Gamma vs Marq Comparison 2026
Gamma turns a prompt or a document into a deck, free for 400 credits and then $9 a seat a month billed annually. Marq locks the logo and colours on a template so somebody outside the design team can fill in the rest without breaking the brand, at $10 a month per user billed yearly with no free tier. The two solve different problems at almost the same price: Gamma writes the first draft, Marq stops that draft from going off-brand once other people are allowed to touch it.
At a glance
- Gamma starts cheaper, at $9.
- Only Gamma has a free tier.
Side by side
Gamma | Marq | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $10 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial (they differ) | None | 7 days |
Gamma
Decks, docs and sites generated from a prompt
Gamma turns a prompt or a pasted document into a deck, a page or a small website, then lets you edit the result the way you would edit a document rather than by dragging boxes around a slide. Everything it makes is responsive, so the same file reads properly on a phone. Credits meter the generation and the free plan starts you with four hundred of them. Export goes out to PDF, PowerPoint and Google Slides.
Our note
Gamma is the fastest route from a rough idea to something presentable, and the credit system is the thing to watch rather than the seat price. Canva does more if you want to art-direct the result; this wins when the deck is a means to an end.
Only on this side
- Covers website builders
Marq
Brand templates with the logo locked down
Marq exists for the problem where somebody outside the design team has to make a flyer and must not be able to move the logo. Templates lock whichever parts carry the brand and leave the rest editable, so a franchise or a chapter can localise a poster without redrawing it. The product came out of Lucidpress and kept that job when it changed name.
Why people weigh these two
- Marq instead of Gamma
- Marq locks the logo and colors into every template so brand consistency does not depend on a prompt, at $10 with no free tier.
- Gamma instead of Marq
- Gamma generates decks, docs and sites from a prompt at $9 with a free tier, quicker when the template does not exist yet.
Which one should you pick
Pick Gamma if the job is generating a deck, a page or a one-pager from scratch and you are not a designer yourself. Free gives 400 credits to test it, and Plus is $9 a seat a month billed annually for 1,000 monthly credits and branding removed. It has no template-locking feature: nothing stops a teammate moving your logo once they have edit access.
Pick Marq if other people, a franchise, a chapter, a sales team, need to produce branded flyers without being able to move the logo or colours. It is $10 a month per user billed yearly with no free tier, a dollar more than Gamma's entry price, and that dollar buys the lock Gamma does not have. A solo creator with nobody to lock templates against should use Gamma or Canva instead.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- Gamma, by a dollar: $9 a seat a month billed annually against Marq's $10 a month per user billed yearly. Gamma also has a free tier with 400 credits; Marq has none, only a seven-day trial.
- Does Gamma stop somebody from moving the logo on a template?
- No, Gamma's listing does not describe a template-locking feature. Marq's entire product exists for that problem: locking the brand elements of a template while leaving the rest editable.
- Can Marq generate a deck from a prompt the way Gamma does?
- No. Marq's listing describes editing existing templates in the browser, not generating new content from a prompt or a pasted document. Gamma is built specifically to turn a prompt or a document into a first draft.
- Who has no use for Marq?
- A solo creator, per its own listing: with nobody else touching your templates, there is nothing to lock against, and Canva or Gamma covers the same ground for less or for free.
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