At a glance

Both Alai and Gamma let you create slides using AI. However, Alai is purpose-built for presentations, giving you premium design, real customization, and superior AI. Alai does not one-shot a slide like Gamma. It gives four options per slide, allows precise iterative control, and uses specialized agents that understand color theory, design principles and personalization for each brand.

Premium design: Multi-format vs Presentation-first

Gamma is a multi-format tool designed to create documents, web pages, and presentations using the same building blocks. Because the components must work across formats, Gamma uses simple Notion-style blocks that look flat and generic. This makes most Gamma presentations feel like formatted documents rather than real slides.

Alai is built with a presentation-first approach. Therefore it has,

1. Premium looking elements: Slides look professionally designed because every element is crafted specifically for presentation aesthetics.

   
   

2. Specialized presentation elements: Alai includes elements like Compare Two and Feature Matrix that are commonly used in business and product presentations but are not available in Gamma.

   
   

   

Customization: One-size-fits-all vs flexible design

Gamma’s elements have a fixed style with minimal variation. They cannot be adapted to different content or layout needs, so presentations quickly start to look repetitive.

Alai allows precise customization of elements. You can adjust layout, spacing, text hierarchy, visual size, and the position of sub-elements. This allows the same element to work across many contexts, so slides feel tailored to the message, not constrained by a template.

AI quality and control: One-shot generation vs options, precision, and relevance

Gamma generates the entire presentation in 1 shot and has very little options for iteration. Alai’s AI works more like a designer and can iterate on the slide multiple times. This leads to higher quality slides faster.

Here is how Alai gives you deeper control over AI than Gamma:

1. 4 options instead of 1: Alai gives you 4 options per slide so it is far more likely to land a strong starting point than Gamma.

   
   

2. Precise iteration controls: Alai lets you adjust content, layout, tone, or verbosity independently using AI. In Gamma, an AI edit can unexpectedly change unrelated parts of the slide.

   
   

3. Full control over AI: Gamma uses black-box buttons like Preserve and Rewrite with no control over how the AI works. In Alai, you can edit the system prompt for precise control.

   
   

4. Uses presentation context: Gamma’s AI works in isolation whereas Alai uses presentation context. For example, when rewriting slide content Alai generates more contextual outputs.

   
   

5. AI can convert elements: Alai can transform one element into another using AI. For example, turning bullet points into a timeline with event headings and icons. Gamma cannot convert elements with AI and only supports static layouts.

   
   

6. Superior AI image generation: Since Gamma only generates 1 variant per slide, it often generates random AI images that do not fit content. Alai generates 4 variants per slide, so it can show versions with and without images. It also has much better logic in deciding when to generate relevant images. Alai also allows regeneration using slide context instead of typing prompts manually which is not possible in Gamma.

   
   

7. Free canvas AI elements: Gamma cannot generate free layout elements using AI. Alai can generate quadrants, funnels, venn diagrams, onion diagrams, and more directly using AI.

Read more about Alai’s design philosophy here

Bottom line

Gamma showed the market what is possible with AI slides. Alai is pushing the quality forward. If you want to build presentations that are clear, compelling, and high quality without spending hours designing them, try Alai.