Best AI Presentation Maker: Compare 9 Tools

This is a transparent lookup and rule-based recommender, not an opinion poll or an affiliate chart. Each of the 9tools is stored as a typed record — whether it has a free tier and that tier's main limit, whether the free tier stamps a watermark, the cheapest paid starting price in USD, use-case tags, and boolean flags for PPTX export, PDF export, brand kit and Google Slides support. Every figure is cited inline to the vendor's own pricing page and was verified on July 9, 2026.

When you set the filters, the recommender runs deterministic steps in order:

1. Budget gate.“Free only” keeps tools with a genuine free tier; “Under $15/mo” keeps tools whose cheapest paid plan is $15 or less (inclusive — a plan at exactly $15still passes); “Any” keeps everything.
2. Capability requirements. Each toggle you switch on — export PPTX, export PDF, brand kit, Google Slides — must be a real capability of the tool, or it is dropped.
3. Watermark rule.“No watermark” only bites on the “Free only” band, where the tool must have a free tier that exports without a badge. On a paid band every plan is already watermark-free, so the toggle does not narrow the list there.
4. Fit score. Survivors are ranked by a feature-counting score:useCase×2 + freeTier + pptx + (free & no-watermark, free band only)where a tool tagged with your chosen use case adds 2 (doubled to 4). Ties break by the cheaper starting price, then alphabetically — a total order, so identical filters always return the same picks. A second, independent scoring pass re-derives the same ranking as a built-in cross-check.

The full table below always shows every tool regardless of your filters, greying out the ones that don't match, so the page stays crawlable and you can see what you excluded. Prices are in US dollars because every vendor bills in USD; from a Sri Lankan card add a foreign-transaction fee and use the currency converter for the day's rate. Want to skip the comparison and just make a deck? Try the free induwara.lk AI presentation maker.

• Gamma — free credits, Plus / Pro pricing, PPTX & PDF export
• Canva — free plan, Canva Pro, Magic Design, brand kit
• Beautiful.ai — trial, Pro / Team pricing, smart templates
• Tome — current product focus and plans
• Plus AI — Google Slides & PowerPoint add-in, plans
• SlidesAI — Google Slides add-on, free credit limits
• Decktopus — free tier limits, Pro / Business pricing
• Presentations.AI — free tier, Pro pricing, export
• Pitch — free workspace, Pro pricing, collaboration

Prices and capability flags were last verified against the official pages on July 9, 2026. Vendors change these plans frequently — if you spot a figure that has moved, email me and I'll update it. This page compares third-party products and does not generate slides itself; for that, use our AI presentation maker.