8 Prezi alternatives and what they cost for a team

 

TL;DR

Prezi bills every paid plan annually, charges $39 per user a month for Teams ($2,340 a year for five people), keeps PDF export on its $19 a month Plus plan, and exports PowerPoint files as static slides without the zoom path. For a team, Grafista is the cheapest alternative here: €10 a month covers any number of users, with downloads, brand kits and published links included, while Gamma, Chronicle, Pitch, Canva, SlidesAI and Plus AI all charge per seat. Plus AI and SlidesAI suit anyone whose deck has to end up in PowerPoint or Google Slides. Pitch is the strongest for teams that co-edit decks and track who reads them. Storydoc turns sales decks into personalised web pages. Gamma and Chronicle generate drafts fastest but charge per seat. Canva has the largest template library and a free plan that exports PowerPoint.

 

Why people leave Prezi

Five reasons come up, and all five are visible on Prezi's own pricing page, terms and help center.

• Annual billing only: Standard is $7 a month, Plus $19 and Premium $29, all billed yearly with no monthly option. That is $84, $228 and $348 upfront.
• PDF export starts at Plus: Standard does not export PDF, and neither does the free Basic plan. Presenter view, recording and voice-over also start at Plus.
• The PowerPoint file is flat: Prezi's PowerPoint export now carries speaker notes and embedded fonts, but it produces ordinary slides. The zoom path, which is the reason to use Prezi in the first place, does not carry over, so anyone who reads the deck after the talk gets the flattened version.
• The free plan is public and small: Basic allows five projects, and anyone can see them.
• Teams cost $39 per user a month: Comments, collaboration tools and a shared brand kit sit on the Teams plan, which is $2,340 a year for five people.

None of this makes Prezi a bad product. It now builds live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A into presentations, which only Canva (through Canva Live) comes close to among the tools below. If the zooming canvas or live audience activities are the point of the talk, keep it. If the deliverable is a deck someone else will read, forward or print, these are the alternatives.

 

Grafista

While Grafista is an AI tool, it doesn't rely on prompts. but centers around the user's content. This is because it's built for amaterus and non-designs, trying to help them avoid AI slop without design knowledge or prompts skills. Blueprints, a library of existing designs, let you apply an aesthetic to your own content, so the deck does not come out in the same default style every AI tool produces. In our test of Claude Design, Canva, Moda and Grafista, the other three tools repeated one layout across three runs of the same prompt, while Grafista returned a different design every time.

For a team leaving Prezi, the relevant part is cost. Grafista does not charge per seat: €10 a month covers everyone you invite, where Prezi Teams is $39 per user. Every paid plan includes PDF and PNG downloads, brand kits and publishing. The Publish button gives each deck a permanent link, a QR code and an embed code, and when you republish after an edit, the same link shows the new version, so the link you sent last week stays correct.

Pros

• Builds the whole deck from your text, with no prompt writing
• Every element stays editable, and an editing agent handles larger changes
• Blueprints give each deck a distinct layout instead of a default AI look
• PDF and PNG downloads on every paid plan
• Published link, QR code and embed code that update when you republish
• Unlimited Brand Kits on every paid plan, not gated behind a higher tier
• Unlimited users on every paid plan, with admin, editor and viewer roles and no per-seat charge
• No card needed to start

Cons

• No PowerPoint export. Downloads are PDF and PNG only
• Static slides only: no zoom, transitions, animation or video
• The free plan cannot download or publish, and its 300 credits are one time, so it works as a trial of the editor
• Paid credits reset each month and unused ones expire; generating, importing documents, agent edits and publishing all spend credits
• A newer tool, so the template library is smaller than Canva's

Pricing

Free with 300 one-time credits and no credit card required, for creating and editing; downloads and publishing need a paid plan. Basic is €10 a month for 1,000 credits, Pro €18 for 2,000, Ultra €40 for 5,000 and Max €72 for 10,000. Every paid plan includes unlimited users, brand kits, downloads and published designs. Startups can apply for 50% off any plan for the first three months.

 

Pitch

Pitch is a collaborative slide editor for teams that build decks together and want to know who reads them. Slides are linear, several people edit in real time, and advanced sharing links report visits, slide views and time spent on each slide.

The plan structure decides most of the cost. Free covers up to five members, but its PDF exports carry Pitch branding and it has no PowerPoint export. Plus removes the branding and adds PowerPoint export, but it allows exactly one member. The moment a second person joins, you are on Team, priced per member. Pitch also imports PPTX files, which makes it the easiest place to move an existing PowerPoint library.

Pros

• Real-time co-editing, comments and version history
• Advanced links track visits, slide views and time per slide: 25 on Team, unlimited on Business
• Free plan allows up to five members and unlimited presentations
• Imports PPTX files
• Integrations with Google Sheets, HubSpot, Loom, YouTube and others
• Offline access and mobile apps

Cons

• Free PDF exports carry Pitch branding, and Free has no PowerPoint export
• Plus is limited to one member
• Pitch charges for every member except commenters, so Team for five people is €900 a year ($1,140 at US prices)
• AI credits are shared across the whole workspace: 500 a month on Team, 750 on Business
• Version history is 30 days on Team, unlimited only on Business

Pricing

Free for up to five members, with 100 AI credits that do not renew. Plus is €10 a month for one member, Team €15 per member for up to 25, Business €20 per member for up to 200, all paid yearly. US prices are higher: $13, $19 and $25. Yearly billing saves 17%. Extra AI credits cost $0.004 each. Enterprise starts at 30 seats.

 

Canva

Canva is a design suite with a presentation editor and the largest template library in this list: its pricing page lists more than 1.6 million templates on the free plan. You can start from a template and edit by hand, or use Canva AI to generate a presentation.

For Prezi users the free plan is the selling point: it downloads PDF and PowerPoint, so the export problem goes away without paying. The catch is fidelity. Canva's own help center says a downloaded PPTX can look different in PowerPoint and that animations and videos may not play, so open the file before it leaves your hands.

Pros

• Free plan exports PDF and PowerPoint
• More than 1.6 million templates on Free, more than 3.6 million on Pro
• Easiest editor here for people with no design background
• The same tool covers social posts, documents and print

Cons

• PPTX downloads often need font and layout fixes in PowerPoint
• Template-first, so every deck starts from someone else's layout
• Pro is for one person; a second user means Business
• Business is priced per person, $1,250 a year for five people

Pricing

Free plan available. Pro is $144 a year for one person. Business is $250 a year per person. The AI Pass add-on for heavier AI use costs $100 per person per month.

 

Gamma

Gamma generates a presentation, document or web page from a prompt or pasted text. The output is card-based and built for the browser first, which makes it quick to share as a link, and an AI agent edits the deck from chat.

The free plan is usable: 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides per prompt, and PDF and PowerPoint export. Those 400 credits do not refresh, and everything you export carries a "Made with Gamma" badge until you pay. Paid plans give monthly credits, and unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance.

Pros

• Fast first draft from a prompt or pasted notes
• PDF and PowerPoint export on the free plan
• Share as a web link; Pro adds custom domains, password protection and per-viewer analytics
• Unused paid credits roll over up to 2x the monthly allowance
• Annual billing saves up to 28%

Cons

• "Made with Gamma" badge on free exports
• Billed per user, so two users pay double
• Free credits are one time
• Premium image models burn credits faster
• Web-first layouts, so check exported PPTX files in PowerPoint

Pricing

Free with 400 one-time credits. Plus is $12 a seat a month, or $9 billed annually, with 1,500 monthly credits. Pro is $25, or $18 annually, with 4,000. Ultra is $100, or $90 annually, with 20,000.

 

Chronicle

Chronicle generates structured business decks from notes, documents or links, and positions itself directly against Prezi: slides instead of a zoom path, with AI deciding the layout and hierarchy. On Plus and above, its Muse agent makes edits on request.

The free plan is a manual editor with no AI features. It allows up to 10 decks, publishing to the web and PDF export, with a Chronicle watermark that Pro removes. PowerPoint export starts at Plus. AI usage is metered in tokens per user, and a full deck generation costs about 10 tokens plus one per chapter.

Pros

• AI generates structure and layout, not only text
• Publish to web and PDF export on the free plan
• Muse agent edits decks with AI on Plus
• API and MCP access for automating deck creation
• Annual billing saves 20%

Cons

• No AI on the free plan
• Chronicle watermark until Pro
• PowerPoint export starts at Plus, $25 a user a month billed annually
• Tokens belong to each user and expire monthly with no rollover
• Custom fonts only on Max

Pricing

Free for up to 10 decks. Pro is $15 a user a month, or $12 annually, with 500 tokens. Plus is $30, or $25 annually, with 1,000 tokens. Max is $59, or $45 annually, with 2,000 tokens.

 

Storydoc

Storydoc turns decks into interactive, scrollable web pages built for sales: proposals, pitch decks, one-pagers. Each prospect can get a personalised version with their name and logo, and you see who opened it and how far they read. It embeds Calendly, Loom, forms, e-signature and payments directly in the deck.

It is the furthest from Prezi's use case. Nobody presents a Storydoc on a stage; it is sent and read. If your Prezis were mostly sales follow-ups, that is a better format. If they were talks, it is not.

Pros

• Interactive decks that read well on mobile
• Personalised versions per prospect, created in bulk on Pro
• Reading analytics on every plan, extended on Pro
• CRM integrations on Pro
• PDF export on every plan
• Links stay live after you cancel

Cons

• No PowerPoint export listed
• Starter allows five active documents
• Monthly billing costs more; the pricing page labels annual billing as a 40% saving
• Teams of five or more go to custom pricing
• Built for sales, so it is a poor fit for lectures or keynotes

Pricing

Starter is $19.80 a month billed annually ($237.60 a year) with five active documents. Pro is $36 a month billed annually ($432 a year) with 30. Teams is custom for five or more users.

 

SlidesAI

SlidesAI generates slides from text, notes, scripts or documents as a Google Slides add-on, and it also offers a PowerPoint generator. The result is a native slides file, so there is no export step and no fidelity loss.

It is the cheapest paid option here. The free plan gives 200 AI credits a month, and you can import your own PPTX template as a brand kit even on free. The limits are input size and design range: free presentations are capped at 2,500 characters of input, and the slides follow templates rather than designed layouts.

Pros

• Output is a native Google Slides or PowerPoint file
• Free plan with 200 AI credits a month
• Your own PPTX template as a brand kit, even on free
• Cheapest paid plan in this list at $10 a month billed annually
• Pro accepts PDF and Word uploads

Cons

• Free input capped at 2,500 characters per presentation
• Paid credits are granted per year, not per month
• Template-driven design with less visual range than standalone tools
• Document upload and custom fonts need Pro
• Priced per user

Pricing

Basic is free with 200 AI credits a month. Pro is $10 a user a month billed annually ($120 a year) with 30,000 credits a year. Premium is $20.83 a user a month billed annually ($250 a year) with 84,000 credits. Annual billing gives two months free.

 

Plus AI

Plus AI is an add-in for PowerPoint and Google Slides. It generates full decks, inserts single slides in a chosen format, and rewrites or remixes layouts inside the app you already use. The file never leaves PowerPoint or Slides, which removes the export problem entirely.

That makes it the closest fit for anyone whose company or clients require PowerPoint. The trade is cost and access: there is no free plan, the trial needs a card, and brand customisation starts at the Team plan.

Pros

• Works inside both PowerPoint and Google Slides on one subscription
• Native slides, so no export fidelity issues
• Inserts single slides in a chosen format, not only whole decks
• MCP server and API from Pro
• SOC 2 Type II compliant

Cons

• No free plan; the 7-day trial needs a card and charges automatically
• Document uploads (PDF, docx) start at Pro
• Custom colours, fonts and logo start at Team, $30 a user a month annually
• Your own slide masters need Enterprise
• Tasks use 40 to 170 credits each, so Basic's 1,500 credits cover roughly 9 to 37 tasks a month

Pricing

Basic is $10 a user a month billed annually, or $15 monthly, with 1,500 credits. Pro is $20, or $25 monthly, with 3,000. Team is $30, or $40 monthly, with 6,000. Max is $200, or $240 monthly, with unlimited credits.

 

Which one, by job

• A designed deck from your own text, with no prompt writing: Grafista
• A whole team on one budget: Grafista, €10 a month for any number of users
• A deck that must end up in PowerPoint: Plus AI, or SlidesAI on a smaller budget
• Co-editing with viewer analytics: Pitch Team or Business
• Sales decks as personalised web pages: Storydoc
• The fastest AI first draft shared as a link: Gamma
• Free PowerPoint export and the biggest template library: Canva
• A live talk where the zoom is the point: stay on Prezi, or use PowerPoint's Summary Zoom

 

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free Prezi alternative that exports PDF?

Yes, several. Canva's free plan downloads PDF and PowerPoint. Gamma's free plan exports PDF and PowerPoint with its badge. Chronicle and Pitch export PDF on free with their branding. Prezi's free Basic plan exports no PDF at all.

What is the cheapest Prezi alternative for a team of five?

Grafista, at €120 a year on Basic, because it does not charge per seat. Per-seat tools cost more as the team grows. For five people on annual billing: Gamma Plus is $540 a year, SlidesAI Pro $600, Plus AI Basic $600, Chronicle Pro $720, Pitch Team €900 ($1,140 in the US) and Canva Business $1,250. Prezi Teams is $2,340. 

Can I move my Prezi presentations to another tool?

Not with the motion intact. Prezi downloads PowerPoint files with one static slide per frame. Pitch and Gamma import PPTX, so that file is a starting point. With Grafista, write your Prezi path as an outline, one section per frame, label each one "Page 1", "Page 2", paste it into the editor and pick the presentation size.

Does any of these keep Prezi's zoom effect?

No. All eight build linear slides or scrolling pages. If you want zooming in a standard file, PowerPoint's Summary Zoom gives you an overview slide that jumps to each section in any order.