaidePublisher of this page | Yes: .pptx with editable text, shapes, tables and speaker notes, ready to finish in PowerPoint. 1 | Yes: open your .pptx (up to 30 MB). Theme fonts, colors and each slide's layout are read, and new slides follow the same design. 1 | Yes: Brand kit with colors, fonts, logo and tone, or read from a website; up to 5 brands. It guides the AI. 1 | Yes: Word for A4 pages and Excel for workbooks, each as its own document. Excel files carry formulas and formatting. 1 | Yes: web research on public pages, with the sources in the assistant panel. 1 | Account data, documents and files are stored in the EU. AI requests go to model providers in the USA. Use for training is excluded by contract. 2 | Plus: €7.99 a month, or €5.99 a month billed yearly, 800 credits a month. Prices are final, no VAT is added. 3 | Yes: one document with its first 3 pages, no card needed; free exports carry a Slaide mark. 3 |
| Beautiful.ai | Partly: Any .pptx can be imported and stays editable; it inherits the theme where possible. 6 | Yes: Fonts, colors and logos are set once; Team and Enterprise add brand governance. 7 | Not stated | Not stated | States that data processed by its AI models is not used to train public LLMs; retained at most 30 days against abuse. The security page names no hosting region. 8 | Pro: $14.50 a month billed yearly. Team: $40 per user a month billed yearly. 9 | No free plan; a 14-day trial needs a credit card. 9 | |
| Canva | Yes: Share, Download, PowerPoint (.pptx). Canva warns that fonts may differ and that animations and embedded videos are not yet supported; a help page lists elements that arrive flattened. 10 | Partly: Imports .pptx (beta, desktop browser, up to 300 slides) as an ordinary Canva design. Charts, SmartArt, 3D objects and WordArt are ignored; fonts are matched approximately. 11 | Yes: Brand Kit for logos, colors and fonts; Business adds brand management tools. 12 | Not stated: Docs and Sheets exist inside Canva; Word or Excel file output is not stated. 12 | Partly: Canva AI web research finds current information; whether sources are shown is not stated. 13 | Pro: €110 a year or €12 a month (German price page). 16 | Yes: a Free plan with a monthly limit on AI uses. 16 | |
| ChatGPT | Not stated | Yes: ChatGPT Work creates and edits .docx and .xlsx files as well. 17 | Yes: Web search with inline citations and a Sources button, on all plans. OpenAI warns that citations can be incomplete or outdated. 21 | Free, Plus and Pro content may improve models unless “Improve the model for everyone” is switched off. Business, Enterprise and Edu are not used for training by default. Europe data residency: new Enterprise and Edu workspaces; for Business, rolling out gradually. Abuse-monitoring logs are stored in the US. 2223 | Go: $8 a month, the cheapest paid plan. Plus: $20 a month. 24 | Yes: a Free plan. 24 | ||
| Claude | Yes: The add-in reads the slide master, layouts, fonts and color scheme of the open deck; Anthropic recommends applying your template first. 25 | Partly: A persistent Instructions field holds brand guidelines in the add-in; no separate brand kit is stated. 25 | ||||||
| Gamma | Yes, on all plans: .pptx with real tables and theme fonts embedded. The slide master exports blank. Free exports carry a badge. 33 | Yes: Themes hold your colors, heading and body fonts and logo. 35 | No Word export on any plan; Excel output is not stated. 33 | Partly: A Research option in the composer pulls web sources first, but only together with Plan; how they show in the finished deck is not stated. The Agent can research the web and cite. 36 | Plus: €8 per seat a month billed yearly, €10 billed monthly. 41 | Yes: 400 credits once, with no monthly refresh. 40 | ||
| Gemini in Google Slides | Partly: Brand style comes from a deck you pick; no separate brand kit is described for Gemini in Slides. 44 | Not stated: Gemini also works in Docs and Sheets; Word or Excel file output is not stated. 45 | Partly: “Use Google Search” in the prompt; a Sources panel lists the Drive files used. 45 | No free Workspace plan; a 14-day trial is offered. 48 | ||||
| Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint | Yes: Native: it works inside .pptx and .ppt files, one file at a time, and can build a deck from a Word file. 49 | Yes: An Official Brand Kit set by the organization and a personal Brand Kit. 51 | Yes: Copilot works inside Word, PowerPoint and Excel. 52 | Partly: Web search sends a query to Bing; the citations Copilot uses to ground a response are stored with it. Whether slides carry source lines is not stated. 52 | EU traffic stays inside the EU Data Boundary, but models provided by Anthropic as a subprocessor are currently excluded from it. Prompts, responses and Graph data are not used to train foundation models. 52 | Not stated: No free plan is named on the license pages; Copilot is sold as an add-on to eligible Microsoft 365 plans or with Microsoft 365 E7. 54 | ||
| Pitch | Partly: Imports .pptx (slides, text, simple shapes, tables, notes, charts, SmartArt) and creates a matching slide style. Header and footer, custom fonts, transitions and animations are not imported; custom fonts can be uploaded. 56 | Partly: A slide style plus uploaded custom fonts; a brand kit is not stated on the vendor pages. 56 | Not stated | Not stated | States that Pitch is hosted on AWS in Ireland (eu-west-1). Whether content is used to train AI is not stated on that page. 57 | Plus: €10 a month billed yearly, for one member. 58 | Yes: €0, with 100 AI credits that do not renew. 58 | |
| Presentations.AI | Not stated: Word-to-PowerPoint and PDF-to-PowerPoint are inputs; Word or Excel output is not stated. 59 | Not stated | Pro: $20 a month billed yearly ($240 a year). No monthly price is shown. 60 | Yes: Starter, $0, 100 credits, up to 20 slides. 60 |
Prices are shown in the currency and tax basis of each vendor's page and are not converted. The entry plan may not include every feature in the other columns.
Test it with your own file
The table shows what each tool says it can do. Open your own .pptx on the Free plan and judge the result in PowerPoint.
Sources
Sources and dates
Numbers in the table point here. Each source shows its date. Slaide's own facts come from its help center, security page and pricing page, as of October 2026.
Slaide
- 1Help centerhelp.slaide.de · As of 21 October 2026
- 2Security and privacyslaide.de · As of 21 October 2026
- 3Pricingslaide.de · As of 21 October 2026
Beautiful.ai
- 4Help: exporting slidessupport.beautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 5Blog: exporting to PowerPointbeautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 6Help: importing PowerPointsupport.beautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 7Help: brand kitssupport.beautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 8Security pagebeautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 9Pricingbeautiful.ai · As of 21 October 2026
Canva
- 10Help: download file typescanva.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 11Help: PowerPoint importcanva.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 12Help: Brand Kitcanva.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 13Help: Magic presentationscanva.com · As of 22 October 2026
- 14Help: data residencycanva.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 15Trust Center: privacycanva.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 16Pricing (Germany)canva.com · As of 21 October 2026
ChatGPT
- 17Help: documents and presentations in ChatGPT Workhelp.openai.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 18Guide: generating slide deckslearn.chatgpt.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 19Help: ChatGPT for PowerPointhelp.openai.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 20Help: slides in ChatGPThelp.openai.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 21Help: ChatGPT searchhelp.openai.com · As of 22 October 2026
- 22Help: how your data is usedhelp.openai.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 23Help: data residencyhelp.openai.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 24Pricinglearn.chatgpt.com · As of 21 October 2026
Claude
- 25Docs: Claude for PowerPointclaude.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 26Help: creating and editing filessupport.claude.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 27Help: web searchsupport.claude.com · As of 22 October 2026
- 28Help: Researchsupport.claude.com · As of 22 October 2026
- 29Privacy: model improvement settingprivacy.claude.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 30Anthropic: consumer terms updateanthropic.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 31Regional complianceclaude.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 32Pricingclaude.com · As of 21 October 2026
Gamma
- 33Help: exportinghelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 34Help: importinghelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 35Help: themes, colors and fontshelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 36Help: creating a presentationhelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 37Help: AI training on your contenthelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 38Help: Business optionshelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 39Subprocessorsgamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 40Help: creditshelp.gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
- 41Pricing (Germany)gamma.app · As of 21 October 2026
Gemini in Google Slides
- 42Help: downloading and converting filessupport.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 43Help: Google Slides on Android, export formatssupport.google.com · As of 22 October 2026
- 44Blog: on-brand presentations with Geminiworkspace.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 45Help: creating slides with Geminisupport.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 46Privacy hub: generative AI in Workspaceknowledge.workspace.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 47Admin help: data regionsknowledge.workspace.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 48Workspace pricingworkspace.google.com · As of 21 October 2026
Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint
- 49Support: Copilot in PowerPoint FAQsupport.microsoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 50Support: keeping a presentation on brandsupport.microsoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 51Support: brand kits in Microsoft 365 Copilotsupport.microsoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 52Learn: privacy in Microsoft 365 Copilotlearn.microsoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 53Copilot for business, pricingmicrosoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 54Learn: Copilot license optionslearn.microsoft.com · As of 21 October 2026
Pitch
- 55Help: exporting to PowerPointhelp.pitch.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 56Help: importing a presentationhelp.pitch.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 57GDPR pagepitch.com · As of 21 October 2026
- 58Pricingpitch.com · As of 21 October 2026
Presentations.AI
- 59FAQpresentations.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 60Pricingpresentations.ai · As of 21 October 2026
- 61Data processing agreementpresentations.ai · As of 21 October 2026
Method
How we compare
The rules are short, so you can hold us to them.
The same eight questions for every tool.
They are the points that decide whether an AI-made deck is usable at work: an editable file, your own template and brand, Word and Excel, sources, data and cost.
Vendor pages only.
Facts come from public vendor pages as of October 2026. We did not test output quality, which depends on your brief.
A link on every cell, a date on every source.
The numbers in a cell link to the page behind it, and the sources list gives its date. Prices and plan features change often, so the date tells you how old a statement is.
“Not stated” means the pages say nothing.
If a vendor's pages do not say, the cell says so. We do not fill gaps with guesses, and “not stated” is not “no”.
Conflicts stay visible.
Where a vendor's own pages disagree, for example a pricing table against a help article, the cell shows both and links both.
Entry paid plan means the cheapest paid plan.
It is the cheapest paid plan we found that includes the tool's AI features, in the vendor's currency and tax basis. Where a vendor sells only business plans, the cell shows the price per user. That plan may not include every feature in the other columns, so check it before you buy.
No scores, no stars, no ranking.
Slaide comes first because it publishes the page; the other tools follow alphabetically. The order is not a ranking.
A conflict of interest, stated.
Slaide publishes this page and is one of the tools. Its cells come from its own help center under the same rules.
Found an error or an outdated statement? Tell us and we correct it. How corrections and conflicts of interest are handled is set out in the editorial policy. Editorial policy
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I choose an AI presentation tool for work?
Start from the file you have to deliver. If the result must live in your own PowerPoint master, Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint and the Claude add-in work inside the open deck. If a draft built in the browser that you finish in PowerPoint is enough, Slaide, Gamma, Canva, Beautiful.ai and ChatGPT export .pptx, and Pitch does so as a premium feature. Then compare the data, price and free plan rows, and test your own file on a free plan or trial before you commit.
Which AI presentation tool can use my company's PowerPoint template?
Several read part of it. Claude's add-in reads the slide master, layouts, fonts and colors of the open deck, and Copilot uses a Brand Kit with sample slides and falls back to the slide master. Slaide, Gamma, Canva, Beautiful.ai and Pitch import a .pptx as a theme or design rather than as a live master; the template row shows what each keeps.
Which tools also make Word and Excel files?
ChatGPT Work creates and edits .docx and .xlsx files, Claude creates .docx, .xlsx and PDF files, and Slaide builds Word files for A4 pages and Excel files for workbooks. Microsoft Copilot works inside Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Gamma has no Word export, and Canva, Gemini in Slides, Beautiful.ai, Pitch and Presentations.AI do not state Word or Excel output on the pages we read.
Which tools have a free plan?
Slaide, ChatGPT, Claude, Canva, Gamma, Pitch and Presentations.AI have a free plan. Slaide's Free plan covers one document with its first 3 pages, Gamma starts with 400 credits once, Pitch gives 100 AI credits that do not renew, and Presentations.AI's Starter plan allows up to 20 slides. Beautiful.ai and Google Workspace offer a trial instead, and Microsoft names no free plan for Copilot in PowerPoint. Claude's PowerPoint add-in needs Pro or higher.
Where is my data stored, and is it used for training?
That differs by tool and often by plan, so read the data row for the tool and plan you would use. Slaide stores account data in the EU, sends AI requests to model providers in the USA and excludes use for training by contract. Canva and Gamma state US storage by default, Gamma's individual plans are opted in to AI training with an opt-out, and Pitch states hosting on AWS in Ireland. Each cell links the vendor page it comes from.
Is this comparison neutral, and how current is it?
Not entirely: Slaide publishes this page and is one of the tools. To keep it fair, every cell comes from the vendor's own pages with a link, every source shows its date (21 and 22 October 2026), and “not stated” marks gaps. Prices and plans change often, so open the linked page before you decide. If a cell is wrong or outdated, tell us and we correct it.
Try it with your own brief and your own template
Describe a presentation, attach your .pptx and see how the result holds up in PowerPoint. The Free plan builds the first 3 pages of one document.
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