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ReportRoom vs Gamma
Gamma is the tier-1 AI presentation maker: type a prompt and it generates a polished deck, document, website, or social post — with AI images, themes, and a genuinely excellent editor to refine the result. ReportRoom sits on the other side of that workflow: it doesn't generate anything. Your content already exists — you wrote it, or your AI agent did — and one API/MCP call turns it into a designed, tracked live URL. The two overlap where a finished deck needs to be shared and measured, and that's where the differences get concrete: what analytics cost, what the API is for, and what a "free plan" actually includes. This page walks through all of it, including the places Gamma is clearly the better pick.
- Pick ReportRoom to publish and track content that already exists — flat $8/mo Pro, API/MCP on every plan including Free.
- Pick Gamma to have AI create the deck for you — best-in-class generation, real editor, PPTX interop.
- Biggest gap: Gamma's analytics and API keys start at Pro ($18/seat/mo), and every generation burns AI credits; ReportRoom's publishing pipe costs neither.
Choose ReportRoom if…
- Your content already exists (or an agent writes it) — ReportRoom renders your Markdown/HTML exactly as authored; Gamma's pipeline runs everything through AI generation, which shapes the output and charges credits per call.
- API/MCP on every plan including Free — Gamma's API keys require Pro ($18/seat/mo), and its free tier's 400 starter credits never refill.
- You want view analytics from $0 — daily tracked views on ReportRoom's free plan; Gamma's full analytics require Pro.
- Flat pricing: Pro is $8/mo (annual) total, not per seat — Gamma charges per seat on every paid tier.
- You need data rooms — gated per-viewer access with per-viewer analytics at $49/mo (annual); Gamma has no comparable feature.
Choose Gamma if…
- You want AI to build the deck: prompt in, designed 10–100-card presentation out, with generated images, themes, and an editor to refine it. That's Gamma's core product, and ReportRoom deliberately doesn't do it — ReportRoom publishes what you send.
- Deeper engagement analytics on shared decks: per-card view time, viewer reach per card, and per-viewer engagement (named when viewers have Gamma accounts) — from the Pro tier, with API endpoints to query it.
- PowerPoint interop and presenting: import PDF/PPTX, export to PDF, PPTX, PNG, and Google Slides, present from Gamma itself, plus a mobile app. ReportRoom exports PDF but doesn't speak PPTX.
- You also want AI websites, social posts, and images — multi-page sites on custom domains (10 on Pro, 100 on Ultra) and bundled monthly AI credits, all in one subscription.
Side by side
| Feature | ReportRoom | Gamma |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes — 50 live documents, analytics + API/MCP included | Yes — 400 one-time AI credits (no monthly refill), up to 10 slides per prompt, Gamma branding |
| What the product does | Publishes your finished Markdown/HTML as a designed, tracked live page | Generates presentations, docs, sites, and social posts from a prompt, with an editor |
| Paid entry (annual billing) | $8/mo flat (Pro, 100 documents, badge removed) | $9/seat/mo (Plus — removes branding; no analytics or API keys) |
| Pricing model | Flat on Free/Pro/Business; per-seat only on Team | Per seat on every paid tier |
| Where view analytics start | Every plan, incl. Free — daily view counts | Full analytics require Pro ($18/seat/mo annual) |
| Analytics depth | Real page views (cookieless), daily rollups, agent-readable summary; per-viewer analytics in data rooms | Per-card view time, % views per card, unique viewers (30 days), per-viewer engagement — named for Gamma-account viewers, anonymous otherwise |
| API — what it's for | Publishing: send content, get a live tracked URL back in one call; no credits charged | Generation: POST /generations creates a gamma with AI, async + polling; every call charges credits (1–3/card + 2–125/image) |
| API availability | Every plan, incl. Free | API keys on Pro, Ultra, Teams, Business |
| AI-agent (MCP) support | Native MCP server, 23 tools, all plans | ChatGPT/Claude connectors on all plans — generations via connectors charge the same credits |
| Custom domains | Team and up ($15/seat/mo annual) | Pro and up — up to 10 domains; 100 on Ultra |
| Branding removal | From Pro ($8/mo annual); free tier carries a badge | From Plus ($9/seat/mo annual) |
| Data rooms | Business $49/mo annual, 3 seats — per-viewer access + analytics, NDA click-through | No |
| File interop | PDF export (credit-metered); no PPTX | Import PDF/PPTX; export PDF, PPTX, PNG, Google Slides |
What each product actually is
Gamma is an AI content creator: you describe what you want, and it writes, designs, and illustrates a presentation, document, website, or social post — up to 100 slides per prompt on paid tiers — which you then polish in a first-rate browser editor. The whole machine is metered by AI credits: paid tiers bundle a monthly allowance (1,000 on Plus, 4,000 on Pro, 20,000 on Ultra; unused credits roll over up to 2× the monthly amount), and the free plan gets 400 starter credits that never refill.
ReportRoom is a publishing pipe: Markdown or HTML in, a designed live page out — deterministically. What you send is what renders, with the design system applied server-side, a stable URL that updates in place, and cookieless view analytics on every plan. There is no generation step, so there is nothing to meter: publishing costs no credits on any plan, and the API isn't a tier feature — it's the front door, on Free.
Analytics, in detail
This comparison is genuinely competitive, and the honest summary is: Gamma's analytics go deeper per card and per viewer; ReportRoom's start at $0 and are built to be consumed by software.
Gamma tracks relative time spent per card, the percentage of views each card gets, how far viewers scroll, and unique viewers over the last 30 days — with per-viewer engagement detail, named when the viewer has a Gamma account (anonymous or incognito viewers show as "Anonymous Viewer"). It's real engagement depth, and the API exposes it too (doc-level, per-card, and per-viewer endpoints). The catch is the gate: full analytics require the Pro plan at $18/seat/mo (annual) — Free and Plus users get limited or no access, per Gamma's own help center — and the in-app dashboard has no export.
ReportRoom counts real page views (cookieless, asset requests excluded) on every plan including Free, rolls them up daily, and serves them over GET /v1/documents/:slug/analytics and the MCP get_analytics tool — including a plain-language summary written for agents to relay ("the Q3 deck got 47 views this week, peaking Tuesday"). Per-viewer identity lives where identity is authenticated rather than inferred: in data rooms (Business), where viewers are admitted by email grant or passcode and every open is attributed.
Publish in one call
ReportRoom's entire publishing workflow is one HTTP call. Send Markdown (or your own HTML) and get back a live, tracked URL:
curl -X POST https://api.reportroom.io/v1/documents \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rr_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"type": "report",
"title": "Q3 Client Report",
"content_format": "markdown",
"content": "# Q3 results\n\nOrganic traffic +34%…"
}'
# → { "url": "https://yourhandle.reportroom.io/q3-client-report", … }Re-publishing the same slug updates the document behind the same link. For AI agents it's even shorter — connect the MCP server once and publishing becomes a sentence:
claude mcp add --transport http reportroom https://mcp.reportroom.io/mcpAfter that, "publish this analysis as a report and tell me tomorrow who read it" is a complete workflow: the agent calls publish, gets the URL, and later calls get_analytics, which returns daily view counts plus a plain-language summary written for agents to relay. 23 MCP tools cover publishing, design lint, images, data rooms, and analytics — publishing, images, and analytics work on every plan, including Free; the data-room tools require the Business plan.
Generation vs publication: the credits math
Both products have a metered AI layer — the difference is whether the core workflow sits inside it.
- On Gamma, creating IS the metered action. Every generation — app, API, or connector — charges credits: 1–3 per card for text plus 2–125 per image depending on the model tier. Gamma's own illustrative math: a 10-card deck with 5 basic-model images runs ~20–60 credits; a 20-card doc with premium images, ~320–1,070. Pro's 4,000 monthly credits are generous for a person; a pipeline that generates daily does the arithmetic differently.
- On ReportRoom, publishing is never metered. Rendering your Markdown/HTML to a live tracked page costs no credits on any plan, in any volume your plan's document count allows. Credits exist only for optional AI features (generation assists, PDF export) and are pay-as-you-go on every tier — never bundled, never required to publish.
- The agent angle: if your agent already writes the content (Claude drafting a client report, a pipeline rendering weekly metrics), paying per-generation for a second AI to rewrite it is a tax on work that's already done. Gamma's credits buy real value when the AI authorship is the point.
What switching actually involves
- Decks you've already generated on Gamma stay on Gamma — links keep working there, and there's no import path that preserves a Gamma's generated layout. The content ports the honest way: export or paste the source text, or let an agent re-draft it as Markdown, and re-publish. For most decks that's minutes, and the result is a live page that updates in place.
- New documents — if a human writes the content, paste Markdown in the dashboard; if an agent writes it, publishing is one API/MCP call from the free plan. No credits, no polling: the URL comes back in the response.
- What you lose: prompt-to-deck generation, AI images, PPTX export, and Gamma's editor. If AI authorship is central to your workflow, keep Gamma for creating — some teams generate in Gamma and publish the finished content through ReportRoom, and that split is legitimate.
- What you gain: analytics from $0 instead of $18/seat, a flat-priced publishing pipe with no per-generation meter, and data rooms when a deal needs gated, per-viewer-tracked access.
Pricing
Gamma's published pricing (checked August 2026, screenshot above): on the Individual tab, annual billing — Free $0 with 400 one-time credits and up to 10 slides per prompt; Plus $9/seat/mo ($108/yr) with 1,000 monthly credits and branding removal; Pro $18/seat/mo ($216/yr) with 4,000 credits, detailed analytics, API access, custom branding, and up to 10 custom domains; Ultra $90/seat/mo ($1,080/yr) with 20,000 credits and the most advanced AI models. Monthly billing runs $12/$25/$100. The Business tab adds Team at $20/seat/mo and Business at $40/seat/mo (annual) with per-seat credit pools and SSO, plus a custom-priced Enterprise tier. ReportRoom: Free $0 with 50 live documents, view analytics, and the API/MCP; Pro $9.99/mo ($8/mo billed annually) with 100 documents and no badge; Team $19/seat/mo ($15 annual) with unlimited documents and custom domains; Business $59/mo ($49 annual) with data rooms and 3 seats included. The structural difference: Gamma prices AI creation per seat with a credit meter on every generation; ReportRoom prices the publishing pipe flat, and AI is optional pay-as-you-go on every tier.
Cost scenarios, annual billing
| Scenario | ReportRoom | Gamma |
|---|---|---|
| Just starting — publish and track a few decks | Free — $0 (analytics + API included) | Free generates them, but analytics require Pro: $216/yr |
| Freelancer: badge-free, tracked, up to 100 live documents | Pro: $96/yr ($8/mo annual) | Plus removes branding ($108/yr); analytics + API need Pro: $216/yr |
| 3-person team publishing on a custom domain | Team: $540/yr ($15/seat/mo annual) | Pro ×3 seats: $648/yr — or Team ×3: $720/yr |
| Publishing from scripts or an AI agent | Any plan — from $0; publishing charges no credits | Pro: $216/yr + AI credits per generation (~20–60 for a 10-card deck) |
FAQ
Is there a free Gamma alternative for publishing and tracking decks?
Yes. ReportRoom's Free plan hosts 50 live tracked web documents at $0 with view analytics and the API/MCP included. Gamma's free plan is real but creation-limited: 400 one-time AI credits that never refill, up to 10 slides per prompt, Gamma branding, and no full analytics.
How much does Gamma cost in 2026?
Per its pricing page in August 2026 (annual billing): Free $0, Plus $9/seat/mo, Pro $18/seat/mo, Ultra $90/seat/mo — $12/$25/$100 on monthly billing. The Business tab lists Team at $20/seat/mo and Business at $40/seat/mo, plus custom-priced Enterprise. Detailed analytics, API access, and custom domains sit on Pro and above.
Does Gamma have an API?
Yes — a generation API: POST /v1.0/generations creates a presentation, document, site, or social post from text (asynchronously, with polling), and there are endpoints for themes, folders, exports, and analytics. API keys require Pro or above, and every generation charges AI credits — roughly 1–3 per card plus 2–125 per image. ReportRoom's API publishes rather than generates: it renders your finished content to a tracked URL in one synchronous call, on every plan, with no credits charged.
What's the main difference between ReportRoom and Gamma?
Gamma creates content with AI — prompt in, designed deck out, refined in its editor. ReportRoom publishes content that already exists — your Markdown or HTML becomes a designed, tracked live page, deterministically. If the deck doesn't exist yet and AI should write it, Gamma; if you or your agent already wrote it, ReportRoom is the missing publishing step.
Does ReportRoom generate presentations with AI like Gamma?
No — and that's deliberate. ReportRoom renders exactly what you send; the authoring intelligence is whatever wrote the content, usually you or your AI agent. Optional AI assists are pay-as-you-go credits on every tier, never bundled and never required. If you want built-in prompt-to-deck generation with AI images, Gamma is the better tool.
Whose analytics are better?
Different strengths. Gamma goes deeper on engagement: per-card view time, viewer reach, and per-viewer detail (named for Gamma-account viewers), from the Pro plan, with analytics API endpoints. ReportRoom starts at $0: daily view counts on every plan, an agent-readable summary over API/MCP, and per-viewer analytics inside authenticated data rooms — where knowing who read what has teeth.
Can I use my own domain?
On Gamma, custom domains start at Pro ($18/seat/mo annual, up to 10 domains; 100 on Ultra) — a genuinely competitive offer. On ReportRoom, custom domains come with Team ($15/seat/mo annual), and every plan including Free gets a yourhandle.reportroom.io subdomain.
Does Gamma have data rooms?
No. ReportRoom's Business plan ($49/mo annual, 3 seats included) adds data rooms with per-viewer email or passcode access, revocable grants, NDA click-through, and per-viewer analytics — the setup for sharing a deal folder and knowing exactly who opened what.
Publish something beautiful in the next five minutes
50 tracked documents free, no card. Your first live URL is one call — or one paste — away.