ChatGPT Slides (2026): Which Plans Get It, What It Costs, and the $20 Workaround

The short answer

As of October 21, 2026, ChatGPT Slides is on Pro ($100, $200 or $500 a month), Business ($20 per user per month billed annually, two-user minimum) and Enterprise, for accounts with Space access. It is not on Free, Go or Plus. It launched October 16: ChatGPT drafts a deck from a conversation, your files or an outline, your team edits it together in real time, and you present from ChatGPT or export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides.

The part the launch post skips: a $20 Plus subscriber can still get an AI-built deck two other ways, and for a lot of small teams one of them is the better buy. Below are the plan math for a five-person team, the Windows 10 catch, and which route I'd pick.

What ChatGPT Slides actually does

You open Work and ask for a presentation ("six slides on Q3 for the leadership meeting, from these notes"), or you start in Space with Create > Slide. ChatGPT builds an editable deck you open in Space. From there it works like a shared doc for slides:

• Edit by hand or by request. Text, images, shapes, tables and charts edit directly. Select one element, choose Request edits, and say what to change.
• Co-edit live. People with edit access work on the same deck at once, leave comments and @mention teammates. Comment-only access isn't available at launch, so anyone you share with can edit.
• Templates. Share an example deck and ChatGPT follows its style. Teams can build reusable templates with template-creator and share them through team Plugins.
• Present or export. Present straight from ChatGPT, or export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides on the web. The desktop app opens the deck in PowerPoint or Keynote.

Everything comes from OpenAI's help article on Slides and the October 16 release note. OpenAI doesn't publish a slide count, a deck-size cap or a separate Slides limit, so this page doesn't claim one.

Which plans get it, next to the other two routes

This is the table I wish the launch post had. Three ways to get an AI-drafted deck, by plan, from each vendor's own page read October 21, 2026:

Two things jump out. Plus is the only paid ChatGPT plan without Slides. And every Claude plan, Free included, has had Claude Slides since October 8. For every other line item on these plans, the full ladder is on ChatGPT pricing.

What a five-person team actually pays for shared decks

Say five people build the weekly sales and ops decks and want to edit the same file instead of emailing versions around. Here's the year, on list prices read today:

• ChatGPT Business, 5 seats billed annually: 5 × $20 × 12 = $1,200 a year ($1,500 billed monthly at $25). Shared Slides in Space, plus everything else Business includes and no training on your business data by default.
• ChatGPT Pro for the one deck-builder, Plus for the other four: $100 × 12 + 4 × $20 × 12 = $2,160 a year, and the four Plus users still don't have Slides or Space on their own plan. This is the combination people back into by accident, and it costs 80% more than Business.
• Five Plus seats and the PowerPoint add-in: 5 × $20 × 12 = $1,200 a year, the same money as Business. You get AI drafting inside PowerPoint, but not the shared Space deck, and it's five personal accounts, not a workspace the company controls.
• Claude Team, 5 seats billed annually: 5 × $20 × 12 = $1,200 a year, with Claude Slides, shared projects and the same no-training default.

So at five people the price question is a tie at $1,200. The real question is which workspace you want the rest of the company's work to live in. If you're already weighing the two ChatGPT tiers, ChatGPT Plus vs Business walks through the rest of the differences, and the deck feature is now one more line on the Business side.

The Windows 10 catch

One line in OpenAI's help article will hit plenty of small offices: on Windows devices without a component called MXC, the ChatGPT desktop app creates and edits PowerPoint files locally instead of collaborative Slides. Windows 10 doesn't support it at all, and Windows 11 may need an update or your IT person to switch it on. The fix is to build decks in ChatGPT on the web (or cloud mode). If half your team is still on Windows 10 laptops, test that before you promise anyone a shared deck.

When I'd use ChatGPT Slides, and when I wouldn't

• Use it if your team already has a Business workspace and the deck is a group job: the weekly pipeline review, a board update three people feed, a pitch two people polish the night before.
• Use it on Pro only if you were going to buy Pro anyway for the heavier models. Paying $100 a month for slides alone makes no sense when the add-in and Claude Slides exist. (Whether Pro earns its price on everything else is a separate call: is ChatGPT Pro worth it.)
• Skip it if your decks live in a corporate PowerPoint template with strict branding. Start in PowerPoint with the add-in, which works inside the file you already have. OpenAI's own limitations note says generated slides may not always match a preferred style perfectly.
• Skip it if you only need a first draft now and then. Claude's free tier or the PowerPoint add-in on Plus gets you there for $0 to $20.

Whichever tool, the rule from every deck I've seen go wrong is the same: AI drafts the structure and the words, a person checks every number. OpenAI says it on the Slides help page too: review the text, figures and layout before you share or present.

Try it today

If you have Business or Pro, open Work and paste this: "Build a six-slide update from these notes for the leadership meeting. Slide 1 is the one number that matters this week. One idea per slide, no more than 20 words of body text each." Then share it with one teammate and fix one slide each. You'll know in 15 minutes whether co-editing in Space beats emailing a .pptx around.

If you're setting up Business for the team and want the workspace, permissions and first workflows done properly in one go, that's the ChatGPT Business setup I do.

Sources

OpenAI, ChatGPT release notes, October 16, 2026 entry "Create and collaborate on slides in ChatGPT" and the Space entry (help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453); OpenAI Help Center, "Creating and collaborating on slides in ChatGPT" (help.openai.com/en/articles/20001605) and "ChatGPT for PowerPoint" (help.openai.com/en/articles/20001242); OpenAI plan prices, learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing; Anthropic, claude.com/pricing (Claude Slides by plan, Team seat price). All read October 21, 2026. Prices in USD. The five-person comparisons are my arithmetic from those list prices.