If you came here expecting a three-way comparison: Tome is gone. It shut down in April 2025 and sunset its existing decks with it, so if you had presentations living there, you've already had to move. This is Gamma versus Beautiful.ai now.
The two aren't really the same product. Gamma treats a "presentation" as a fluid, web-native document — you generate content fast and it can just as easily become a scrolling page or a simple website as a slide deck. Beautiful.ai is stricter: real slides, with automated layout rules that keep everything on-brand and formatted consistently whether you fuss over it or not.
| Free tier | Paid | |
|---|---|---|
| Gamma | 400 one-time AI credits (~10 decks) | ~$10/mo |
| Beautiful.ai | 14-day trial, no permanent free plan | Pro ~$12/mo · Team ~$40/user/mo |
Gamma's free tier is the more generous of the two by a wide margin — 400 credits is enough to actually evaluate it on real work, roughly ten full generations, and it doesn't expire on a timer. Beautiful.ai gives you two weeks and then it's a paid decision, full stop, with the Team tier at $40/user climbing fast for anything more than a couple of people.
Pick Gamma if you want to get from "here's my rough content" to "here's a shareable thing" quickly, and you don't mind that the output looks more like a polished web page than a corporate slide deck. Pick Beautiful.ai if brand consistency across a team's decks is the actual problem you're solving — its layout rules are the product, and they're genuinely good at stopping people from making ugly slides. For a solo user doing occasional decks, Gamma's free tier probably covers you without a subscription at all.