By task AI tools for making presentations
An AI slide maker takes your outline and builds the deck: layout, headings and text on each slide. Gamma gives a new free account 400 AI credits, and those credits don't refill, so plan the deck before you spend them. The planning itself is free in any chat assistant.
- Gamma free credits
- 400 at signup
- Refill on Free
- None
- Cost to start
- Free
Plan first, for free
The slow part of a presentation is deciding what to say. Do that in a chat assistant, where it costs nothing:
- Tell it the audience and the goal. "Ten-minute talk to my team about switching payroll providers. I want them to agree to a trial."
- Ask for an outline, one line per slide.
- Cut it down. Ask which three slides could go.
- Ask for speaker notes once the outline is right.
Then build the deck
Paste the finished outline into a slide maker. Gamma builds the slides from it and lets you edit them afterward.
Gamma runs on credits. From its help center:
| Free | Paid plans | |
|---|---|---|
| Credits | 400 at signup | Refill monthly (Plus example: 1,500) |
| Refresh | No | Yes, on your billing date |
| Rollover | Up to double the plan size | |
| Earn more | 200 per referral, 2,000 max held |
Checked Nov 11, 2026. The help article doesn't list plan prices.
Because free credits don't come back, arriving with a finished outline matters. You spend credits on building, not on changing your mind.
Which to pick
- One deck for one event: plan it in a chat assistant, then build it with Gamma's free credits.
- Decks every week: a paid slide maker plan, since those credits refill.
- You only need the words: stay in the chat assistant. Ask for slide titles, bullet points and notes, and paste them into the slide software you already have.
Ask the chat assistant for one sentence per slide that says what the audience should remember. If you can't write that sentence, the slide isn't ready.
Check the facts on every slide
AI tools write confident text, and some of it will be wrong. Before you present, check every number, name and date against your own source. This matters more on slides than anywhere else, because you'll be saying it out loud in front of people.
Frequently asked questions
Can AI make a slide deck for free?
You can make a first deck for free. Gamma's help center says new Free users get 400 AI credits at signup. They don't refresh, though you can earn 200 more per referral.
Can a chat assistant make slides?
A chat assistant can write the outline, the slide text and speaker notes on a free plan. Claude's pricing page also lists file creation and Slides on its Free plan.
What happens when my Gamma credits run out?
Gamma's help center says free credits don't refresh. You earn more through referrals, up to 2,000 held at once, or move to a paid plan, where credits refill each month.
How do we know this?
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