# Alai review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI presentation maker that builds on-brand decks from a prompt Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Alai is a browser-based AI presentation maker. A prompt, or an imported PDF or link, becomes a slide deck, and the vendor also positions it for social posts and infographics. Pricing runs on monthly AI credits plus a cap on how many AI slides one prompt can create, and decks export to PDF or PowerPoint. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Alai - **Website:** https://getalai.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want no watermark: that starts at $20 a month, billed monthly. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Alai has a free plan, and paid plans start at $20 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Unlimited presentations with a one-time grant of AI credits, up to 10 AI slides per prompt, watermarks stay on. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Unlimited presentations, one-time AI credits with no renewal, up to 10 AI slides per prompt, watermark stays, PDF and PPT export. | | Plus | $20 per month, billed monthly | Monthly AI credits, up to 20 AI slides per prompt, no watermark, priority access to new elements and themes. | | Pro | $30 per month, billed monthly | A larger monthly credit allowance, up to 50 AI slides per prompt, no watermark and priority support from the founders. | | Ultra | $80 per month, billed monthly | 5,000 AI credits a month, up to 50 AI slides per prompt, no watermark and direct feature requests to the founders. | Read from https://getalai.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Alai before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page description says annual billing saves 20%; the plan cards displayed only monthly prices when read. Source: https://getalai.com/pricing ## Key features - **Prompt to deck:** Describe a presentation and Alai generates the slides. The slide cap per prompt is 10 on Free, 20 on Plus and 50 on Pro and Ultra. - **Credit-based AI usage:** AI actions draw on credits. The Free plan gets a one-time grant that does not renew, and paid plans renew their credits every month. - **PDF and PPT export:** Every plan can export presentations as PDF or PowerPoint files, according to the pricing page. - **Import and prettify:** The site links tools that turn a PDF or a link into a PowerPoint deck and that restyle an existing deck. - **Done-for-you decks:** The pricing page offers custom-built decks from the team, starting at $1500, and an Enterprise contact route. ## Good for - Founders drafting a first pitch deck quickly - Occasional presenters who can work within monthly credits - Teams that prefer to start from a prompt over a blank slide ## Worth knowing - The Free plan keeps a watermark and its AI credits are a one-time grant that does not renew. - Paid plans are metered in monthly AI credits, and the slide count per prompt is capped at 20 or 50. - The pricing page does not describe team or workspace plans on the tiers; Enterprise is by contact. - Custom decks built by the Alai team are a separate service starting at $1500. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Alai turns a prompt into a deck and exports PDF and PPT. The free plan keeps a watermark and its AI credits are a one-time grant. The first paid plan is $20 a month billed monthly, which is the top of what this category charges, and slides per prompt stop at 20 or 50. - **Value for money: D.** Plus is $20 a month billed monthly, which is where the dearest tenth of presentation tools starts, and the category's middle is $10. Annual billing takes 20% off. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free plan has unlimited presentations but a one-time grant of credits, 10 AI slides a prompt, and the watermark stays. It is enough to try, not to live on. - **Features: C.** Prompt to deck, import and prettify, PDF and PPT export. It meters AI by credits, and the pages say nothing about team plans below Enterprise. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is a web app where you write prompts, spend credits and edit the result. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations listed. Export is by file. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Alai's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Alai's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 6 of the 51 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 8 of 51) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 33 of the 37 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 27 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/presentations ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Alai you could make: templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 41 of the 51 other presentation tools grade higher. It costs $240 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Presentations, AI features, Templates ## Alternatives - [Gamma](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gamma): AI generator for presentations, documents and websites. 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