Genspark AI Slides: How to Build, Edit and Export a Deck

Genspark AI Slides turns a prompt, a file or a link into a deck, and the numbers that matter fit in one line. On Standard, which runs Genspark's in-house Gen-1 model, a page starts at 10 credits, so a 10-slide deck starts at about 100 credits; on Ultra a page starts at 100 credits and the same deck at about 1,000 ^[1]. Anyone can build, present and share a deck by link. Downloading it is another matter. Export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides needs a paid plan, and that gate shapes the whole decision more than any model choice.

Our read: AI Slides is a fast way to get a structured first draft, provided you set the project up correctly before you type. Three choices lock with the project. Get one wrong and you start over, paying again for every turn. Each question, stopped run and repeated send is billed as well, so a tidy brief written once saves more credits than any setting you can pick later. The steps below follow the order you meet them in the product.

Three choices that lock before the first slide

A new project asks for three settings: Professional or Creative, Auto or Guide, and the Standard or Ultra tier. All three are fixed once the project exists, so switching any of them means opening a new project. Professional builds slides with editable text and shapes. Creative generates each slide as one image-like page with no editable boxes, which is why manual editing is switched off there. Creative mode is also paid: a Free account can switch to it and look around, but it cannot submit a prompt in it.

Auto goes straight to building, while Guide asks you questions first. Those extra turns arrive before the first slide, and each one is billed. Pick Guide only when your brief is genuinely vague. The aspect-ratio picker offers Auto Ratio, where the agent chooses, plus 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16 and 21:9. One detail trips people up. The deck and the replies follow the language of your messages, not the interface language, so write the brief in the language your audience reads.

The tier is the third choice. Standard runs Gen-1, Genspark's first in-house model, post-trained from the open-weight MiniMax M3; Gen-1 itself is not open-weight. It is the default on every plan and costs nothing extra beyond the Standard rate ^[2]. Ultra offers frontier models from other labs. Genspark says Gen-1 data is not shared with MiniMax, which has no access to user data, and that Gen-1 was not trained on user decks. In an organization that restricts model vendors, AI Slides uses only approved vendors, and Standard keeps Gen-1 only when an admin approves Genspark on that list.

Feeding it your material or a house style

AI Slides reads uploaded PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as text and builds a new deck from them. Because it reads text, a scanned document with no text layer can come through empty. Run such a file through text recognition elsewhere before uploading it. You can also hand it a URL or ask it to research the web. Pages that need a sign-in are refused, and so is a link to a web page when the task expected a file. Public pages and text-based files work best.

Skills are how you stop repeating instructions. AI Slides ships with more than 100 built-in Skills and accepts your own, with up to 10 applied to a single project. A company template, uploaded as a PowerPoint or PDF file of up to 100 MB, can be turned into a Skill so every deck starts from the house look. On Team and Enterprise plans an admin can approve a Team Skill and publish it to the whole organization. Decks can also come out of a wider agent run, which our Genspark AI playbook covers with Super Agent and Skills.

What a deck really costs in credits

Genspark sets no slide-count limit on a deck. Cost scales with pages instead: Standard from 10 credits a page, Ultra from 100. Every turn is billed. Three kinds surprise newcomers. A clarifying question counts as a turn. A run you stop yourself is still charged. A second send of the same prompt is a new turn, not a retry. In Creative mode, the image model picker lists GPT Image 2 at 5 credits an image and Nano Banana 2.1 at 26 credits an image at the default 2K slide size.

On personal Plus and Pro plans, Standard turns draw first on a weekly Free Quota that resets every 7 days, with a bar above the chat box showing what is left ^[1]. Ultra turns, Free accounts, Team seats and Enterprise seats always use credits. When the quota runs out, tasks switch to credits automatically; the Ask First setting, off by default, makes Genspark ask before it does. Genspark prints no size for the weekly quota, so watch the bar rather than planning around a number.

Credits come back automatically when a run itself fails, through a model error, an iteration cap, a provider error or garbled output, with a daily cap on such refunds. Disliking the result is not a failure. Reviewers say that reworking formatting through repeated prompts can eat many credits, which matches the billing rules above. Across Genspark, monthly plan credits do not roll over, and the Free plan's 100 daily credits stop at a lifetime cap on free credits; Is Genspark free? explains that limit.

Editing, checking and presenting

Manual Edit and Advanced Edit work in Professional mode only. Editing by hand sends nothing to the model, so it costs nothing, while every prompt that asks the agent to change a slide is a billed turn. The cheap pattern follows from that. Let the agent build structure and content, then fix wording, numbers and small layout issues yourself. Save prompts for changes that touch many slides at once, where a single turn does work that would take you far longer by hand.

Verify content checks the deck and marks each slide as Verified OK or Possible issue. It is a billed turn too, so Genspark advises running it once, on the final deck rather than after every draft. It is worth that one turn on anything that will be graded, sent to a client or quoted later. Students relying on research-built decks should read our Genspark for students guide, which covers source links and the duty to acknowledge generated content.

Presenting needs no download and no second app. The show opens fullscreen in the browser with a presenter view that holds your notes, a timer and the next slide. This works on every plan, Free included, and so does sharing the deck by link. For a talk you give yourself from a laptop, a Free account can therefore cover the whole job, as long as the build fits the Free plan's 100 daily credits: a 10-slide Standard deck starts at about 100, and every extra turn costs more. The paid gate appears only when the file has to leave Genspark.

Getting the file out: what each plan allows

Exporting itself costs no credits; it is a file operation. The entry to export is Plus from $24.99 a month billed monthly, or $19.99 a month billed annually at $239.99 a year. For a single project, monthly billing costs less up to 9 months of use, $224.91 by our arithmetic, and from the 10th month, at $249.90, it costs more than the annual $239.99. Annual wins after that. The comparison ignores refunds, tier changes and taxes. Genspark describes no free trial of Plus, so the Free plan is the way to test a deck first.

A PDF or PPTX export lands in AI Drive, while Google Slides opens in a new tab after a one-time Google authorization. The format matters for your notes. A PowerPoint export writes the verification records into the speaker notes, so whoever presents next can see them; a PDF carries no notes at all. There is no Canva or Figma integration, so the route there is a PPTX export imported by hand. For a deck that has to match a website, a poster and a logo, Genspark points to its Design tool instead.

When AI Slides earns its credits

AI Slides pays off when you know the deck you want before you start. Choose Professional for anything you will edit, keep Standard unless the audience justifies Ultra, write the brief once in the audience's language and fix small things by hand. Then run Verify on the final version and export to PPTX if notes matter. Build and rehearse on Free while the deck fits its daily credits. Upgrade only when a file must leave the browser, and on a short project the monthly bill is the cheaper path.