PowerPoint for the web vs Slides

PowerPoint for the web lets you create presentations in a browser, with changes saved automatically as you work. Multiple authors can edit a presentation at the same time, and you can open files stored on OneDrive, SharePoint, or Dropbox. It supports editing.pptx,.ppsx, and.odp files, and can open files up to 2 GB. Presentations can be downloaded as.pptx,.pdf,.odp, or JPEG images, with one image per slide. The free Microsoft PowerPoint plan costs nothing and includes web, iOS, and Android access, sharing and real-time collaboration, basic templates, fonts, icons and stickers, dictation and voice commands, and 5 GB of cloud storage. PowerPoint for the web also offers an embeddable player and restricted access control. The web editor cannot insert charts or equations; inserting video or audio files from a PC requires desktop PowerPoint.

Slides is a web presentation editor for creating, presenting and sharing decks, with AI tools that can draft content, rewrite text and refine visuals. Decks can be presented live, shared by link, exported, embedded or self-hosted. The service supports PowerPoint import and export, presenter mode, offline access, real-time collaboration, templates and brand kits. Free accounts can create public decks only. Paid customers get private decks by default, can change visibility, and can share private decks with a secret link or password; decks marked Internal are visible to team members and not others. Plan limits differ: Lite includes 1 GB of storage, one collaborator per deck and 50 AI credits monthly; Pro includes unlimited storage, three collaborators and 400 monthly AI credits; Team includes unlimited deck collaborators and 400 credits per user monthly. Team also supports SSO with Okta, Microsoft, Google and more. Developers can use a REST API, MCP server, and full HTML and CSS access. Listed integrations include Dropbox, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Forms, YouTube and Markdown. It runs in a modern browser and requires an internet connection. Free costs nothing; Lite is $5 a month billed annually, with monthly billing also available.