ChatGPT Slides started rolling out on 16 October 2026, and it is not available on the plan most solo marketers pay for. OpenAI’s release note puts it on Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts with Space access. Free and Plus get nothing.
You describe the deck in a Work conversation, or you open Space and select Create, then Slide. Either route produces an editable presentation that opens in Space rather than a file that lands in your downloads folder. You can build it from an existing conversation, attach source files, start blank, or pick a template.
Editing is direct. You change text, images, shapes, tables and charts in place, or you select one element, choose Request edits, and describe what you want instead. OpenAI’s help page for Slides gives the example prompt “Create a six-slide project update from these notes”, and it says you can hand ChatGPT an example deck to guide style and layout, or build your own templates with template-creator and share them with a team inside a Plugin.
On the web you present straight from ChatGPT or export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides. On the desktop app you can open the deck in PowerPoint or Keynote if they are installed. The caveat is Windows: without the MXC component the desktop app creates a PowerPoint file instead of a collaborative deck, and Windows 10 does not support that component at all. OpenAI’s own advice there is to use cloud mode or the web.
The editor is unremarkable. The eligibility list is the news. OpenAI’s Pro tiers page prices Pro at $100, $200 and $500 a month, so the cheapest route to ChatGPT Slides as an individual is $100 a month. Business and Enterprise reach it too, with Space access.
If you are on Plus, the honest answer is that this launch does not reach you, and nothing OpenAI has published says when it will. That is worth noticing as a pattern rather than a one-off, because free AI plans and paid tiers at every vendor moved three times in one week earlier this month.
There is a smaller detail in the documentation that tells you how early this is. OpenAI’s getting-started page for Space, checked on 20 October, still reads “Slides and Sheets are coming soon”, four days after the release note said Slides was rolling out. The same page says Space itself is “coming soon for Enterprise and Business workspaces with data residency in Canada or the United Arab Emirates”, so some paying businesses do not yet have the container the feature sits inside.
You are not locked out of making presentations with ChatGPT. You are locked out of making them in ChatGPT. The ChatGPT for PowerPoint add-in is a sidebar that runs inside Microsoft PowerPoint, installed from the Microsoft Marketplace, and OpenAI’s page lists it for Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu and K-12. Free and Go get limited usage, and Plus, Pro and Business usage counts against an agentic usage limit.
It builds a first draft from source material, adds or revises slides in a deck that already exists, answers questions about a deck’s story and structure, and adapts one deck for a different audience. For most content workflows that is the part that takes the time.
The two are not the same product, and OpenAI says so in its own limits. Slides the add-in generates may not match a preferred template exactly. Advanced editing, including charts, shapes, formatting and slide management, “may be limited or still in development”. The add-in can make mistakes including deleting content, which is why OpenAI recommends duplicating the file before you let it work.
One line on that page is worth reading twice before you install it: Microsoft’s Marketplace terms allow Microsoft to read your PowerPoint file content. If the deck carries a client’s numbers, that is a decision rather than a detail.
A deck is a Space page, so the Space rules govern it, and those rules are more consequential than the editor. You choose per person whether they can view or edit. Files uploaded to a page follow that page’s permissions. Adding a link to a file stored somewhere else does not give readers permission to open it, which is a useful thing to know before you assume a linked spreadsheet is private.
Two lines in OpenAI’s Space sharing and data page matter if you handle anyone else’s work. First, if Memory is on, the personal context ChatGPT draws into a page becomes readable by anyone who can view that page, so a deck is not a safe place to let Memory fill in the gaps. Second, on a personal account, when somebody else’s agent works on a page you shared, that agent follows its owner’s training setting, not yours. OpenAI’s wording is blunt: “Your own training setting does not control theirs.” On Business and Enterprise, OpenAI does not train on business and enterprise data by default.
What this does not mean: sharing a page does not hand over your private chats or your Memory itself. It hands over what ended up on the page.
No. OpenAI’s help page lists Slides on Pro, Business and Enterprise plans with Space access, and the 16 October release note says the same. OpenAI has published no date for other plans, and the Space getting-started page still describes Slides as coming soon.
Yes. On the web you can export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides, and you can open the deck in PowerPoint or Keynote if either is installed. OpenAI recommends checking the content and formatting of the exported file, particularly on charts and unusual fonts.
Not yet. Comment-only access is not available at launch, so anyone you want feedback from needs edit access to the deck. On a client project that means the reviewer can change the slides, not just annotate them.
No. The mobile apps can read, share and navigate Space pages but cannot edit them, so building and revising a deck is a desktop job for now.
For most people reading this, the practical change this week is nothing, because ChatGPT Slides sits behind a $100 plan and the documentation has not finished catching up with the rollout. The part worth acting on is the add-in, which has been sitting on the plan you already pay for and does the drafting work that costs you the afternoon.
If you are already on Business, settle the Memory and sharing question before the first client deck goes out, not after. Getting that right is one of the cheaper ways to compete with bigger brands without buying another subscription.
This is the kind of thing we work on with clients at Social Lady. If you want a second opinion on which AI subscriptions are actually earning their keep, get in touch.
