Gamma has six plans ranging from free to $100 per month. The free tier gives you 400 AI credits at signup — enough for roughly 8 to 10 presentations — but those credits do not refresh. Once they are gone, you are either upgrading or you stop generating.
For most individual users, Plus at $8 per month (billed annually) is the right starting point. It removes Gamma's branding from exports, bumps your credit allocation to 1,000 per month that do refresh, and costs less than most comparable creative subscriptions. Pro at $15 per month is worth it only if you need per-viewer analytics, premium AI image models, or more than 20 presentations per month. Everything above Pro is for agencies and teams.
All Gamma plans at a glance
Gamma runs six pricing tiers: Free, Plus, Pro, Ultra, Team, and Business. The meaningful structural split is between individual plans and team plans. Individual plans give each account its own credit pool. Team plans share a single credit pool across all seats — a two-seat Team plan gives both users combined access to one monthly allocation, not separate ones.
Annual billing cuts the monthly rate by about 20% on Plus, Pro, and Team tiers. Ultra is $100 per month with no annual option. Prices are in USD; international users see local currency equivalents at checkout on gamma.app.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | AI credits | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 400 (one-time, never refresh) | Testing the tool or very light use |
| Plus | $10/mo | $8/mo | 1,000/mo | Individuals and freelancers in regular use |
| Pro | $20/mo | $15/mo | 4,000/mo | Freelancers needing analytics or premium images |
| Ultra | $100/mo | No annual option | ~20,000/mo | Agencies doing daily high-volume production |
| Team | $20/seat | — | Shared pool (min 2 seats) | Small teams sharing brand kits |
| Business | $40/seat | — | Shared pool (min 10 seats) | Enterprise with SSO requirements |
How Gamma's credit system works
Credits are the in-app unit Gamma uses for anything AI generates or modifies. Understanding how they are consumed matters more than comparing plan names, because credit cost per task is where most users miscalculate which tier they actually need.
A standard 10-slide presentation built from a text prompt costs 40 to 50 credits. That means a Plus subscriber with 1,000 monthly credits can build roughly 20 full presentations per month before hitting their limit — or significantly fewer if they include AI-generated images.
Images are where credit costs escalate quickly. A basic AI-generated image in a slide costs 2 to 5 credits. A standard-quality image runs 10 to 20 credits. A premium image — available on Pro and above — costs 20 to 40 credits per image. One presentation with five standard-quality AI images can burn 100 to 150 credits total, not 50. A deck with premium images on a Plus plan will exhaust monthly credits in fewer than 10 presentations.
Editing existing slides with AI costs 5 to 10 credits per refinement. If you generate a presentation and then iterate — rewriting a section, changing a layout, swapping an image — those changes add up independently of the initial generation cost.
**Credit rollover:** Unused credits on paid plans carry into the next billing cycle, but only up to twice your monthly allocation. A Plus user with 1,000 monthly credits can accumulate a maximum of 2,000 stored credits. If you save 1,500 credits in June, they carry into July without penalty. If you accumulate 2,500, you lose 500 at the billing cycle — they do not roll over indefinitely.
**Free plan credits never refresh.** The 400 credits at signup are a lifetime allocation. Once spent, AI generation stops until you subscribe. This is the most common source of confusion among new users who assume the credits refill monthly.
**Credit add-ons** are available at $6 per 1,500 additional credits. The math is unfavorable compared to upgrading. At $6 per 1,500 credits, you pay $4 per 1,000. Pro's 4,000 monthly credits at $15 per month annual works out to $3.75 per 1,000. If you are regularly buying add-ons on Plus, the combined cost will often exceed the price difference to Pro.
The free plan: how long it actually lasts
Gamma's free plan is a genuine trial. Whether it works as an ongoing tool depends entirely on how often you create presentations.
400 credits covers roughly 8 to 10 standard presentations generated from a prompt, with no AI images included. Add standard-quality AI images and that drops to 6 to 8 presentations total. Most active users exhaust their free allocation within two to three weeks of signing up. Users who create one or two decks per month may stretch the free credits across a quarter or longer.
Beyond credits, the free plan carries meaningful restrictions. Every presentation and export you share includes a "Made with Gamma" footer. There is no brand kit — every deck starts from scratch on colors and typography. Analytics are unavailable, so you have no visibility into whether someone opened your shared link. Custom fonts, password-protected links, and custom domains require Plus or higher.
For students working on class projects, internal team mockups, or exploratory presentations that will not be shared externally, those limitations often do not matter. For anything sent to a client, investor, or prospective customer, the branding limitation and the absence of analytics make the free plan a starting point, not a working tier.
The free plan is also worth noting for its PowerPoint export behavior: certain Gamma card-based layouts convert imperfectly to 16:9 slide format. If your final deliverable needs to be a clean PowerPoint file, test the export format on a free-tier deck before committing to a paid plan.
The free plan is the right choice if you want to evaluate whether Gamma fits your workflow before paying. Four hundred credits is enough to build three or four real presentations, judge the design output quality, and decide whether the format matches how you think about slides.
Plus vs Pro: how to decide
Plus at $8 per month (annual billing) is the right default for most individual users. It solves the two reasons the free plan fails for professional use: it removes Gamma's branding from every export, and it gives you 1,000 credits per month that renew. At $8 per month, it is cheaper than Canva Pro at $13 per month and provides more monthly AI generation than most comparable tools at that price.
A Plus subscriber making one or two presentations per week on standard text-heavy slides will rarely exhaust 1,000 monthly credits. The plan also includes a basic brand kit, letting you set company colors and upload a logo for consistent application across all decks. For a freelancer or a small business owner producing regular client presentations, Plus is usually the right tier.
Pro at $15 per month (annual billing) adds five things that matter for higher-usage or client-facing work:
**Credits: 4,000 per month (4× Plus).** If you are producing multiple decks per week with AI images, or building presentations with five or more images each, Plus's 1,000 credits will run short by the second or third week of the month. At 100 to 150 credits per image-heavy presentation, you hit Plus's ceiling at 7 to 10 decks per month. Pro's 4,000 credits handles 25 to 40 similar presentations.
**Premium AI image models.** The visual difference between standard and premium model output is noticeable on slides where image quality shapes the overall impression. For investor decks, sales materials, or content where design quality affects trust, premium images produce sharper and more realistic results that look less like stock photo placeholders.
**Per-viewer analytics.** Pro shows exactly who opened a shared presentation, how long they spent on each slide, and where they dropped off. For sales teams tracking whether a proposal was actually read before a follow-up call, this is the most useful feature in the tier difference. For internal documents and team presentations, it is irrelevant.
**Custom fonts and password protection.** If your organization uses specific brand typography, Pro is where custom font uploads become available. Password-protected sharing links for confidential content also require Pro.
**API access.** Relevant only if you are building Gamma generation into a product, automation, or custom workflow. Most individual users will never use this.
The decision is straightforward: if you need per-viewer analytics, upgrade to Pro. If you consistently exceed 1,000 credits per month, upgrade to Pro. If neither applies and your main goal is professional exports without the Gamma footer, Plus is sufficient. For context on how Gamma compares to alternatives, the best AI presentation tools roundup covers the full field.
Ultra, Team, and Business plans
Ultra at $100 per month includes approximately 20,000 credits — five times Pro's allocation — plus access to Gamma's most advanced AI image and video generation models. There is no annual billing option; $100 per month is the only price regardless of commitment length, which means $1,200 per year without a discount.
Ultra makes financial sense for agencies or production teams generating presentations daily at high volume. A team producing 10 or more client-ready decks per week, each with substantial AI imagery, will exhaust Pro's 4,000 credits quickly. For an individual paying $100 per month for a presentation tool, the credit volume is hard to justify unless Gamma is the backbone of a client delivery workflow.
The Team plan at $20 per seat per month requires a minimum of two seats, putting the floor at $40 per month. Credits on the Team plan are shared across all seats, not allocated per user. A two-seat Team plan does not give each member their own monthly credit pool — both users draw from one combined allocation. The plan adds shared brand kits so all team members automatically apply the same colors, logos, and fonts; collaborative real-time editing; team-level output analytics; and admin controls for access management.
One comparison worth making before buying Team: two separate Pro subscriptions at $15 per month each totals $30 per month, gives each user an independent 4,000-credit allocation, and costs less than the two-seat Team minimum of $40 per month. Team only becomes more economical than dual Pro subscriptions at four or more seats, where the per-seat cost drops and the shared brand kit delivers actual value.
Business at $40 per seat per month requires a minimum of 10 seats, making the entry cost $400 per month. It adds SSO, enterprise-grade security controls, SOC 2 compliance documentation, and dedicated support. The 10-seat minimum is firm — it is not available to a team of four or five that wants priority support or SSO. If you are a small team looking for enterprise features at fewer than 10 seats, Gamma does not currently offer that configuration.
When not to pay for Gamma
Most pricing breakdowns stop before this part. Here is when the cost does not justify the upgrade.
**You make fewer than 10 presentations per year.** At that pace, your 400 free credits will stretch across most of the year — possibly longer if your decks are text-heavy. The math on $8 per month ($96 per year) does not hold when you generate one presentation every six weeks.
**Your presentations are primarily data tables and charts.** Gamma handles text-first, narrative-driven slides well. Complex data visualization — dynamic charts pulled from spreadsheets, conditional formatting, pivot tables — does not import cleanly from Excel or Google Sheets. If your decks are mostly numbers, Google Slides integrates with that workflow at no cost. Pro at $15 per month does not fix that structural limitation.
**You need narrated video walkthroughs.** Gamma does not support native voiceover recording or in-app audio narration. For sales decks that need a recorded walkthrough, Descript handles narrated presentation video directly. If your presentation workflow depends on audio narration, adding a Gamma subscription does not close that gap.
**You are buying Team for two people.** If your team has two users, run the math first. Two separate Pro subscriptions at $15 per month each totals $30 per month — less than the two-seat Team minimum of $40 per month — and each user gets an independent 4,000-credit allocation instead of sharing one pool. Team makes more sense starting at four seats.
The right time to move from free to Plus is when you have exhausted your free credits and plan to use Gamma regularly, or when you need to share presentations with clients without the Gamma footer. Both of those are clear triggers. Anything short of that, the free plan is sufficient.
Which Gamma plan to choose
For individual users, the choice is almost always between Plus and Pro. Plus at $8 per month (annual) covers the basics — clean exports, 1,000 refreshing monthly credits, and a basic brand kit. Pro at $15 per month is worth it when you need per-viewer analytics, premium AI image quality, or more than 20 presentations per month.
For teams, the Team plan only beats dual Pro subscriptions in cost and credit volume at four or more seats. Below that threshold, separate Pro accounts give more credits per dollar and keep allocations independent.
The free plan covers evaluation and light use. It is not a long-term working tier for anyone producing presentations professionally. Four hundred one-time credits is enough to decide whether Gamma fits your workflow — not enough to run on indefinitely.
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July 13, 2026