Black Friday AI deals in November 2026: what twelve vendors have actually published, checked on their own pages on 1 November

Disclosure: NOXI publishes this page and is one of the twelve plans scored. That's why the rules, weights and the source of every cell are printed, along with every rule where another tool scores higher.

The useful answer this week is a negative one. We opened eleven vendor Black Friday URLs this morning, one for every plan here that has a price. One returned a live page, and it carries a date range and no prices. Eight returned a 404 or a 403, Notion's sits behind an auth wall, Prezi's behind a sign in. Everything else being sold as a November bargain is standing discounting that was already there in October.

So this page prints what each vendor's own page says today, with the status code we got, and scores the twelve plans on six rules that matter in a budget month: the offer, the price, the standing discounts, the free plan, the export terms and the refund route. NOXI finishes ninth with 50 points, and the reason is in the table.

Black Friday AI deals: twelve plans at a glance

On six documented rules checked on 1 November 2026, Microsoft 365 scores 95, Visme 68 and Gamma 63, and 25 of the 27 points between first and second come from that one published window.

Reference row, not ranked. Claude scores 36 on the same six rules: no Black Friday page, Pro at $17 a month with the annual discount or $20 billed monthly, a cancellation route, and consumer terms that say "all payments are non-refundable".

Where NOXI sits. NOXI finishes ninth of twelve with 50 points. Three of the six rules reward what a vendor has published for a paid plan, and there is no paid plan here, so those three stay at zero: nothing to put on offer, no price to discount, no subscription to cancel. The other three are full marks. Microsoft 365 is first because it is the only vendor that has published anything at all about November.

Who should pick what in a budget November

Six common situations point six different ways, each for one documented reason.

• If you want the one window anybody has published → Microsoft 365, whose store page prints "The Microsoft Black Friday sale for 2026 runs from November 19th to November 28th." and, in the same FAQ, "We haven't shared our Black Friday deals just yet" [1].
• If you want to pay less today instead of waiting → Visme, because its pricing page prints "Save 50%" and both its cancellation and its refund terms are public [10].
• If your deck tool has to cost nothing this month → NOXI, because a free account comes with 1,000 credits a month, about 25 for a deck, no card, and an editable .pptx [14].
• If you are a student → Beautiful.ai, because it offers "a year free for students with valid .edu emails", and Notion's Plus plan with a one member limit "is free for students and educators" [11] [7].
• If you are a school or a nonprofit → Canva, because "K-12 educational organizations and not-for-profits can enjoy most premium features for free", while Microsoft says schools "can get Office 365 A1 for free" [3].
• If you think you might change your mind → ChatGPT or Prezi, because each publishes cancellation and refund terms a logged out visitor can read [5] [9].

Key numbers

How we checked, and what counts as evidence

Only a vendor's own page counts here, and twelve of them were opened on 1 November 2026.

What does not count. No coupon blog, no affiliate page, no 2025 offer. If a vendor has not published a price, a percentage or a date, this page prints none. That rules out most of what currently ranks for these searches, which is the point.

Changed recently (vendor pages, checked 1 November 2026). Every Black Friday URL in the sweep was re-opened today and none publishes an offer; Prezi's is still behind a sign in. Canva's pricing page no longer prints a number for the free plan's monthly AI allowance, and on 29 October Canva gated its new in house model to paid Pro. OpenAI refreshed four help articles four days ago, and ChatGPT Slides is still "rolling out to eligible accounts".

The six rules, printed in full

Four readings applied the same way to every row

• "The job" in D2 is what the vendor sells its AI for, on the lowest plan that documents it. Where no USD figure is confirmable on the vendor's own page, the row says which currency the page served.
• D1 at 25 needs an offer, a window, or both, published with dates. Microsoft is the only row that clears it, and it clears it with a window and no offers inside it.
• D6 is scored on pages a logged out visitor can open. Behind a sign in scores 0, not "unknown".
• Nothing here is a discount or a percentage off that a vendor has not published itself.

What each Black Friday page returned on 1 November

Ten of the eleven vendor Black Friday URLs gave a logged out visitor nothing to read; the eleventh served a window with no prices in it.

Microsoft's page says both halves out loud. The window: "The Microsoft Black Friday sale for 2026 runs from November 19th to November 28th." The commitment: "We haven't shared our Black Friday deals just yet" and "You may find discounts on subscriptions for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Business plans." A schedule, not a price [1].

Its returns policy does carry numbers. Physical products bought between 1 October and 2 December 2026 can be returned until 31 January 2027 for a full refund. Digital goods "are not eligible for a return unless applicable law states that you're eligible for a refund", which matters if your basket is a subscription rather than a laptop [1].

One date is deliberately missing from that strip. No official page we could open states the literal calendar date of Black Friday or Cyber Monday 2026, so this page uses Microsoft's window and no other. The dates on deal blogs are their arithmetic, not a vendor's.

Every cell and its arithmetic

Microsoft 365's 95 comes from a single cell nobody else earns: 25 points on D1, which is a quarter of the whole scale.

NOXI's three zeros, and why they are zeros

Three of the six rules ask what a vendor has published about a paid plan, and there is no paid plan here.

If you want a tool that costs nothing in November, read the D2, D4 and D5 columns and ignore the total; if you want to know whether to wait for a sale, read D1 and stop.

Ties, decided by the printed rule

• Canva 51, Notion 51, ChatGPT 51. D1 is 0 for all three, so D2 decides: Canva and Notion score 20 against ChatGPT's 10, putting ChatGPT eighth. Canva and Notion are level on D1, D2 and D4, so the table's row order decides: Canva sixth, Notion seventh.
• NOXI 50 and Beautiful.ai 50. Level at 0 on D1, so D2 decides: 20 against 10, putting NOXI ninth. Beautiful.ai's only free route today is a 14 day trial that "requires a credit card" [11].

Where the gaps come from

• Microsoft 365 minus NOXI = 45: D1 +25, D2 -5, D3 +15, D6 +10. Check: 25 - 5 + 15 + 10 = 45.
• Visme minus NOXI = 18: D3 +15, D5 -7, D6 +10. Check: 15 - 7 + 10 = 18.
• NOXI minus Prezi = 6: D2 +10, D3 -8, D4 +7, D5 +7, D6 -10. Check: 10 - 8 + 7 + 7 - 10 = 6.

How sensitive this order is

Eight readings were tested, and one can reorder the whole table at any moment.

• Microsoft 82 if a published window with no offers is read as a time limited promo (D1 12), or 70 if it is not an offer at all (D1 0). First either way.
• Perplexity 36 and last if an unbranded, undated credit promo does not count (D1 0).
• Canva 58 and fifth if a free plan whose AI allowance carries no number still counts as a stated allowance (D4 15).
• ChatGPT 61 and joint fourth if a free account counts as doing the job (D2 20). The table uses 10, because OpenAI says "Slides is available on ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans with Space access." [5]
• Canva 61 and Notion 61 if their cancellation and refund terms sit on a page we could not open (D6 10).
• The whole table changes if a vendor publishes an offer after 1 November. One published offer is worth up to 25 points and can reorder everything, which is why the check date is in the answer box, in the table header and in the meta description. One re-check is planned for 19 November.
• NOXI's ceiling here is 50 of 100 in every reading, because D1, D3 and D6 need a paid plan to score at all.

Canva, ChatGPT, Microsoft 365, Gamma, Perplexity and Notion: what each page says today

These are the six brand searches behind this query, and on 1 November 2026 only one of them has anything dated to show.

Standing discounts you can take without a sale

Five of the twelve print a percentage for yearly billing, from Visme's "Save 50%" down to Canva's "Save from 16%", and none of them needs a sale to exist.

The arithmetic on waiting. Microsoft's yearly saving is the easiest to check: Personal at $9.99 a month is $119.88 over twelve months, against $99.99 paid yearly. The saving is $19.89, or 16.6%, which is what "up to 17%" means. A November sale would have to cut more than that to be worth waiting for.

Student, education and nonprofit routes that are open today

Seven of the twelve publish an education or nonprofit route, and four of them hand the product over for nothing.

• Microsoft. Schools "can get Office 365 A1 for free", and the US student page shows 50% off Microsoft 365 Personal [2].
• Canva. "K-12 educational organizations and not-for-profits can enjoy most premium features for free." [3]
• Notion. "The Plus Plan (with a 1-member limit) is free for students and educators." [7]
• Beautiful.ai. "We offer a year free for students with valid .edu emails" [11].
• Visme. 25% for nonprofits, Student at US $48.00 a year, Educator at US $96.00 a year [10].
• ChatGPT. Up to 75% off ChatGPT Business for nonprofits, plus educator and Edu programmes [5].
• Adobe Express. Students and Educators tabs on the pricing page, though both reads of it were geo routed away from US dollars [8].

What is not open: OpenAI's US student offer, whose help page says "Claim the offer by October 31, 2026." That sentence is still in the present tense and the page is not marked as ended, so treat the window as closed on its own wording rather than as withdrawn [5]. If you are a student choosing a deck tool rather than a chatbot, our ranking of the best AI for PPT scores the tools themselves, not their prices.

Free plans that make a sale unnecessary

Five of the twelve score the full 15 on D4: a free plan with a stated allowance and an export you can keep.

Two patterns are worth noticing before you spend anything. The first is the disappearing number: Canva, Adobe Express and Notion all describe a free AI allowance without saying how large it is, and an allowance you cannot count is one you cannot budget against. The second is the badge: Gamma's free export is complete except for the branding, and removing it is what the Plus plan sells. For what the subscriptions themselves buy, our best AI subscription comparison scores capability rather than price movement, and best AI tools for work sorts them by the job.

Cancellation and refund terms, including the ones that refuse outright

Seven of the twelve publish both a cancellation and a refund route a logged out visitor can read, and three of those are a flat refusal.

Read this column before 19 November, not after. If a sale lands a week after you pay full price, your recourse is whatever the vendor already wrote down, and on three of the twelve the answer is no. Decktopus, a reference row, puts it most plainly: "3.4 No Refunds ... refunds are not available for both monthly and annual subscriptions." [13]

What these rules don't measure

These six rules measure what a vendor has published about money in November 2026, and nothing else.

• Whether a tool is worth buying at all. A 50% saving on software you will not open is not a saving, and no output quality is scored here.
• Regional pricing, which matters here more than usual. Canva and Adobe Express both served us UAE dirhams today, and a same day server fetch of the Adobe page served Israeli new shekels. Your own figures will differ.
• Bundles with hardware, which is most of what Microsoft's actual sale will be.
• Retailer offers for Microsoft keys, which Microsoft itself warns about: "Microsoft does not distribute products keys as standalone products." [1]
• Enterprise negotiation, where a published list price is a starting point.
• The chance that a vendor publishes something tomorrow, which is why this page carries a check date and a planned re-check.

Fair to the others: Microsoft is first on a technicality it earned honestly, by publishing a schedule when nobody else would. Visme's second place rests on terms that are blunt rather than generous. Gamma's free plan is more complete than its score suggests, because the badge is the only thing missing. Canva and Notion lose ten points each to pages we could not open, and both would be level at 61 if those pages exist behind a login.

Worked example: a $300 budget and three tools in the basket

Example Mei Tanaka, a fictional freelance consultant in Singapore, has a $300 software budget for the next twelve months and three things in her basket on 1 November 2026: Microsoft 365 Personal, because clients send her .pptx files; a chatbot subscription; and something to build decks with. US prices as shown on the vendors' own pages.

Check: 12 × 9.99 = 119.88; 119.88 + 240 = 359.88. Option B saves 119.88 - 99.99 = $19.89 against option A, the 16.6% that Microsoft's "up to 17%" describes. Option A is 359.88 - 300 = $59.88 over her budget.

Her decision: C, with one date in the diary. She takes the yearly price on Microsoft 365 now, because the saving is published and the November window contains no price to compare it with. She drops the chatbot plan, because $240 a year is most of her budget and the only USD figure she can confirm is the monthly one. She builds decks on a free plan, which leaves 300 - 99.99 = $200.01 for the rest of the year. Then she puts 19 November in the diary.

If a sale lands on 19 November, nothing on any of these pages obliges a vendor to refund her the difference. That is the practical argument for the free route in a month like this one, and it is why our Copilot and Gemini comparison is worth reading before a subscription rather than after.

Build it: tidy the deck you already have with Beautify my deck

If the thing you were going to buy this month is a better looking deck, you can test that for nothing before 19 November. Beautify my deck takes the file you already have, rebuilds its typography, spacing and colour, and gives you back an editable PowerPoint. Because you start from an attached file, research is off by default for file started decks, so every figure in the result was already in your file or your brief.

It costs nothing and no card is involved, which is the practical answer to a budget month. Our NOXI review goes through the tool feature by feature.

Frequently asked questions

Are there Black Friday AI deals in 2026?

Not yet. On 1 November 2026 we opened the Black Friday page of twelve AI and presentation vendors, and none had published a 2026 offer. Microsoft alone publishes a window, 19 to 28 November, while saying on the same page that it has not shared its deals yet.

Does Canva have a Black Friday sale?

No sale was published on 1 November 2026. canva.com/black-friday/ returns a 404 screen reading "That link doesn't work. Go to home to keep designing.", and the newsroom carries nothing. What is live is standing: "Save from 16%" for yearly billing, plus free premium features for K-12 schools and not-for-profits.

Is there a ChatGPT Black Friday discount?

None was published on 1 November 2026. chatgpt.com/black-friday returned HTTP 403 and no Black Friday item appeared in OpenAI's newsroom. The standing routes are a nonprofit discount of up to 75% on ChatGPT Business, plus educator and Edu programmes. The only USD consumer price we could confirm is $20 a month.

When is Microsoft's Black Friday sale in 2026?

Microsoft's store page says "The Microsoft Black Friday sale for 2026 runs from November 19th to November 28th." The same FAQ adds "We haven't shared our Black Friday deals just yet" and "You may find discounts on subscriptions for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Business plans." That is a window, not a price.

Does Gamma run Black Friday offers?

Nothing was published on 1 November 2026: gamma.app/black-friday returned HTTP 403, so there is no page to read. The pricing page offers "Save up to 28% with annual billing", the largest yearly saving on a deck tool in this comparison, and a free plan with 400 credits at signup.

What is the Perplexity "limited time" credit promo?

On 1 November 2026 the Pro page carried "+$40 free Computer credits" and the Max page "+$450 free Computer credits", each badged "LIMITED TIME". Neither is branded Black Friday and neither shows a start or an end date. It scores 12 of 25 on our offer rule, not the full 25.

Should I buy annual billing instead of waiting?

It is the only saving anyone has published. Microsoft 365 Personal is $119.88 over twelve monthly payments against $99.99 paid yearly, a saving of $19.89 or 16.6%. For a November sale to improve on that it would have to cut more, and on 1 November 2026 no vendor had published any figure at all.

Are there student or nonprofit discounts right now?

Yes, several, all checked on 1 November 2026. Schools "can get Office 365 A1 for free"; Canva gives K-12 schools and not-for-profits most premium features free; Notion's Plus with a one member limit is free for students and educators; Beautiful.ai offers "a year free for students with valid .edu emails"; Visme lists 25% for nonprofits.

Which AI tools are free enough that I don't need a deal?

Five score full marks on our free plan rule, checked 1 November 2026: PowerPoint for the web, Gamma with 400 credits and a PPTX export, Presentations.AI's $0 Starter, Visme's US $0 Basic, and NOXI with 1,000 credits a month, no card and an editable .pptx. Visme's PPTX export is not on its free plan.

Can I get a refund if a sale starts after I buy?

Check the vendor's own terms before you pay, because three of our twelve publish a refusal: Perplexity's "2.4 No Subscription Refunds.", Visme's refusal to refund early termination, and Presentations.AI's "all Fees for the Service are non-refundable". Microsoft, ChatGPT and Prezi publish both a cancellation and a refund route.

Sources & methodology

Every page below was opened on 1 November 2026, logged out, with no cookie banner accepted and no form submitted. Prices are printed in the currency the page served that day. Scores are copied from our shared November 2026 score file. Mei Tanaka is fictional.

• [1] Microsoft Store and Microsoft 365 · Black Friday 2026 deals; Compare Microsoft 365 plans; PowerPoint; How certain features behave in PowerPoint for the web; Microsoft Store refund and return policy; How to tell, on product keys; checked 1 November 2026.
• [2] Microsoft education and student routes · Office 365 Education; Student pricing; checked 1 November 2026.
• [3] Canva · canva.com/black-friday; Pricing; AI access; Terms of use; checked 1 November 2026.
• [4] Gamma · gamma.app/black-friday; Pricing and its FAQ; checked 1 November 2026.
• [5] ChatGPT and OpenAI · chatgpt.com/black-friday; Pricing; Slides in ChatGPT, help article 20001605; Canceling your ChatGPT subscription, 7232927; Requesting a refund, 7232895; checked 1 November 2026.
• [6] Perplexity · perplexity.ai/black-friday; Pro and Max plans; Terms of service; checked 1 November 2026.
• [7] Notion · notion.com/black-friday; Pricing and its FAQ; checked 1 November 2026.
• [8] Adobe Express · adobe.com/express/black-friday; Pricing; checked 1 November 2026.
• [9] Prezi · prezi.com/black-friday; Pricing; Terms of use; checked 1 November 2026.
• [10] Visme · visme.co/black-friday; Pricing; Terms and conditions, last updated 12 August 2026; checked 1 November 2026.
• [11] Beautiful.ai · beautiful.ai/black-friday; Pricing and its FAQ; Terms of service; checked 1 November 2026.
• [12] Presentations.AI · presentations.ai/black-friday; Pricing; Terms; checked 1 November 2026.
• [13] Reference rows · Claude pricing; Anthropic consumer terms; Decktopus terms; checked 1 November 2026.
• [14] NOXI capabilities, free credits and export · noxi.ai and NOXI product documentation; checked 1 November 2026.

Nothing is on sale yet, so the cheapest move this week is to test the free routes. Build the decks themselves in NOXI: free, no card, downloaded as an editable .pptx with real text boxes.