Last verified 1 August 2026

Skiaw vs ChatGPT

This is not a comparison between two deck tools, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. ChatGPT is a general assistant many readers already pay for, and it can produce slides — through an official add-in that runs inside Microsoft PowerPoint, and by drafting content in chat. Skiaw does one thing: it generates presentation decks and exports them as exact PowerPoint files. This page sets out where a general assistant is genuinely enough, and where a purpose-built engine earns its subscription, with every ChatGPT claim traced to OpenAI's own pages.

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Which one should you pick?

The short answer, before the evidence. The table below is there so you can check it.

Choose Skiaw if…

  • The deliverable is a designed .pptx someone will present, not an outline you style yourself.
  • Figures on the slide need a source tag a reader can check in the room.
  • You want themes and brand control rather than default formatting.
  • You want a deck from a prompt in one step, without working slide-by-slide inside PowerPoint.

Choose ChatGPT if…

  • You already pay for ChatGPT and the deck is internal, where content matters more than design.
  • You want the thinking — research, framing, speaker notes — and will build the slides yourself.
  • You live in Microsoft PowerPoint and want AI assistance inside it, on your own template.
  • You need one assistant for everything, not a tool that only makes decks.
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Skiaw vs ChatGPT, feature by feature

Every ChatGPT claim below was read from ChatGPT's own pages, and the number after it points at the exact page in the sources list.

  • Yes:Supported
  • Partly:Partly, with caveats
  • No:Not available
  • Not documented:Not publicly documented
Feature comparison between Skiaw and ChatGPT, grouped by category. Each row gives the feature, why it matters, and how each product handles it.
PowerPoint output
Generates a PowerPoint deck from a promptDecides whether you get a finished file or assistance while you build one.
Yes:

Skiaw

Native .pptx, every element is a real PowerPoint shapeSee source [1]

Text stays selectable and editable. No slide is exported as a flat image.

Partly:

ChatGPT

Via an official add-in inside PowerPoint, not from the chatSee source [5]

OpenAI's ChatGPT for PowerPoint is a sidebar add-in that creates and edits slides 'while preserving editable slide structure'. Producing a .pptx from chatgpt.com itself is not a documented feature, and the Work desktop flow states PowerPoint is not included at launch.

Font embeddingWithout embedded fonts your deck reflows on a machine that lacks them.
Yes:

Skiaw

Fonts embedded in the file itselfSee source [1]

A separate web-safe copy is produced too, because PowerPoint on the web refuses files with embedded fonts.

Not documented:

ChatGPT

Not documented on the pages we checked

The add-in works inside your PowerPoint file, so fonts are whatever your template uses; OpenAI documents nothing about embedding.

Slides match the style you asked forThe gap between what you asked for and the file is the work you do by hand afterwards.
Yes:

Skiaw

Geometry measured from the rendered page, exact to 1 EMUSee source [1]

Our own check across 914 shapes in reference and production decks: every box landed on the unit.

Partly:

ChatGPT

Follows your template where possible, by its own accountSee source [5]

OpenAI lists as a current limitation that generated or edited slides 'may not always match a preferred style perfectly'.

Exports without vendor brandingA logo that is not yours on a client deck is a problem.
Yes:

Skiaw

No Skiaw branding on exportsSee source [2]

Including the $1 trial.

Not documented:

ChatGPT

Not documented on the pages we checked

We found no OpenAI documentation of watermarking on generated presentation files, and none in our own test, but OpenAI does not state a policy either way.

Charts in the deckDetermines whether a reviewer can correct a number without redrawing the chart.
Partly:

Skiaw

Charts drawn as native vector shapesSee source [1]

Editable as shapes and pixel-faithful, but they carry no linked spreadsheet data.

Not documented:

ChatGPT

Not documented on the pages we checked

Content and research
Researches the topic before writingDecides whether the first draft contains facts or only structure.
Yes:

Skiaw

Searches the web and reads your files before writingSee source [1]

Accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT and Markdown.

Yes:

ChatGPT

Web search on every plan, including FreeSee source [7]

ChatGPT search is available to Free, Plus, Team, Edu and Enterprise users, subject to each plan's usage limits.

Source citations on the slideA number without a source is a number you will be asked about.
Yes:

Skiaw

Figures carry a source tag that resolves on the slideSee source [1]

Claims that no source supports do not get written.

Partly:

ChatGPT

Inline citations in chat answers, not on slidesSee source [7]

Search responses carry inline citations and a Sources panel in the chat. Nothing OpenAI documents places those citations on a generated slide, and in our test the slides carried none.

Start from your own documentsMost decks begin as a memo, a report or an older deck.
Yes:

Skiaw

PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT and MarkdownSee source [1]

Yes:

ChatGPT

Uploads for documents, spreadsheets and presentationsSee source [8]

Free users are limited to 3 file uploads a day. On most plans, images inside uploaded documents are discarded — only Enterprise gets visual retrieval from PDFs.

Cost of revising a deckIf edits are metered, you stop editing before the deck is finished.
Yes:

Skiaw

Conversational edits, and they cost no creditsSee source [2]

Revising a deck is free by design, you should not ration fixes.

Partly:

ChatGPT

Add-in tasks draw on the plan's agentic usage limitSee source [5]

OpenAI states a typical ChatGPT for PowerPoint task may consume between 20 and 110 credits, with Free and Go limited to restricted usage.

Design and brand
ThemesA generic template is why every AI deck looks like every other AI deck.
Yes:

Skiaw

Six hand-built themesSee source [3]

Swiss, Geometric, Editorial Brutalism, Google, Sulphur and Sketch, each a real typographic system.

No:

ChatGPT

No theme library or deck editor of its ownSee source [5]

The add-in is designed to work within your existing PowerPoint templates; chatgpt.com documents no theme gallery.

Brand controlsClose-enough brand colours are what a brand manager notices first.
Yes:

Skiaw

Brand kit from a palette you declareSee source [1]

Colours are never sampled from a screenshot, so your brand hex are the exact hex on the slide.

Partly:

ChatGPT

Your own template, plus reusable style 'Skills'See source [5]

Brand fidelity comes from the PowerPoint template you already have; the add-in's Skills can hold style rules and formatting expectations, with the style-matching caveat above.

Automated checks before you see the deckDetermines whether a broken slide reaches you or gets rebuilt first.
Yes:

Skiaw

Every deck passes automated geometry and coverage gatesSee source [1]

A slide that fails is regenerated, never silently patched.

Not documented:

ChatGPT

Not documented on the pages we checked

Platform and trust
SOC 2 Type IIA procurement gate at most mid-size and larger companies.
No:

Skiaw

No SOC 2 attestation today

Yes:

ChatGPT

SOC 2 Type 2 report, plus ISO 27001 and related certificationsSee source [9]

Your content excluded from model training by defaultClient decks and fundraising numbers are exactly the content people worry about.
Yes:

Skiaw

Deck content is not used to train modelsSee source [1]

Partly:

ChatGPT

Consumer plans train on your content unless you opt outSee source [10]

OpenAI states it may use consumer-plan content to train models unless you opt out via Data Controls. Business and Enterprise plans do not train on your data by default.

Plans and access
Free tierDecides whether you can evaluate the tool before paying.
No:

Skiaw

No free tierSee source [2]

A $1 trial for 7 days instead.

Yes:

ChatGPT

Genuinely free, with limited model access and daily capsSee source [4]

Limited GPT-5.5 Instant access, limited uploads (3 files a day) and limited usage of tools like the PowerPoint add-in.

Entry paid planThe number you will actually pay every month.
Yes:

Skiaw

$20/month Pro, or $16/month billed yearlySee source [2]

700 credits a month, roughly 35 to 70 decks.

Yes:

ChatGPT

€8/month Go; €23/month Plus for advanced reasoningSee source [4]

Prices as shown for European billing. OpenAI notes the Go plan may include advertising.

Can you buy it today?The most basic question, and the one comparison pages usually skip.
Partly:

Skiaw

Waitlist, subscriptions open shortlySee source [2]

You can reserve a plan today; you cannot yet pay for one.

Yes:

ChatGPT

Self-serve signup, free tier with no cardSee source [4]

Where the two actually diverge

Four differences that a table row is too small to explain properly.

01

What “ChatGPT makes slides” actually covers

Ask around and everyone will tell you ChatGPT can make presentations. What OpenAI actually ships is more specific. The official route is ChatGPT for PowerPoint, a sidebar add-in installed from the Microsoft Marketplace that creates and edits slides inside PowerPoint itself, preserving editable slide structure and working within your existing template where it can. It is a real product with real strengths — you keep your file, your template and your editor.

Outside the add-in, the picture thins out. ChatGPT's Work desktop flow can create documents and spreadsheets, but OpenAI states PowerPoint is not included in that flow at launch; native creation is documented for Google Slides via the Workspace connector. Generating a .pptx file directly from a chat on chatgpt.com is not a documented feature at all — when it happens, it happens through code execution, with no published commitments about the result.

Skiaw is the inverse shape: nothing but decks. The prompt goes in, research and layout happen inside the engine, and what comes out is a .pptx in which every element is a real PowerPoint shape placed by measured geometry. Which shape is right depends on where your deck lives: if it lives in PowerPoint and you want help while you build, the add-in is genuinely good; if you want the deck to arrive finished, that is the job Skiaw was built for.

02

Sourcing: strong in the chat, absent on the slide

Credit where due: ChatGPT's web search is available on every plan and its answers carry inline citations with a sources panel, which is more sourcing than most deck tools offer anywhere. If you interrogate it about your market in chat, you can follow every claim back.

The gap opens at the slide boundary. Nothing OpenAI documents carries those citations onto a generated slide, and in our own test the slides arrived without any. The knowledge of where a number came from stays in the conversation; the deck that leaves for the meeting does not carry it.

Skiaw's citations survive the export because they are part of the deck's data model: every figure in the brief carries a tag that resolves to its source, and the tag renders on the slide itself. When someone in the room asks where the number came from, the answer is on screen, not in a chat log on your laptop.

03

The honest pricing question: you may already pay for ChatGPT

Skiaw cannot win a price comparison against a tool you already subscribe to, and this page will not pretend otherwise. If you have ChatGPT Plus, deck assistance is effectively included: the PowerPoint add-in is available on every plan, metered against your plan's agentic usage limit at what OpenAI describes as 20 to 110 credits for a typical task.

The real cost is the work that remains. The add-in helps you build a deck inside PowerPoint; the research, the structure, the design system and the final polish are still your hours. Skiaw's $20 a month is not buying slide assistance, it is buying the finished file — researched, cited, laid out in a designed theme and verified before you see it.

One caveat on the euro figures below: OpenAI's pricing page localises by region, and the prices we could verify were the European ones. Check the page in your own currency before comparing.

What each one costs

Read from each company's own pricing page on the date shown. Check both before you buy, prices change and vary by region.

Skiaw

$1 Trial

$1

7 days

  • 3 premium presentations
  • PPTX export
  • No watermark
  • Credit card required

Pro

$20

Per month

  • 35-70 presentations/month
  • Unlimited edits
  • Brand kits
  • PPTX + PDF export
  • All themes
  • Priority generation

Team

$49

Per month, includes 2 seats · $20 per extra seat

  • Everything in Pro
  • Shared workspace
  • Collaboration
  • Admin controls
  • Usage analytics

Yearly billing lowers Pro to $16 and Team to $39 per month. Conversational edits cost no credits. Subscriptions are still opening, see full pricing.

ChatGPT

Free

€0

  • Limited GPT-5.5 Instant access and daily usage caps
  • Web search with citations included
  • 3 file uploads a day
  • Limited access to the PowerPoint add-in

Go

€8 / month

  • Extended messages, uploads and image generation
  • OpenAI notes this plan may include advertising

Plus

€23 / month

  • Advanced reasoning models
  • Projects, scheduled tasks and custom GPTs
  • PowerPoint add-in usage within the plan's agentic limit

Pro

From €103 / month

  • 5–20× more usage and the most capable reasoning models
  • Unlimited image generation within OpenAI's guardrails

Business

€26 / user / month

€21 / user / month billed annually

  • No training on your business data by default
  • SOC 2 Type II listed among security features

OpenAI's pricing page localises by region. These are the figures it showed for European billing on 4 August 2026, in euros — check chatgpt.com/pricing in your own currency before comparing directly with Skiaw's dollar prices.

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Where ChatGPT is the better choice

We built Skiaw and we would still send you elsewhere for these. If one of them is your requirement, ChatGPT is the better buy today.

  • You probably already have it. For many readers the marginal cost of ChatGPT-made slides is zero, and Skiaw is a second subscription.
  • It is a general assistant. The research, framing and speaker notes around a deck are work ChatGPT does well, and Skiaw does not do at all.
  • Web search with inline citations is available on every plan, including Free — in the chat, that is better sourcing than most deck tools offer.
  • The official PowerPoint add-in works inside your own file and template, which is exactly right if your organisation lives in PowerPoint.
  • OpenAI publishes a SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO 27001-family certifications. Skiaw has no such attestations today.
  • You can sign up right now, free, with no card. Skiaw's subscriptions are still opening.

Frequently asked questions

The questions people ask before switching between ChatGPT and Skiaw.

Can ChatGPT make PowerPoint presentations?

Yes, with a caveat about how. The official route is ChatGPT for PowerPoint, a sidebar add-in that runs inside Microsoft PowerPoint and creates or edits slides while preserving editable structure, available on every plan within usage limits. Generating a .pptx directly from a chat on chatgpt.com is not a documented feature; OpenAI's Work desktop flow creates documents and spreadsheets but states PowerPoint is not included at launch.

Is Skiaw a replacement for ChatGPT?

No, and it does not try to be. ChatGPT is a general assistant; Skiaw only generates presentation decks and exports them as PowerPoint files. Many Skiaw users keep a ChatGPT subscription for everything that is not a deck. The honest question is narrower: when a deck matters, is a general assistant enough?

Does ChatGPT cite sources on slides?

In the chat, yes — search-backed answers carry inline citations and a sources panel, on every plan. On generated slides, no: nothing OpenAI documents carries citations onto a slide, and in our test the slides had none. Skiaw renders a source tag on the slide itself for every researched figure.

Which is cheaper?

ChatGPT, in most readings. It has a real free tier, Go is €8 a month and Plus €23 for European billing, and if you already subscribe the slides cost you nothing extra beyond usage limits. Skiaw's Pro plan is $20 a month, or $16 billed yearly, for roughly 35 to 70 decks. You are paying for a finished, cited, designed file rather than assistance — whether that is worth a second subscription depends on how many decks you make and who sees them.

Does ChatGPT use my deck content to train its models?

On consumer plans, OpenAI states it may use your content for training unless you opt out in Data Controls; Business and Enterprise plans exclude training by default. Skiaw does not use your deck content to train models on any plan.

Can I sign up for Skiaw today?

Subscriptions are still opening. You can reserve a plan and we will email you when checkout goes live. ChatGPT is available now, free, with no card required.

Sources

Numbered to match the references in the table above. ChatGPT's own pages are the only source we used for ChatGPT claims, no review sites, no roundups.

  1. [1]
    Skiaw engine notes

    How decks are rendered and exported: measured-geometry layout, font embedding, verification gates, research and citation tagging.

    Last checked 1 August 2026

  2. [2]
    Skiaw pricing

    Plans, credit allowance and what the $1 trial includes.

    Last checked 1 August 2026

  3. [3]
    Skiaw themes

    The six themes and their design systems.

    Last checked 1 August 2026

  4. [4]
    OpenAI, ChatGPT plans and pricing

    Plan names and euro prices for Free, Go, Plus, Pro and Business, the advertising note on Go, feature lists per plan, and the SOC 2 Type II mention under Business.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  5. [5]
    OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT for PowerPoint

    That the add-in runs inside PowerPoint preserving editable slide structure, plan availability, the 20–110 credits per typical task figure, Skills, and the stated limitation that slides may not always match a preferred style.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  6. [6]
    OpenAI Help Center, Creating documents with ChatGPT Work

    That the Work desktop flow creates documents and spreadsheets, that PowerPoint is not included at launch, and that native slide creation is documented for Google Slides via the Workspace connector.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  7. [7]
    OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT search

    Search availability on every plan including Free, inline citations, the Sources panel, and that search usage counts against plan limits.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  8. [8]
    OpenAI Help Center, File uploads FAQ

    Supported file types including presentations, the 3-uploads-a-day free limit, size limits, and that non-Enterprise plans discard images inside uploaded documents.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  9. [9]
    OpenAI Trust Portal

    The SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 certifications.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

  10. [10]
    OpenAI Help Center, How your data is used to improve model performance

    That consumer-plan content may be used for training unless the user opts out, and that business plans do not train on user data by default.

    Last checked 4 August 2026

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