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Alai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI presentation maker (YC-backed) that generates on-brand slides, social posts and infographics from your content.
225K visits/mo25K saves
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Recraft
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI image and vector generation platform for designers and teams needing art-directed illustrations, photorealistic images, and an API.
1.7M visits/mo9.2K saves
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SlidesAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI add-on for Google Slides and PowerPoint that turns a topic or notes into a formatted slide deck in-app.
308K visits/mo30K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Basic: $0/month (12 presentations/year, 2,500-character input, 120 AI credits/year)
Pro: $10/month billed at $120/year (120 presentations/year, 6,000-character input, 600 AI credits/year, document upload)
Premium: $20.83/month billed at $250/year (unlimited presentations, 12,000-character input, 1,200 AI credits/year, document upload)
Core features
- ✦AI-generated presentation slides
- ✦On-brand design consistency
- ✦Also creates social posts and infographics
- ✦Fast iteration on decks
- ✦API access
- ✦Enterprise-scale design support
- ✦Multiple generation models (V2 through V4.1) with strong prompt fidelity
- ✦Vector and raster image generation and editing
- ✦Background removal, inpainting, and outpainting
- ✦Batch and asynchronous processing via API
- ✦Community gallery on the free tier vs. private images on paid plans
- ✦Top-up credits for usage beyond monthly plan limits
- ✦Install as a Google Slides or PowerPoint add-in
- ✦Generate slides from a topic, notes, or prompt
- ✦Choose tone and template style during generation
- ✦Rephrase, shorten, and translate slide text in place
- ✦Export as PPTX compatible with Slides and PowerPoint
- ✦100+ language support
Use cases
- →Creating professional decks without a designer
- →Producing on-brand marketing visuals
- →Early-stage pitch and concept decks
- →Generating infographics and social posts
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
- →Teachers converting lesson plans into lecture slides
- →Building business decks without leaving PowerPoint or Slides
- →Translating an existing deck into another language
- →Quickly drafting a student presentation from notes
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