Can a tool really read my .pptx file?

The table separates three mechanisms that product pages often merge. Template ingestion reads the company file — masters, layouts, theme — in order to generate inside it: among the ten tools compared, Paul’s cell is the only one at “yes”, those of Templafy, UpSlide, Copilot, Plus AI, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva and Pitch being at “partial” and Presenti AI’s at “not published”. Import as content, by contrast, converts the .pptx into the tool’s own format: Gamma, Canva and Pitch document what they leave behind along the way (charts, SmartArt, WordArt, headers and footers, custom fonts). A brand kit, finally, is a re-entry of colours, fonts and logos inside the tool, separate from the template: Copilot, Plus AI, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Presenti AI, Canva and Pitch have one, Templafy is at “partial”, UpSlide and Paul at “no”. Reading the “ingestion of an existing .pptx template” row tool by tool is what keeps the three apart.

Brand kit and template: what is the difference?

A template is a PowerPoint file: masters, layouts, a theme and placeholders, built by your brand team and versioned like a document. A brand kit is a setting inside the tool: a palette, one or two fonts, a logo, sometimes chart styles, entered alongside the template. The two can coexist — in Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Brand Kit accepts a .pptx or .potx file and adds logos, palettes, typography, icons and a “brand voice” entered by brand managers. The practical difference is maintenance: a brand kit lives apart from the file and must be kept up to date when the brand changes, whereas an ingested template follows the file. The table keeps the two criteria separate on purpose, so that the distinction stays readable.

Where does my data go?

Published regions vary a great deal from one vendor to the next. Templafy announces Azure with a choice of region (Europe, United States, Australia, Canada) and UpSlide Azure in West Europe and France Central, with documents never stored; Pitch hosts on AWS Ireland, with AI sub-processors in the United States. Microsoft 365 Copilot falls under the EU Data Boundary for its EU customers, with model calls routed to the nearest data centres and possible overflow, Anthropic models being excluded from that boundary and disabled by default in the EU. Plus AI, Gamma and Beautiful.ai process data in the United States with no published EU option, Canva reserves the United States or EU choice for the Enterprise, Campus and District plans, and Presenti AI does not publish its region. For Paul, the application, database and storage are hosted in the EU, with language models called at third-party providers under contract; the “training on your content” row reads separately, since it describes a different commitment.

Do I need a PowerPoint add-in?

It depends on where your teams work. In this comparison, UpSlide, Templafy, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Plus AI offer an add-in; Beautiful.ai has one that inserts “Smart Slides”, without prompt-based generation inside the add-in being described. Gamma, Presenti AI, Pitch and Paul are web applications, and Canva a web, desktop and mobile editor: the file goes through an export or a download. An add-in implies an installation managed by IT and, for UpSlide, a Windows machine; a web application opens in a browser and hands back a file you then open in PowerPoint. The “works inside PowerPoint” row of the table gives the detail vendor by vendor.

How is this comparison built and kept up to date?

Every cell comes from a public vendor page — product page, pricing page, help centre, security page or data processing agreement — whose link and date of access appear below the table. The facts were recorded on 22 September 2026; where an item is not published, the cell reads “not published” instead of “no”. Prices are quoted in the currency and for the period displayed by the vendor, without conversion. Visual quality, negotiated prices and support are not assessed: they depend on your own context. If a cell looks wrong or out of date, report it from the contact page with the link to the source; the correction and the recording date are updated together.

Comparisons

AI and corporate PowerPoint templates: the 2026 comparison.

This page compares ten AI presentation tools on twelve verifiable criteria: template ingestion, output format, hosting, training, certifications and pricing. It settles a question product pages often leave open: which tool actually reads your .pptx file, masters and layouts included, rather than a brand kit you re-enter?

How this comparison is built

Public sources only.Every cell in the table points to an official vendor page: product page, pricing page, help centre, security page or data processing agreement. No internal test, no user review and no third-party article is used as evidence.
Dated facts, recorded on 22 September 2026.Every source carries its date of access, and the table carries its own. At each new check, the amended cells and the recording date change together.
What this comparison does not judge.Visual quality, negotiated prices, support responsiveness and team satisfaction are not here: those criteria are measured at your organisation, not on a vendor page. The table sticks to what is published and verifiable.
“Not published” is not “no”.When a vendor does not publish the information — hosting region, training on your content, price —, the cell reads “not published” rather than passing judgment. A missing feature and a missing statement are two different things.

Does a cell look wrong or out of date? Write to us from the contact page with the link to the source: justified corrections are applied within a few days, and the recording date is updated with them.

Ten tools, twelve criteria

The tools are ordered by positioning: first those that work inside PowerPoint and its templates, then those that create in their own format, with Paul last. Every cell links to its source, numbered below the table.

Criterion	Templafy	UpSlide	Microsoft 365 Copilot (Brand Kit)	Plus AI	Gamma	Beautiful.ai	Presenti AI	Canva	Pitch	Paul
Prompt-based generationDoes the tool produce a complete deck (structure and slides) from an instruction?	Yes: a complete, editable presentation from a prompt and context files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf).¹	Partial and in beta: “AI Slide Generator (Beta)” available only through MCP (Claude) since June 2026; the built-in assistant condenses, rephrases and translates text.²	Yes: a complete presentation from a description or a Word document; a single output language at a time.³	Yes: a complete deck from a prompt or a file (PDF, docx, txt from Pro upwards); an agent edits existing slides.⁴	Yes: presentations, documents, websites and posts; 10 slides per prompt on the free plan, up to 100 on Plus.⁵	Yes: a slide-by-slide outline, then designed slides, from a prompt, an outline or a document.^{6, 7}	Yes: an approved outline then complete slides, from a prompt, files (Word, PDF, Markdown, PPTX), a URL or audio; 15 to 75 slides per file depending on the plan.⁸	Yes: an editable outline then slides; generation from data (CSV, Sheets); a premium tool counted against the monthly AI allowance.⁹	Yes: “Pitch Agent” (May 2026) builds a complete deck from a prompt and a template, with attached files and editing by chat.¹⁰	Yes: a complete deck from an instruction and attached documents (PDF, Excel, text).¹¹
Ingestion of an existing .pptx templateDoes the tool read the company PowerPoint file (masters, layouts, theme) and generate inside it?	Team and Enterprise plans: the brand’s “templates, layouts, assets and styling”; the .pptx ingestion mechanism is not described on the public pages consulted. The free plan uses predefined themes.^{1, 12}	The company PowerPoint templates are deployed in the add-in and configured by UpSlide at rollout (setup fee); no self-service ingestion documented.^{13, 14}	Brand Kit: a .pptx or .potx file uploaded to the Copilot app, or organisation templates through a SharePoint library (Microsoft 365 E3/E5); Copilot selects layouts among the sample slides and changes neither font size nor placeholder size.¹⁵	In beta, Google Slides only (Team plan): 25 slides per template, 5 templates per team, imported charts and tables become static elements; PowerPoint announced as “coming soon”; manual conversion on Enterprise (2 to 4 weeks).¹⁶	Import of the .pptx as content (converted into a Gamma document, some charts turned into images) and “Import Theme”, which extracts colours, fonts and logos; PowerPoint masters and layouts are not mentioned.^{17, 18}	Import of PowerPoint slides (Pro plan and above) into a Beautiful.ai theme, with the font detected; masters and layouts not published; no .potx ingestion documented.¹⁹	Not published: a .pptx can be uploaded to be re-laid out by the AI; ingestion of masters and layouts as a template is not documented.²⁰	PowerPoint import converted into a Canva design (beta, desktop browser): charts, SmartArt, 3D and WordArt ignored, fonts approximated; masters not carried over as a Brand Template.²¹	.pptx import converted into a Pitch presentation with the creation of a “slide style” (colours, fonts); 16:9 only; headers, footers, custom fonts, videos and animations are not supported.²²	Yes: the company .pptx file is ingested once (masters, layouts, palette, fonts) and is used for every generation.^{23, 11}
Brand kit to re-enterMust colours, fonts and logos be entered in the tool, separately from the template?	Centralised management of brand templates and assets (paid plans); colour customisation on the free plan.¹²	No: the firm’s own PowerPoint files are used, with locking of fonts, colours and sensitive slides.¹⁴	Yes: logos, palettes, typography, icons, chart styles and “brand voice” entered in the Brand Kit by “brand managers”, in addition to the template file.¹⁵	Yes: colours, fonts and logo applied to Plus’s base template (Team plan); incompatible with imported templates.²⁴	Yes: shared workspace themes (colours, fonts, logos), “Custom branding” from the Pro plan upwards.⁵	Yes: a custom theme (colours, fonts, logos, icons, footers), shared team themes with locking and “brand guardrails”.^{6, 25}	Yes: logos, fonts and colours entered in a Brand Kit; custom templates created in the tool.⁸	Yes: logos, colours, fonts (500 per kit) and Brand Templates; 1 kit on the free plan, 5 on Pro, 100 on Business, 1,000 on Enterprise.²⁶	Yes: templates created in Pitch; the agent generates a branded template from a domain name (logo, colours, fonts).¹⁰	Not required: colours, fonts and logos come from the ingested template.²³
Output formatNative .pptx, .pptx export from a proprietary format, or web format.	Native editable PowerPoint, downloaded from the browser.¹	Native PowerPoint: the add-in works inside the user’s file and does not store documents.²⁷	Native PowerPoint, saved to OneDrive.³	Native .pptx and native Google Slides.⁴	Native web format; PPTX, PDF, PNG and Google Slides export; a “Made by Gamma” badge on the free plan; differences between the export and the web rendering documented by the vendor.²⁸	Native web format; editable PowerPoint export on Pro, Team and Enterprise; animations and audio are lost, fonts must be installed.²⁹	Native editable PPTX export reserved for the paid plans; PDF, PNG, JPG; the vendor warns that fonts, charts and layouts may differ.³⁰	Proprietary format; PPTX export (presentations): the rendering may differ in PowerPoint, animations and videos are not supported, fonts have to be installed.³¹	Proprietary format; paid PPTX export (from Plus upwards): fonts may fall back to Calibri, animations and videos are lost.³²	Native editable .pptx (every element stays editable in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides).¹¹
Works inside PowerPointAdd-in in the PowerPoint ribbon, or separate application.	Yes: a “Templafy Agent” add-in in PowerPoint, and a web agent in the browser.¹	Yes: Microsoft 365 add-in (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Power BI, Outlook), Windows.³³	Yes: Copilot pane in PowerPoint (Windows, Mac, web) and the Copilot app.¹⁵	Yes: an add-in in the Home tab (desktop application recommended), a paid plan is required.³⁴	No: web application; file import and export.¹⁷	An add-in that inserts “Smart Slides”; prompt-based generation inside the add-in is not described.³⁵	No: web editor; export to PowerPoint.⁸	No on the pages consulted: Canva editor on web, desktop and mobile.²¹	No: Pitch editor on web and desktop; public MCP and API.³⁶	No: web application; the generated .pptx opens in PowerPoint.¹¹
Hosting and data residencyPublished regions, EU option, AI sub-processors.	Microsoft Azure, choice of regions: Europe, United States, Australia, Canada.³⁷	Microsoft Azure, West Europe and France Central regions; documents never stored.²⁷	EU Data Boundary for EU customers; model calls routed to the nearest data centres, with possible overflow; Anthropic models excluded from the EU Data Boundary and disabled by default in the EU.³⁸	AWS, regions not published; data processing in the United States; EU option not published.^{39, 40}	Processing in the United States; all the sub-processors listed in the DPA (AWS, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure…) are located in the United States; EU option not published.⁴¹	Servers located in the United States; cloud provider and EU option not published.⁴²	Hosting region not published; documents sent to the ChatGPT model for analysis; private deployment on quotation.^{43, 44}	Data residency in either the United States or the EU, reserved for the Enterprise, Campus and District plans; cloud providers not named.⁴⁵	AWS Ireland (eu-west-1), infrastructure in European regions; AI sub-processors in the United States (OpenAI, Anthropic, fal), with exceptions provided for in the DPA.^{46, 47}	Application, database and storage hosted in the EU; language models called at third-party providers under contract.^{48, 11}
Training on your contentWhat the vendor publishes about using customer content to train models.	For the AI Assistant (2024 white paper): prompts and generations are not used to train the models; nothing published for the 2026 free agent.³⁷	“No data is stored, reused, or used for training”; AI processing in an Azure AI Foundry dedicated to the customer.²⁷	Prompts, responses and Microsoft Graph data are not used to train the foundation models.³⁸	Contractually excluded on Enterprise; on the other plans, aggregated and anonymised data is used to improve the service, with no published opt-out.⁴⁰	Individual plans: content is used for training by default, with an opt-out in the settings; Business and Enterprise: excluded.⁴⁹	No training of public models on the content; retention of 30 days at most at the AI providers.⁵⁰	Not published.	Business, Teams and Enterprise content is not used to improve the AI; individual accounts according to their privacy settings.^{51, 52}	Not verifiable: the “How we use AI” page returns a 404 error as of 22 September 2026; the AI can be disabled in the workspace.¹⁰	The vendor states that no model is trained on customer content, with a training opt-out at the model providers.^{48, 11}
Published certificationsSOC 2, ISO 27001 and similar, as displayed by the vendor.	SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, Microsoft 365 App Certified.³⁷	SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 (“fully certified” according to the security page).²⁷	ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 42001; Office 365 covered by SOC 2 Type 2.³⁸	SOC 2 Type II.³⁹	SOC 2 Type II.⁴¹	SOC 2 Type II (the vendor also lists “GDPR”, “CCPA”, “PCI”).⁵⁰	Not published.	ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, PCI DSS, Data Privacy Framework.⁵¹	Not published on pitch.com.	No certification published to date.
Public pricingPrices displayed on 22 September 2026, currency and period as published.	Individual: free (1 seat); Team: $40 per user per month (max. 25 seats, billing period not published); Enterprise: on quotation.¹²	On quotation; minimum 5 licences, no individual licence, setup fee; AI sold as yearly credit packs.¹³	Add-on to an eligible Microsoft 365 licence: 26,00 € excl. tax per user per month, paid yearly (France page); Copilot Business (max. 300 users): 18,20 € excl. tax, promotion at 15,60 € excl. tax until 31 December 2026.⁵³	Basic $10, Pro $20, Team $30, Max $200 per user per month billed yearly ($15, $25, $40, $240 monthly); Enterprise on quotation.⁴	Free; Plus $9 per seat per month ($108 per year); Pro $18 ($216 per year); Ultra $90; Business $40 per member per month billed yearly; Enterprise on quotation.⁵	Pro $14.50 per month billed yearly ($45 monthly); Team $40 per month billed yearly ($50 monthly), 2 to 20 users; Enterprise on quotation.⁵⁴	Free; billed yearly, Plus $6, Pro $8, Ultra $16 per month ($9.50, $18, $36 billed monthly); Teams and Enterprise on quotation; prices displayed in dollars, including on the French page.³⁰	Free; Pro 110 € per year for one person; Business 170 € per year per person (yearly prices as displayed from France); Enterprise on quotation.⁵⁵	Free; Plus 10 € per month billed yearly (12 € billed monthly); Team 15 € (18 €); Business 20 € (24 €) per seat; Enterprise from 30 seats on quotation.⁵⁶	Monthly or yearly subscriptions (Paul, Paul Pro), prices shown in euros including VAT on the pricing page; Enterprise plan on quotation.⁵⁷
Trial or free planPermanent free plan, limited trial, card required.	Free plan without a card; 14-day trial on Team.¹²	No free trial mentioned.¹³	No trial on the Enterprise plan; one-month trial on Copilot Business.⁵³	7-day trial with 1,000 credits, card required.⁴	Permanent free plan (400 credits on sign-up).⁵	14-day trial with a card; no permanent free plan.⁵⁴	Permanent free plan (15 slides per file).³⁰	Permanent free plan; trial of Pro and Business.⁵⁵	Permanent free plan (100 AI credits, not renewed).⁵⁶	Free 7-day trial with a card and no charge; two months free on the yearly plan.⁵⁷
LanguagesInterface and generated content, as published.	Language of the generated content not published; the tool offers to “rewrite or translate”.¹	Interface in English or French; AI translation into French, English and German.³³	49 languages, including French (France and Canada).⁵⁸	More than 80 languages for prompts and generated content; interface language not published.⁵⁹	More than 60 languages for the content; interface in 14 languages, including French.⁶⁰	More than 100 languages for the content; interface language not published.⁵⁴	Interface in 7 languages, including French; generated content in more than 40 languages.⁸	Interface in more than 100 languages; AI presentations from data in 20 languages, including French.⁹	Interface in English only; an AI action to translate slides.³⁶	Interface in 23 languages; generation in the requested language.¹¹
Declared targetWho the vendor says it serves.	Large accounts (“800+ global enterprises”), sales, marketing, finance, professional services; free plan open to individuals.⁶¹	Finance professionals (M&A, transaction services, investment banking, private equity, asset management, advisory).¹⁴	Businesses with a Microsoft 365 licence (E3/E5…) and SMEs with up to 300 users.⁶²	“Professional presentation makers”: consultants, sales, marketing, startups, trainers.⁴	General public and teams (“100+ million users”); Business for teams with SSO.⁵	Teams, consultants and agencies, SMEs, large enterprises.⁶	Professional general public and education; Enterprise offer and private deployment.⁶³	General public and businesses (“95% of the Fortune 500”); Business for individuals and small teams.⁵⁵	Sales and go-to-market teams, from startups to large accounts.⁵⁶	Teams and organisations producing presentations under imposed brand guidelines (consulting, finance, PMO, communications, agencies).¹¹

Paul

Prompt-based generation: Yes: a complete deck from an instruction and attached documents (PDF, Excel, text).¹¹
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Yes: the company .pptx file is ingested once (masters, layouts, palette, fonts) and is used for every generation.^{23, 11}
Brand kit to re-enter: Not required: colours, fonts and logos come from the ingested template.²³
Output format: Native editable .pptx (every element stays editable in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides).¹¹
Works inside PowerPoint: No: web application; the generated .pptx opens in PowerPoint.¹¹
Hosting and data residency: Application, database and storage hosted in the EU; language models called at third-party providers under contract.^{48, 11}
Training on your content: The vendor states that no model is trained on customer content, with a training opt-out at the model providers.^{48, 11}
Published certifications: No certification published to date.
Public pricing: Monthly or yearly subscriptions (Paul, Paul Pro), prices shown in euros including VAT on the pricing page; Enterprise plan on quotation.⁵⁷
Trial or free plan: Free 7-day trial with a card and no charge; two months free on the yearly plan.⁵⁷
Languages: Interface in 23 languages; generation in the requested language.¹¹
Declared target: Teams and organisations producing presentations under imposed brand guidelines (consulting, finance, PMO, communications, agencies).¹¹

Pitch

Prompt-based generation: Yes: “Pitch Agent” (May 2026) builds a complete deck from a prompt and a template, with attached files and editing by chat.¹⁰
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: .pptx import converted into a Pitch presentation with the creation of a “slide style” (colours, fonts); 16:9 only; headers, footers, custom fonts, videos and animations are not supported.²²
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: templates created in Pitch; the agent generates a branded template from a domain name (logo, colours, fonts).¹⁰
Output format: Proprietary format; paid PPTX export (from Plus upwards): fonts may fall back to Calibri, animations and videos are lost.³²
Works inside PowerPoint: No: Pitch editor on web and desktop; public MCP and API.³⁶
Hosting and data residency: AWS Ireland (eu-west-1), infrastructure in European regions; AI sub-processors in the United States (OpenAI, Anthropic, fal), with exceptions provided for in the DPA.^{46, 47}
Training on your content: Not verifiable: the “How we use AI” page returns a 404 error as of 22 September 2026; the AI can be disabled in the workspace.¹⁰
Published certifications: Not published on pitch.com.
Public pricing: Free; Plus 10 € per month billed yearly (12 € billed monthly); Team 15 € (18 €); Business 20 € (24 €) per seat; Enterprise from 30 seats on quotation.⁵⁶
Trial or free plan: Permanent free plan (100 AI credits, not renewed).⁵⁶
Languages: Interface in English only; an AI action to translate slides.³⁶
Declared target: Sales and go-to-market teams, from startups to large accounts.⁵⁶

Canva

Prompt-based generation: Yes: an editable outline then slides; generation from data (CSV, Sheets); a premium tool counted against the monthly AI allowance.⁹
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: PowerPoint import converted into a Canva design (beta, desktop browser): charts, SmartArt, 3D and WordArt ignored, fonts approximated; masters not carried over as a Brand Template.²¹
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: logos, colours, fonts (500 per kit) and Brand Templates; 1 kit on the free plan, 5 on Pro, 100 on Business, 1,000 on Enterprise.²⁶
Output format: Proprietary format; PPTX export (presentations): the rendering may differ in PowerPoint, animations and videos are not supported, fonts have to be installed.³¹
Works inside PowerPoint: No on the pages consulted: Canva editor on web, desktop and mobile.²¹
Hosting and data residency: Data residency in either the United States or the EU, reserved for the Enterprise, Campus and District plans; cloud providers not named.⁴⁵
Training on your content: Business, Teams and Enterprise content is not used to improve the AI; individual accounts according to their privacy settings.^{51, 52}
Published certifications: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, PCI DSS, Data Privacy Framework.⁵¹
Public pricing: Free; Pro 110 € per year for one person; Business 170 € per year per person (yearly prices as displayed from France); Enterprise on quotation.⁵⁵
Trial or free plan: Permanent free plan; trial of Pro and Business.⁵⁵
Languages: Interface in more than 100 languages; AI presentations from data in 20 languages, including French.⁹
Declared target: General public and businesses (“95% of the Fortune 500”); Business for individuals and small teams.⁵⁵

Presenti AI

Prompt-based generation: Yes: an approved outline then complete slides, from a prompt, files (Word, PDF, Markdown, PPTX), a URL or audio; 15 to 75 slides per file depending on the plan.⁸
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Not published: a .pptx can be uploaded to be re-laid out by the AI; ingestion of masters and layouts as a template is not documented.²⁰
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: logos, fonts and colours entered in a Brand Kit; custom templates created in the tool.⁸
Output format: Native editable PPTX export reserved for the paid plans; PDF, PNG, JPG; the vendor warns that fonts, charts and layouts may differ.³⁰
Works inside PowerPoint: No: web editor; export to PowerPoint.⁸
Hosting and data residency: Hosting region not published; documents sent to the ChatGPT model for analysis; private deployment on quotation.^{43, 44}
Training on your content: Not published.
Published certifications: Not published.
Public pricing: Free; billed yearly, Plus $6, Pro $8, Ultra $16 per month ($9.50, $18, $36 billed monthly); Teams and Enterprise on quotation; prices displayed in dollars, including on the French page.³⁰
Trial or free plan: Permanent free plan (15 slides per file).³⁰
Languages: Interface in 7 languages, including French; generated content in more than 40 languages.⁸
Declared target: Professional general public and education; Enterprise offer and private deployment.⁶³

Beautiful.ai

Prompt-based generation: Yes: a slide-by-slide outline, then designed slides, from a prompt, an outline or a document.^{6, 7}
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Import of PowerPoint slides (Pro plan and above) into a Beautiful.ai theme, with the font detected; masters and layouts not published; no .potx ingestion documented.¹⁹
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: a custom theme (colours, fonts, logos, icons, footers), shared team themes with locking and “brand guardrails”.^{6, 25}
Output format: Native web format; editable PowerPoint export on Pro, Team and Enterprise; animations and audio are lost, fonts must be installed.²⁹
Works inside PowerPoint: An add-in that inserts “Smart Slides”; prompt-based generation inside the add-in is not described.³⁵
Hosting and data residency: Servers located in the United States; cloud provider and EU option not published.⁴²
Training on your content: No training of public models on the content; retention of 30 days at most at the AI providers.⁵⁰
Published certifications: SOC 2 Type II (the vendor also lists “GDPR”, “CCPA”, “PCI”).⁵⁰
Public pricing: Pro $14.50 per month billed yearly ($45 monthly); Team $40 per month billed yearly ($50 monthly), 2 to 20 users; Enterprise on quotation.⁵⁴
Trial or free plan: 14-day trial with a card; no permanent free plan.⁵⁴
Languages: More than 100 languages for the content; interface language not published.⁵⁴
Declared target: Teams, consultants and agencies, SMEs, large enterprises.⁶

Gamma

Prompt-based generation: Yes: presentations, documents, websites and posts; 10 slides per prompt on the free plan, up to 100 on Plus.⁵
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Import of the .pptx as content (converted into a Gamma document, some charts turned into images) and “Import Theme”, which extracts colours, fonts and logos; PowerPoint masters and layouts are not mentioned.^{17, 18}
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: shared workspace themes (colours, fonts, logos), “Custom branding” from the Pro plan upwards.⁵
Output format: Native web format; PPTX, PDF, PNG and Google Slides export; a “Made by Gamma” badge on the free plan; differences between the export and the web rendering documented by the vendor.²⁸
Works inside PowerPoint: No: web application; file import and export.¹⁷
Hosting and data residency: Processing in the United States; all the sub-processors listed in the DPA (AWS, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure…) are located in the United States; EU option not published.⁴¹
Training on your content: Individual plans: content is used for training by default, with an opt-out in the settings; Business and Enterprise: excluded.⁴⁹
Published certifications: SOC 2 Type II.⁴¹
Public pricing: Free; Plus $9 per seat per month ($108 per year); Pro $18 ($216 per year); Ultra $90; Business $40 per member per month billed yearly; Enterprise on quotation.⁵
Trial or free plan: Permanent free plan (400 credits on sign-up).⁵
Languages: More than 60 languages for the content; interface in 14 languages, including French.⁶⁰
Declared target: General public and teams (“100+ million users”); Business for teams with SSO.⁵

Plus AI

Prompt-based generation: Yes: a complete deck from a prompt or a file (PDF, docx, txt from Pro upwards); an agent edits existing slides.⁴
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: In beta, Google Slides only (Team plan): 25 slides per template, 5 templates per team, imported charts and tables become static elements; PowerPoint announced as “coming soon”; manual conversion on Enterprise (2 to 4 weeks).¹⁶
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: colours, fonts and logo applied to Plus’s base template (Team plan); incompatible with imported templates.²⁴
Output format: Native .pptx and native Google Slides.⁴
Works inside PowerPoint: Yes: an add-in in the Home tab (desktop application recommended), a paid plan is required.³⁴
Hosting and data residency: AWS, regions not published; data processing in the United States; EU option not published.^{39, 40}
Training on your content: Contractually excluded on Enterprise; on the other plans, aggregated and anonymised data is used to improve the service, with no published opt-out.⁴⁰
Published certifications: SOC 2 Type II.³⁹
Public pricing: Basic $10, Pro $20, Team $30, Max $200 per user per month billed yearly ($15, $25, $40, $240 monthly); Enterprise on quotation.⁴
Trial or free plan: 7-day trial with 1,000 credits, card required.⁴
Languages: More than 80 languages for prompts and generated content; interface language not published.⁵⁹
Declared target: “Professional presentation makers”: consultants, sales, marketing, startups, trainers.⁴

Microsoft 365 Copilot (Brand Kit)

Prompt-based generation: Yes: a complete presentation from a description or a Word document; a single output language at a time.³
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Brand Kit: a .pptx or .potx file uploaded to the Copilot app, or organisation templates through a SharePoint library (Microsoft 365 E3/E5); Copilot selects layouts among the sample slides and changes neither font size nor placeholder size.¹⁵
Brand kit to re-enter: Yes: logos, palettes, typography, icons, chart styles and “brand voice” entered in the Brand Kit by “brand managers”, in addition to the template file.¹⁵
Output format: Native PowerPoint, saved to OneDrive.³
Works inside PowerPoint: Yes: Copilot pane in PowerPoint (Windows, Mac, web) and the Copilot app.¹⁵
Hosting and data residency: EU Data Boundary for EU customers; model calls routed to the nearest data centres, with possible overflow; Anthropic models excluded from the EU Data Boundary and disabled by default in the EU.³⁸
Training on your content: Prompts, responses and Microsoft Graph data are not used to train the foundation models.³⁸
Published certifications: ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 42001; Office 365 covered by SOC 2 Type 2.³⁸
Public pricing: Add-on to an eligible Microsoft 365 licence: 26,00 € excl. tax per user per month, paid yearly (France page); Copilot Business (max. 300 users): 18,20 € excl. tax, promotion at 15,60 € excl. tax until 31 December 2026.⁵³
Trial or free plan: No trial on the Enterprise plan; one-month trial on Copilot Business.⁵³
Languages: 49 languages, including French (France and Canada).⁵⁸
Declared target: Businesses with a Microsoft 365 licence (E3/E5…) and SMEs with up to 300 users.⁶²

UpSlide

Prompt-based generation: Partial and in beta: “AI Slide Generator (Beta)” available only through MCP (Claude) since June 2026; the built-in assistant condenses, rephrases and translates text.²
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: The company PowerPoint templates are deployed in the add-in and configured by UpSlide at rollout (setup fee); no self-service ingestion documented.^{13, 14}
Brand kit to re-enter: No: the firm’s own PowerPoint files are used, with locking of fonts, colours and sensitive slides.¹⁴
Output format: Native PowerPoint: the add-in works inside the user’s file and does not store documents.²⁷
Works inside PowerPoint: Yes: Microsoft 365 add-in (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Power BI, Outlook), Windows.³³
Hosting and data residency: Microsoft Azure, West Europe and France Central regions; documents never stored.²⁷
Training on your content: “No data is stored, reused, or used for training”; AI processing in an Azure AI Foundry dedicated to the customer.²⁷
Published certifications: SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 (“fully certified” according to the security page).²⁷
Public pricing: On quotation; minimum 5 licences, no individual licence, setup fee; AI sold as yearly credit packs.¹³
Trial or free plan: No free trial mentioned.¹³
Languages: Interface in English or French; AI translation into French, English and German.³³
Declared target: Finance professionals (M&A, transaction services, investment banking, private equity, asset management, advisory).¹⁴

Templafy

Prompt-based generation: Yes: a complete, editable presentation from a prompt and context files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf).¹
Ingestion of an existing .pptx template: Team and Enterprise plans: the brand’s “templates, layouts, assets and styling”; the .pptx ingestion mechanism is not described on the public pages consulted. The free plan uses predefined themes.^{1, 12}
Brand kit to re-enter: Centralised management of brand templates and assets (paid plans); colour customisation on the free plan.¹²
Output format: Native editable PowerPoint, downloaded from the browser.¹
Works inside PowerPoint: Yes: a “Templafy Agent” add-in in PowerPoint, and a web agent in the browser.¹
Hosting and data residency: Microsoft Azure, choice of regions: Europe, United States, Australia, Canada.³⁷
Training on your content: For the AI Assistant (2024 white paper): prompts and generations are not used to train the models; nothing published for the 2026 free agent.³⁷
Published certifications: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, Microsoft 365 App Certified.³⁷
Public pricing: Individual: free (1 seat); Team: $40 per user per month (max. 25 seats, billing period not published); Enterprise: on quotation.¹²
Trial or free plan: Free plan without a card; 14-day trial on Team.¹²
Languages: Language of the generated content not published; the tool offers to “rewrite or translate”.¹
Declared target: Large accounts (“800+ global enterprises”), sales, marketing, finance, professional services; free plan open to individuals.⁶¹

Sources

Templafy — AI PowerPoint Maker — September 22, 2026
UpSlide Help & Support — Release notes — September 22, 2026
Microsoft Support — Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint — September 22, 2026
Plus AI — Pricing — September 22, 2026
Gamma — Plans and pricing — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai — Brand Controls & Themes — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai Support — Create with AI (article 12885226948109) — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — AI PPT Maker — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Canva AI Frequently Asked Questions — September 22, 2026
Pitch — Introducing Pitch Agent — September 22, 2026
Paul · L’IA qui compose vos présentations dans votre template — September 22, 2026
Templafy — Pricing — September 22, 2026
UpSlide — Pricing — September 22, 2026
UpSlide — About us — September 22, 2026
Microsoft Support — Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot — September 22, 2026
Plus AI Guide — Custom templates (beta) — September 22, 2026
Gamma Help Center — How can I import slides or content into Gamma? — September 22, 2026
Gamma — How to keep your brand consistent across every presentation — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai Support — Importing a PowerPoint presentation (article 360059654532) — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — Beautify Slides AI — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Import PowerPoint presentations — September 22, 2026
Pitch Help Center — Import a presentation — September 22, 2026
IA qui respecte votre template d’entreprise · Paul — September 22, 2026
Plus AI Guide — Custom branding — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai Support — Team Theme: Overview — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Set up Brand Kits — September 22, 2026
UpSlide — Security — September 22, 2026
Gamma Help Center — Why doesn’t my exported PDF or PowerPoint match what I see in Gamma? — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai Support — Editable PowerPoint export (article 360035562031) — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — Pricing — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Choose the right download file type for your Canva design — September 22, 2026
Pitch Help Center — Export a presentation to PowerPoint — September 22, 2026
UpSlide — PowerPoint automation tool — September 22, 2026
Plus AI Guide — Install in PowerPoint — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai Support — Using the PowerPoint add-in (article 9147390961677) — September 22, 2026
Pitch Help Center — Pitch plans and pricing — September 22, 2026
Templafy — Security at Templafy — September 22, 2026
Microsoft Learn — Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot — September 22, 2026
Plus AI — Security — September 22, 2026
Plus AI — Privacy Policy — September 22, 2026
Gamma — Data Processing Addendum — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai — Privacy Policy — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — Privacy Policy — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — Private Deployment — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Set your organization’s data residency preference — September 22, 2026
Pitch — GDPR Overview — September 22, 2026
Pitch — Data Processing Agreement — September 22, 2026
Sécurité & conformité · Paul — September 22, 2026
Gamma Help Center — Does Gamma use my content to train its AI features? — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai — Security — September 22, 2026
Canva Trust Center — September 22, 2026
Canva Help Center — Manage your privacy preferences — September 22, 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot — Tarifs (FR) — September 22, 2026
Beautiful.ai — Pricing — September 22, 2026
Canva — Pricing — September 22, 2026
Pitch — Pricing — September 22, 2026
Tarification · Paul — September 22, 2026
Microsoft Support — Supported languages for Microsoft 365 Copilot — September 22, 2026
Plus AI — Multi-language — September 22, 2026
Gamma Help Center — How do I use Gamma in my preferred language? — September 22, 2026
Templafy — News: Templafy gives everyone instant access to professional AI PowerPoint creation — September 22, 2026
Microsoft Learn — Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing — September 22, 2026
Presenti AI — About Us — September 22, 2026

Facts recorded on 22 September 2026. Report an error

One portrait per tool

Two sentences per tool: who publishes it, from which country, in what form, and the fact that sets it apart in this comparison. The details and their sources are in the table above.

01
TemplafyA Danish vendor, available both as a “Templafy Agent” add-in inside PowerPoint and as a web agent. Its Team and Enterprise plans centrally manage brand templates and assets; the public pages consulted do not describe how the .pptx file is ingested, and the free plan relies on predefined themes.
02
UpSlideA French vendor, a Microsoft 365 add-in for Windows (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Power BI, Outlook) aimed at finance professionals. The firm’s PowerPoint templates are deployed and configured by UpSlide at rollout, with fonts, colours and sensitive slides locked; processing runs on Azure in the West Europe and France Central regions, with documents never stored.
03
Microsoft 365 Copilot (Brand Kit)A feature of the Microsoft 365 suite, sold as an add-on to an eligible licence and usable from the Copilot pane in PowerPoint as well as from the Copilot app. Its Brand Kit accepts a .pptx or .potx file uploaded to the Copilot app, or organisation templates through a SharePoint library (Microsoft 365 E3/E5); Copilot selects layouts among the sample slides and changes neither font sizes nor placeholder sizes.
04
Plus AIA US vendor, an add-in for PowerPoint and Google Slides that generates a deck from a prompt or a file. Custom template import is in beta and limited to Google Slides on the Team plan (25 slides per template, 5 templates per team), with the PowerPoint version announced as “coming soon”; the brand kit applies to the Plus base template and remains incompatible with imported templates.
05
GammaA US vendor, a web application that produces presentations, documents, sites and posts in its own format. A .pptx file can be imported as content and an “Import Theme” extracts its colours, fonts and logos; PowerPoint masters and layouts are not mentioned, and the vendor documents differences between its web rendering and the PPTX export.
06
Beautiful.aiA US vendor, a web application paired with an add-in that inserts “Smart Slides” into PowerPoint. Importing PowerPoint slides into a Beautiful.ai theme is available from the Pro plan, with nothing published on masters and layouts or on ingesting a .potx file; editable PowerPoint export is reserved for the Pro, Team and Enterprise plans.
07
Presenti AIPublished by Shenzhen Pixso Technology, with addresses published in Shenzhen and Hong Kong; a web editor, with no PowerPoint add-in. Generation starts from a prompt, files, a URL or audio, and the brand is entered in a Brand Kit; ingesting the masters and layouts of a .pptx file as a template is not documented, and neither is the hosting region.
08
CanvaAn Australian vendor, an online design suite in which the AI presentation is one tool among many, counted against the monthly AI allowance. PowerPoint import, in beta on desktop browsers, converts the file into a Canva design — charts, SmartArt, 3D and WordArt ignored, fonts approximated — and masters are not carried over as a Brand Template; data residency in the United States or the EU is reserved for the Enterprise, Campus and District plans.
09
PitchA German vendor, a web and desktop application with a public MCP server and API. Its “Pitch Agent” builds a deck from a prompt and a template, and can generate a brand template from a domain name; .pptx import creates a “slide style” but supports neither headers, footers nor custom fonts, and PPTX export is paid.
10
PaulPublished by Logitopia SAS in France, a web application with no PowerPoint add-in. The company .pptx file is ingested once — masters, layouts, palette, fonts — and serves every generation, which comes out as a native, editable .pptx; the application, database and storage are hosted in the EU, with language models called at third-party providers under contract.

Which tool for your situation

The twelve criteria do not read the same way depending on what you are looking for. Here are three common situations and the tools from the table that fit them.

01
You govern templates inside PowerPoint
UpSlide deploys and configures the firm’s PowerPoint files in a Windows add-in, with fonts, colours and sensitive slides locked, and quotes on request from five licences upwards. Templafy centralises brand templates and assets on its Team and Enterprise plans, with an add-in and a web agent, and publishes SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Microsoft 365 Copilot adds a Brand Kit fed by a .pptx file or a SharePoint library, as an add-on to an eligible Microsoft 365 licence, provided the suite is already in place.
02
You create quickly, outside your template
Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva, Pitch, Presenti AI and Plus AI start from a prompt and produce in their own format or in an in-house theme, with the brand re-entered as a brand kit. Gamma, Canva, Pitch and Presenti AI offer a permanent free plan, Beautiful.ai and Plus AI a limited trial with a card. Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva, Pitch and Presenti AI document differences on PowerPoint export — fonts to install, animations and videos lost, rendering that may differ — and Beautiful.ai, Pitch and Presenti AI reserve that export for paid plans.
03
You generate inside the existing template
Paul ingests the company .pptx file once — masters, layouts, palette, fonts — and uses it for every generation, delivered as a native, editable .pptx. Among the tools compared, Paul and UpSlide are the two whose “brand kit to re-enter” cell reads “no”: the brand is not entered alongside the template, Paul reading it from the ingested file and UpSlide working inside the files deployed by its vendor. In return, Paul is a web application rather than a PowerPoint add-in, and publishes no certification to date, where Templafy, UpSlide, Copilot, Plus AI, Gamma, Beautiful.ai and Canva display one.

Questions from teams in evaluation

Can a tool really read my .pptx file?: The table separates three mechanisms that product pages often merge. Template ingestion reads the company file — masters, layouts, theme — in order to generate inside it: among the ten tools compared, Paul’s cell is the only one at “yes”, those of Templafy, UpSlide, Copilot, Plus AI, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva and Pitch being at “partial” and Presenti AI’s at “not published”. Import as content, by contrast, converts the .pptx into the tool’s own format: Gamma, Canva and Pitch document what they leave behind along the way (charts, SmartArt, WordArt, headers and footers, custom fonts). A brand kit, finally, is a re-entry of colours, fonts and logos inside the tool, separate from the template: Copilot, Plus AI, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Presenti AI, Canva and Pitch have one, Templafy is at “partial”, UpSlide and Paul at “no”. Reading the “ingestion of an existing .pptx template” row tool by tool is what keeps the three apart.
Brand kit and template: what is the difference?: A template is a PowerPoint file: masters, layouts, a theme and placeholders, built by your brand team and versioned like a document. A brand kit is a setting inside the tool: a palette, one or two fonts, a logo, sometimes chart styles, entered alongside the template. The two can coexist — in Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Brand Kit accepts a .pptx or .potx file and adds logos, palettes, typography, icons and a “brand voice” entered by brand managers. The practical difference is maintenance: a brand kit lives apart from the file and must be kept up to date when the brand changes, whereas an ingested template follows the file. The table keeps the two criteria separate on purpose, so that the distinction stays readable.
Where does my data go?: Published regions vary a great deal from one vendor to the next. Templafy announces Azure with a choice of region (Europe, United States, Australia, Canada) and UpSlide Azure in West Europe and France Central, with documents never stored; Pitch hosts on AWS Ireland, with AI sub-processors in the United States. Microsoft 365 Copilot falls under the EU Data Boundary for its EU customers, with model calls routed to the nearest data centres and possible overflow, Anthropic models being excluded from that boundary and disabled by default in the EU. Plus AI, Gamma and Beautiful.ai process data in the United States with no published EU option, Canva reserves the United States or EU choice for the Enterprise, Campus and District plans, and Presenti AI does not publish its region. For Paul, the application, database and storage are hosted in the EU, with language models called at third-party providers under contract; the “training on your content” row reads separately, since it describes a different commitment.
Do I need a PowerPoint add-in?: It depends on where your teams work. In this comparison, UpSlide, Templafy, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Plus AI offer an add-in; Beautiful.ai has one that inserts “Smart Slides”, without prompt-based generation inside the add-in being described. Gamma, Presenti AI, Pitch and Paul are web applications, and Canva a web, desktop and mobile editor: the file goes through an export or a download. An add-in implies an installation managed by IT and, for UpSlide, a Windows machine; a web application opens in a browser and hands back a file you then open in PowerPoint. The “works inside PowerPoint” row of the table gives the detail vendor by vendor.
How is this comparison built and kept up to date?: Every cell comes from a public vendor page — product page, pricing page, help centre, security page or data processing agreement — whose link and date of access appear below the table. The facts were recorded on 22 September 2026; where an item is not published, the cell reads “not published” instead of “no”. Prices are quoted in the currency and for the period displayed by the vendor, without conversion. Visual quality, negotiated prices and support are not assessed: they depend on your own context. If a cell looks wrong or out of date, report it from the contact page with the link to the source; the correction and the recording date are updated together.

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