# Speaker Deck review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Host and share presentations online with embeds Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Speaker Deck is a site for publishing slide decks, sharing them by link and embedding them in web pages. Free accounts can upload to a daily and lifetime limit, while Pro adds private links, password protection and unbranded embeds. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Speaker Deck, LLC (since 2012) - **Website:** https://speakerdeck.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to build slides, as it is not an editor. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Speaker Deck has a free plan, and paid plans start at $8 per month, billed monthly ($80 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Public sharing, standard embeds and 150MB uploads, limited to 10 per day and 100 lifetime. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Public sharing, standard embeds, 150MB uploads, 10 a day and 100 over the account's life. | | Pro | $8 per month, billed monthly ($80 billed yearly) | Unlimited uploads up to 250MB, private links, passwords, unbranded embeds and scheduled publishing. | Read from https://speakerdeck.com/pro on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Speaker Deck before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 17% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The Pro page shows $80 a year against $8 a month, advertised as a 17% saving. Source: https://speakerdeck.com/pro - **Student pricing for Pro** (Education): Eligible students can pay $4 a month or $40 a year after applying; approval is required. Source: https://speakerdeck.com/student-pricing ## Key features - **Public hosting and embeds:** Upload a deck and share it by URL or embed it with the standard Speaker Deck player. - **Private links and passwords:** Pro accounts can keep decks private behind an unlisted URL or a password. - **Unbranded embeds:** Pro removes Speaker Deck branding from the embedded player. - **Scheduled publishing and notes:** Pro can schedule when a deck goes live and attach slide notes. - **Student pricing:** Eligible students can apply for Pro at a reduced rate. ## Good for - Conference speakers publishing talks to a wide audience - Developers and designers embedding decks in blogs - Students sharing coursework with a reduced-price Pro plan ## Worth knowing - It hosts finished decks; it is not an editor for building slides. - Free accounts are limited to 10 uploads a day and 100 in total. - Private URLs and password protection require the Pro plan. - Uploads are limited to 150MB on Free and 250MB on Pro. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Speaker Deck hosts finished slide decks for sharing and embedding, free with 10 uploads a day and 100 in total, or Pro at $8 a month. It is not an editor, and private links and passwords need Pro. - **Value for money: B.** Pro is $8 a month or $80 a year, which is $6.67 a month, inside the cheaper quarter of $7.95 for presentation tools. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free gives public sharing, standard embeds and 150 MB uploads, with caps of 10 a day and 100 in total that most people will not reach. - **Features: C.** It hosts, shares and embeds decks but does not build them. It does that fully, which is a smaller job than the category. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. You upload a PDF and share the link. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps or integrations list. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Speaker Deck's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Speaker Deck's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 65 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 75 of 89) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 18 of the 63 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 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.** Nothing Speaker Deck does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 65 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade. It costs $96 a year. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Storing and serving files for other people. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Presentations, File sharing ## Alternatives - [SlideShare](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slideshare): Site for browsing and uploading shared presentations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/slideshare-vs-speaker-deck) - [Slides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slides): Browser-based presentation editor with HTML, CSS and code support. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/slides-vs-speaker-deck) - [Canva](https://toolgpa.com/tools/canva): Template-based design platform for slides, graphics and video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/canva-vs-speaker-deck) - [Google Slides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-slides): Browser-based presentation builder, free with a Google Account. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-slides-vs-speaker-deck) - [Pitch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pitch): Collaborative presentation workspace with tracked share links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pitch-vs-speaker-deck) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://speakerdeck.com/pro - https://speakerdeck.com/student-pricing - https://speakerdeck.com/about - https://speakerdeck.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/speaker-deck Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).