Gamma overview: products, pricing, and alternatives

Gamma is an AI productivity company that builds presentations, documents, and websites with AI. Gamma Tech, Inc., a San Francisco startup valued at $2.1B after an a16z-led Series B in November 2025, makes it for consultants, marketers, sales teams, and educators.

Gamma at a glance

What is Gamma?

Gamma tackles the slow first draft of visual content. Its flagship product produces a designed presentation quickly, and the same tool extends to documents, websites, social media visuals, and graphics through Gamma Imagine. Grant Lee, Jon Noronha, and James Fox started the company in late 2020, and TechCrunch dates the first product launch to 2022.

Gamma products

• Presentations: the flagship product, for building slide decks.
• Documents: AI-generated documents.
• Websites: published sites, with 10 custom domains on Pro and 100 on Business and Ultra.
• Social Media: social visuals.
• Graphics and Gamma Imagine: image and graphics creation.
• Gamma Agent: rebuilt in Gamma 5 to discuss the idea with you before designing.
• API: keys require Pro or higher.
• Connectors: Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, Notion, and more. The Claude and ChatGPT connectors work on all plans.
• Mobile apps: iOS and Android.

Gamma pricing

Gamma starts at $9 per seat a month on the Plus plan, billed annually, with a free plan below it. Since October 2025, Gamma charges a subscription plus credits, spent per slide and per image. The Free plan gives 400 credits at signup that never refresh. Plus includes 1,000 monthly credits, Pro 4,000, and Ultra 20,000. Extra credits cost $6 per 1,500. Verify current prices at gamma.app/pricing.

Data, privacy, and safety

Yes, Gamma trains on content from Free, Plus, Pro, and Ultra accounts by default, with an opt-out, while Business and Enterprise are locked off.

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001: Not publicly specified; DPA covering GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA.

No confirmed breach was found. A 2025 phishing campaign abused Gamma-hosted pages, which was third-party abuse. The DPA forbids submitting health records (HIPAA data), government ID numbers, payment card data, or data from children under 13.

Who’s behind Gamma and how stable it is

Gamma Tech, Inc. is well funded and shipping actively, most recently Gamma 5 on October 6, 2026. Grant Lee is CEO, and the company is independent and VC-backed, with about $87–90M raised. The company claims $100M+ in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and profitability since 2023, though its careers page footer reads © 2025. It lists about 23 open roles, mostly engineering, and acquired Lica on August 25, 2026. No shutdown signals were found.

Gamma strengths and limitations

Strengths

• Gamma 5 adds a freeform canvas and wider visual styles, answering the “decks all look the same” complaint.
• Claude and ChatGPT connectors work on every plan, including Free.
• Imports PPTX and PDF and exports both, with Gamma 5 claiming better import fidelity.
• Business and Enterprise plans lock training off, and Business lists SOC 2 documentation upon request.
• Trustpilot reviewers praise the fast first draft and polished design.

Limitations

• Trustpilot shows 1.6/5 from 125 reviews, citing slow support and refund windows as short as 3 days.
• Health-data teams cannot use it: the DPA forbids HIPAA data.
• No VPAT or formal screen-reader audit exists, a gap for institutions with accessibility requirements.
• Buyers wanting flat pricing may prefer Beautiful.ai, which advertises unlimited AI on paid plans.
• Website reviewers report no outside email-signup form embeds and no cookie banner.

Gamma alternatives

Canva, Beautiful.ai, and Pitch are Gamma’s closest alternatives. Gamma has metered AI through credits since October 2025, while Beautiful.ai’s pricing page still advertises unlimited AI content generation on paid plans.