The verdict
If your team already builds decks in PowerPoint or Google Slides and has a template and a brand it likes, pick Plus AI. You get quicker first drafts without changing how decks are stored or sent.
If you want a tool that enforces layout and brand so decks stay tidy whoever builds them, pick Beautiful.ai, and accept a new editor.
Neither has a free plan, so test both with a real deck on the trial. With Plus AI, watch how many credits a typical deck uses, and check how your own template behaves. With Beautiful.ai, check what breaks when you import old decks.
Side by side
| 7 points compared | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $14.50/mo | $10/mo |
| Free plan | No | No |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| AI diagram generation | Yes | Yes |
| Brand kit | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes | Yes |
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Plans and pricing
Beautiful.ai
- Pro$174/yr
- Team$50/mo/seat
Plus AI
- Basic$15/mo/seat
- Pro$25/mo/seat
- Team$40/mo/seat
- Max$240/mo/seat
Who each is for
Choose Beautiful.ai if…
Pick Beautiful.ai if founders, agencies or sales teams build many similar decks without a designer and want the layout handled for them. Brand settings are shared across the team, chart slides link to live data and viewer analytics show who read what.
It exports to PDF and PowerPoint, and has a documented API for creating decks from a prompt or a template.
The price of that tidiness is less control over where things sit, and your team has to learn another editor. Decide who owns the theme and the template library, so decks stay consistent after the first month.
Choose Plus AI if…
Pick Plus AI if you are a consultant, or a sales or marketing team, that already works in PowerPoint or Google Slides and wants faster first drafts from a prompt or a document. Most decks begin as someone else's text, so starting from a PDF or Word file is the right idea.
Decks stay normal slide files. Team plans bring custom templates, your logo, fonts and colours. It also has an API and an MCP server, so other tools can call it.
Plans run on a pool of credits, and custom templates need the Team plan or above. Output quality follows your template, so test with your real one.
Other options worth a look
Generates branded designs and presentations from text prompts using AI and a large template library.
Microsoft's presentation software for sales decks, pitches and reports, free on the web and in Microsoft 365.