TL;DR Gamma ($12/mo monthly, about $9/mo annual) is the better AI-first presentation maker: it drafts a whole deck from a topic in under a minute and its free tier is real, if only 400 one-time credits. Beautiful.ai ($14.50/mo annual, $45 month-to-month) is the better design engine: Smart Slides reflow automatically so a team deck never looks broken — but there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Pick Gamma when you want the AI to write and design; pick Beautiful.ai when you have ...