Is ChatGPT Free in November 2026? Yes, With Ads and Three Uploads a Day, and Here Is the Field

Disclosure: NOXI publishes this page and is one of the ten free plans scored. That is why the rules, the weights and every cell's source are printed, including the two rules where NOXI scores half marks. The first half of the page is about ChatGPT alone, from OpenAI's own pages.

Every sentence there was read signed out on 2 November 2026, in a session whose header still offered "Log in" and "Sign up for free". Then, after the answer, nine other free plans on the same seven rules, so you can see what "free" costs on each.

Key numbers

None of the six is part of any score.

ChatGPT free limits, in OpenAI's own numbers

OpenAI publishes exactly one hard allowance for the free plan: "Free users are limited to 3 file uploads per day." Everything else on the Free card is an adjective [1][3].

What the ChatGPT free plan gives you, row by row

The Free column of the pricing card is a list of eight rows. Seven of the eight are relative words, and the only one with a figure of any kind has a footnote attached to it [1].

Read from the individual tab of chatgpt.com/pricing, signed out, 2 November 2026 at 14:49 local (UTC+04) [1].

We print no number of free images a day: OpenAI publishes none on any page we could open, and the older image-limits article now redirects into API documentation.

The upload rule, and what it means on a deadline

Three uploads a day is the limit most students hit first, and it is per day rather than per chat. The same page sets the per-file ceilings: documents and presentations up to 512 MB each, images 20 MB, text files capped at 2 million tokens. Paid plans move to "up to 80 files every 3 hours", and OpenAI "may lower these limits during peak hours" [3]. Sending a .pptx in is also a different thing from getting one out, which is what the file rule below measures.

The ads question, and the second free option

Ads are the change that makes the old answer to this question wrong: OpenAI states "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans", with a start date of 9 February 2026 in the United States, and beside them a second free tier that is more limited [4]. We read that article twice on 2 November 2026, once when its stamp said five hours old and again when it said twenty one minutes old, and the three load-bearing sentences did not move between the two.

What the page says, in its own words [4]:

• Who sees them: "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans." The Go card agrees: "This plan may include ads." [1]
• Who does not: "Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts will not have ads."
• The alternative: "Choose a free, no-ads option with additional limits (fewer messages per day and no access to tools like images)". So there are two free tiers now, and the quieter one costs you messages and image tools.
• What advertisers get: "Advertisers do not have access to your chats, chat history, memories, or personal details", and "we never sell your data to advertisers."
• Who is excluded: accounts "identified as belonging to users under 18", and ads are "not eligible to appear near sensitive topics". Personalised ads are "not initially available in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland."

This is why ChatGPT scores 5 of 10 on the advertising rule rather than 0 or 10: ads are documented, and so is an ad-free way to stay at zero. The other nine plans document no advertising inside the product at all, so on this rule ChatGPT is the outlier rather than the norm. Grok is the row to read carefully: no x.ai page documents advertising inside Grok, which is why it takes the full ten, while x.ai/pricing sells "Less timeline ads" on Plus and "Ad-free scrolling on most surfaces" on Premium, so a free user still meets ads on X itself [32].

Does ChatGPT work without an account?

Yes, in supported countries, and it is one of the two rules where ChatGPT takes full marks and NOXI takes the middle band: "ChatGPT can be used without an account in supported countries, including in Europe and the UK" [2]. OpenAI does not publish that country list on the page, so "supported" is the operative word, and signing out does not switch off model training: the data controls article tells signed-out users to "open Settings and turn off Improve the model for everyone", per browser rather than per person [6].

Only two of the ten plans document use with no account at all. Microsoft is the other: "Microsoft Copilot is available at no cost at copilot.cloud.microsoft", and "Sign in isn't required, but signing in with your personal account gives you access to chat history" [26]. Google is partial, with "You can use some features in the Gemini web app, gemini.google.com, without signing in" [22], and Anthropic sends a signed-out visitor to a sign-in page, which is why Claude scores zero here while leading on files.

The two OpenAI pages that disagree about Free

Two OpenAI pages name two different models for the free plan, read three minutes apart, and both were current on 2 November 2026. The pricing card prints "Unlimited text chats with GPT-6", under its footnote "Unlimited text chats subject to abuse guardrails", and ticks GPT-6 Luna for Free [1]. The Free Tier FAQ, updated the previous day, prints "Free users have access to GPT-5.6 Luna." [5]

We print both and pick no winner, because OpenAI does not pin down in public which model a free chat reaches. On capability the FAQ is the better of the two: "Search the web and obtain up-to-date information", "Analyze and extract insights from your data", "Upload images or files in your prompts" [5].

ChatGPT free vs Plus: what the twenty dollars buys

Plus is $20 per month on OpenAI's own help centre, and the honest summary of the gap is that you are buying away the adjectives: the limited rows on the Free card, and the ads [4][10]. That figure comes from the student offer article, where OpenAI writes "the subscription renews at $20 per month unless you cancel." It is one of only three consumer prices we could confirm in US dollars on an OpenAI domain.

Two details catch people out. The deck feature inside the chat is not on Plus at all, only on Pro, Business and Enterprise with Space access [8]. And Pro is named in US dollars on just one page we opened, as the row labels "Pro ($100/month)" and "Pro ($200/month)" in the voice article [11]. If the question is which paid tier rather than whether free is enough, our AI subscription comparison prices the ladder, and what AI presentation makers cost does the same for deck tools.

How we scored ten free plans

Ten plans were scored on seven printed rules worth 100 points, applied the same way to every row, on documented capability from official pages opened signed out on 2 November 2026. Not a new hands-on test, and no weight was moved to move any row.

Three of those wordings are tighter than they look, and each cost somebody points. F2 asks the figure to quantify the free tier's own allowance of the main job, because otherwise any vendor that prints a storage number anywhere scores 15. F4's zero band names how "an account is required" is established, because four vendors document nothing and only the entry page settles it. F7 says a phone browser is not a second surface, and that rule costs NOXI five points.

Ten free plans, scored

On the seven rules NOXI scores 90, Claude 83 and ChatGPT 78, and the top of the table turns on one thing: whether a free plan hands you a file you can keep. NOXI scores highest on these seven rules, and this is a free-plan ranking rather than an assistant ranking. If your question is which free assistant to chat with, the answer is ChatGPT or Claude, and our AI chatbot ranking is the page for it.

Scored on documented capability, not a new hands-on test. Every page in the Source column was opened signed out. Times are local, UTC+04, unless UTC is named.

Every cell, and the arithmetic

The sums, written out so you can check them: NOXI 20 + 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 90 · Claude 20 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 8 + 10 = 83 · ChatGPT 20 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 8 + 10 = 78 · Gamma 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 + 8 + 5 = 68 · Google Gemini and Perplexity 20 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 10 + 8 + 10 = 68 each · Microsoft Copilot 10 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 65 · Canva and Grok 10 + 0 + 10 + 5 + 10 + 8 + 10 = 53 each · DeepSeek 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 5 = 15.

Which rule decided each tie

• Three plans tie at 68. Gamma takes fourth on F3: its free plan exports PDF, PNG and PowerPoint with the "Made by Gamma" badge [17], while Gemini names no file format on free [20] and Perplexity's plan table marks "File and App Creation" as "No" for Standard (Free) [24].
• Gemini against Perplexity is identical in all seven cells, so the chain runs level through F3, F2, F6, F7 and F4 and alphabetical order decided it. Canva against Grok at 53 is identical too, and went the same way.

The gaps, explained

NOXI 90 minus Claude 83 = 7. NOXI is ahead by 7 on F6, because its policy states files are not used to train models while Anthropic documents a setting, and by 5 on F4, because claude.ai sends a logged-out visitor to a sign-in page. Claude is ahead by 5 on F7, with desktop and phone apps. 7 + 5 minus 5 = 7.

Claude 83 minus ChatGPT 78 = 5, and the file rule is the whole story: Claude's free plan creates ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".docx" and PDF for every user [13], while ChatGPT's only free route to a .pptx runs inside Microsoft PowerPoint [7]. Claude gains 10 on F3 and 5 on F5 and gives back 10 on F4.

Google Gemini 68 minus Microsoft Copilot 65 = 3, the closest pair on the board, and they are opposites: Google publishes a number and Microsoft publishes a promise. Google takes F1 by 10 and F2 by 15; Microsoft takes F3 by 10, F4 by 5 and F6 by 7. 25 minus 22 = 3. And NOXI 90 minus ChatGPT 78 = 12: ahead by 10 on F3, 5 on F5 and 7 on F6, behind by 5 on F4 and 5 on F7.

Where NOXI lands, and the two cells where it scores half

NOXI finishes first on 90 of 100, with full marks on five of the seven rules: free use with a stated allowance (F1), a published figure rather than an adjective (F2), a file you can keep (F3), no advertising (F5), and a policy that your content is not used to train models (F6) [37]. The allowance is the figure: 1,000 credits a month, about 25 for a deck.

• F4 = 5. A deck from a prompt works signed out only up to a free limit, after which a free account is needed, and uploading a file needs that account too [37]. ChatGPT and Microsoft document use with no account at all, so they take 10 and NOXI takes the middle band.
• F7 = 5. NOXI runs in two places: the web app, on a desktop or in a phone browser, and inside assistants through the one connector address on noxi.ai/connect [38]. It ships as a web app rather than an installed desktop or phone app, and under F7 a web app used on a phone is one surface and not two, which is how DeepSeek and Gamma were read on the same rule. On a phone the route is to edit by AI chat in your phone's browser.

That second cell moved during verification, from 10 to 5, and it is printed because the rule is the rule: Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft and Google all take 10 on F7 with apps you install [13][26].

What happens if you weight the rules differently

Four readings, all printed, because a ranking that survives only one set of weights is not worth citing.

Gamma has the widest spread of any row across these readings, fourth, seventh and fourth, so treat its place as unsettled. Only two plans document an unbranded standard file on free, NOXI and Claude, and that fact decides the top three places. The two in the middle band say why in their own words: Gamma's exports carry the "Made by Gamma" badge until a paid plan [17], and Canva writes that "Premium elements will have watermarks on your design if you're a Canva Free user" [30].

Who should pick what

Six jobs, six routes, each with the documented fact that puts it there. Five of the six are not ours.

• To ask questions and pay nothing → ChatGPT, which documents free use and use "without an account in supported countries", with web, iOS and Android ticked for Free [1][2].
• To get a file out of a free chat → Claude, whose free plan creates ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".docx" and PDF, "available to all Claude users (Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and Enterprise)" [13].
• For the biggest documented free context window → Google Gemini, which publishes "32k tokens" without an AI plan [21].
• To start with no sign-in at all → Microsoft Copilot, "available at no cost at copilot.cloud.microsoft", where "Sign in isn't required" [26]; our Copilot and Gemini comparison covers that plan, and ten free PowerPoint routes the Office side.
• If the free output must be unbranded, check the badge first → Gamma gives "400 credits when initially signing up" that "do not refresh", and removes its badge only on a paid plan [16][17].
• For an editable .pptx with no card → NOXI, free on 1,000 credits a month, about 25 for a deck, no watermark [37].

The quotable version: ChatGPT is free, including without an account in supported countries, and since 9 February 2026 the Free and Go plans may carry ads with a more limited ad-free option beside them; the one hard limit OpenAI publishes for Free is three file uploads a day; and on seven printed free-plan rules NOXI scores 90 of 100, Claude 83 and ChatGPT 78, checked 2 November 2026.

Free in your country, and the currency your screen shows

The price you see is not the price this page can print, because chatgpt.com/pricing was served to us in dirhams while its own footer region selector read "United States". That is why every ChatGPT figure here carries its currency and its time.

Is ChatGPT free in the UAE?

Free is free there: the card we were served read "AED 0 / month", with Go at "AED 30", Plus at "AED 80" and Pro "From AED 385" [1]. Those are the figures the page printed, and we do not convert them. OpenAI's explanation is quotable: "All purchases are in USD - we offer a local currency billing in a limited set of countries" [9], and its multi-currency billing article lists AED among the currencies it bills in.

Is ChatGPT free in India?

The free plan is a plan, not a country offer, and no OpenAI page we opened names a mobile operator bundle anywhere. If one exists it is documented by the carrier, so we print none. What did move is the cheapest paid tier: the Go article was edited an hour before we read it and now says "ChatGPT Go is now available in all ChatGPT supported countries" [9].

Why your screen and this page disagree

Four vendors served a currency we could not safely label: Gemini and Grok printed a bare dollar sign with no currency code, DeepSeek names no currency, and Canva served US dollars by default and dirhams with a country parameter [20][29][32][35]. Where a page refused us we print nothing: gamma.app/pricing returned 403 on five attempts across 1 and 2 November 2026 and perplexity.ai/pricing returned 404 twice [36].

What these rules don't measure

Seven rules about free plans are not seven rules about quality, and most of what people mean by "best free AI" scores nothing.

• Not measured for anyone: answer quality, writing, reasoning, coding, speed, throttling in practice, enterprise controls, and regional availability beyond what the vendor states.
• ChatGPT: the widest free surface in the field, use with no account, web, iOS and Android on Free, and a plugin directory open "across ChatGPT plans"; our ChatGPT plugins ranking scores twelve of them.
• Claude and Microsoft: four standard file formats on a free plan [13], and the strongest data sentence in the field, "Prompts, responses, and your file contents when using the Microsoft Copilot app aren't used to train foundation models" [27].
• Canva, Gemini and Perplexity: a design library and a download list no deck tool matches [30], plus research behaviour and citation style, which these rules ignore entirely.
• Where others lead NOXI: Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft and Google all ship desktop or phone apps, and two let you start with no account. NOXI runs in the browser on a desktop or a phone, where you edit by AI chat.

For a written document rather than a deck, our best AI for reports ranking scores the same vendors on a different question, and does ChatGPT train on your data goes deeper on the data rule.

What changed recently

Five dated movements on vendor pages in the two days before publication.

One more, as a refusal rather than a verdict: x.ai/pricing and two x.ai legal pages returned 403 to a fetcher between 09:14 and 09:23 UTC, then opened normally in a browser between 15:05 and 15:11 local the same day. Grok's row rests on the pages that opened [32][33].

What would change this ranking

Three things could move the top of this table, and each one is a named page you can check yourself.

• 1. OpenAI removes ads from Free. The page to watch is the ads article at help.openai.com/en/articles/20001047 [4]. If "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" goes, F5 moves from 5 to 10 and ChatGPT reaches 83, level with Claude, where the printed chain hands second place to Claude on F3. We re-check on 1 December 2026.
• 2. Anthropic states a training position for consumer chats. The pages to watch are claude.com/pricing, which marks Free "Model training: Opt-out", and the Model Improvement article at privacy.claude.com, dated March 16, 2026, which frames the same thing as a choice to allow [12][15]. A plain statement that consumer chats are not used for training moves F6 from 8 to 15 and Claude to 90, level with NOXI, and Claude then takes the tie on F7, where it has apps and we have a browser. We re-check on 1 December 2026.
• 3. Perplexity's plan table stops reading "No". The page to watch is the plan comparison at perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/11187416, where "File and App Creation" is "No" for Standard (Free) [24]. If that cell changes, F3 moves from 0 to 10 or 20, Perplexity reaches 78 or 88, and the three way tie at 68 disappears. We re-check on 1 December 2026.

Each trigger names the page, the cell it moves and the date we look again.

Worked example: no card, one deadline, five days of uploads

A student with fourteen source files and no card meets the daily upload limit before he meets his deadline.

Step 1: the reading, on the free plan

His free account allows "3 file uploads per day" [3]. 14 ÷ 3 = 4.67, so the files take 5 days, more days than he has. What rescues him is what the rules reward: a published number, so he can plan around the limit instead of discovering it.

Step 2: the deck, and the four routes

Step 3: the arithmetic of the free deck

He builds it on NOXI's free allowance: 1,000 credits a month and about 25 for a deck, so one deck is 25 ÷ 1,000 = 2.5% of the month and the allowance covers 1,000 ÷ 25 = 40 decks before it resets [37]. He downloads an editable PowerPoint with no watermark and opens it on a university machine on Friday. His own conclusion: $240 a year is worth paying only once his files arrive faster than three a day, and he reviews that on 1 December 2026.

Where NOXI fits in a free-plan question

NOXI fits one job in this field: a researched deck that arrives as an editable PowerPoint with no watermark, on a free allowance of 1,000 credits a month and no card [37]. That is why it scores highest on these seven rules, and it is a narrow result rather than a broad one. For chatting, reading, coding or research, the rows above it in any sensitivity reading are the better answer.

Describe your topic and NOXI builds the full deck; you can review the outline first or generate straight away. From a prompt it researches the topic on the web first, and slides that carry figures get a source line [37]. You can also upload a PDF, Word document, Excel or CSV file, PowerPoint or image, up to 200 MB a file, on a free account, then ask the AI to change one slide or the whole deck in plain language, in English or Arabic.

Download it as an editable PowerPoint (.pptx), free and with no watermark: NOXI's own export engine writes real text boxes and embeds the fonts, Arabic included. Export a PDF, present full-screen, share a view-only or edit link, or invite people by email to edit together in real time with version history. Your presentations, prompts and files are not used to train AI models [37], and one address, mcp.noxi.ai/mcp, connects NOXI to the assistants you already use [38].

Build it: a deck from a prompt, with research on

This flow starts from a prompt rather than a file, so NOXI researches the topic first and figure slides carry a source line. Six steps, on a free account.

Is ChatGPT free? FAQ

Is ChatGPT free?

Yes. OpenAI's help centre says "ChatGPT is free to use, and can now be accessed before creating an account at chatgpt.com", and the pricing card prices Free at zero, checked 2 November 2026. Two conditions sit beside that: ads may appear, and the plan allows three file uploads a day.

Is ChatGPT free to use without an account?

In supported countries, yes: "ChatGPT can be used without an account in supported countries, including in Europe and the UK", checked 2 November 2026. OpenAI does not publish that country list. Signing out does not stop training, and the data controls article tells signed-out users to turn off "Improve the model for everyone" per browser.

Is ChatGPT free for teachers?

There is a free teacher plan with an end date. The pricing page says "We offer ChatGPT for Teachers, a free plan for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027", read 2 November 2026. Teachers outside that group use the ordinary free plan: free use, three uploads a day, and ads.

Does ChatGPT cost money?

Only if you want more than Free gives. The free plan costs nothing and needs no card, checked 2 November 2026. Plus renews at "$20 per month" on OpenAI's own help page, and OpenAI states it does "not support annual billing" on Go, Plus or Pro, so paid tiers run month by month.

How much is ChatGPT?

The pricing page we were served on 2 November 2026 printed AED 0 for Free, AED 30 for Go, AED 80 for Plus and "From AED 385" for Pro, while its region selector read "United States". In US dollars, OpenAI's help pages name Plus at "$20 per month" and label two Pro tiers at $100 and $200.

Does the ChatGPT free plan show ads?

Yes, in some regions. OpenAI's ads article says "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" and that "Ad testing started in the United States on February 9, 2026", read 2 November 2026. It also offers "a free, no-ads option with additional limits (fewer messages per day and no access to tools like images)".

How many files can I upload on the ChatGPT free plan?

Three a day. "Free users are limited to 3 file uploads per day", per OpenAI's upload help page, checked 2 November 2026. It is a daily limit rather than a per-chat one, paid plans move to "up to 80 files every 3 hours", and documents are capped at 512 MB each.

Is there a message limit on the ChatGPT free plan?

OpenAI publishes no number for messages. The Free card reads "Unlimited text chats with GPT-6" with the footnote "Unlimited text chats subject to abuse guardrails", and the table adds "Usage must be reasonable and comply with our policies", read 2 November 2026. The ad-free option has "fewer messages per day".

Which free AI gives me a file I can keep?

Two of the ten plans we scored document an unbranded standard file on free: Claude creates ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".docx" and PDF for all users, and NOXI exports editable PowerPoint and PDF with no watermark on 1,000 credits a month. Gamma exports with a badge until you pay. Checked 2 November 2026.

Why does ChatGPT show me a different price than this page?

Because the pricing page is geo-routed. It served us dirhams on 2 November 2026 while its footer region selector read "United States". OpenAI explains it this way: "All purchases are in USD - we offer a local currency billing in a limited set of countries", and its help centre lists AED among those currencies.

Sources and methodology

Every fact comes from a vendor's own page, opened signed out on 2 November 2026 between 14:17 and 15:40 local (UTC+04), with a few read earlier that morning in UTC and labelled as such. Imran Qureshi is fictional, and every calculation was checked twice.

• [1] "AED 0 / month", "AED 30 / month", "AED 80 / month", "From AED 385 / month"; "Unlimited text chats with GPT-6" with the footnote "Unlimited text chats subject to abuse guardrails."; "This plan may include ads."; "We offer ChatGPT for Teachers, a free plan for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027"; web, iOS and Android ticked for Free; footer region selector "United States" ChatGPT, Pricing. Opened 2 November 2026, 14:49 local.
• [2] "ChatGPT is free to use, and can now be accessed before creating an account at chatgpt.com."; "ChatGPT can be used without an account in supported countries, including in Europe and the UK." OpenAI Help Center, the ChatGPT home page. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [3] "Free users are limited to 3 file uploads per day."; "You can upload up to 80 files every 3 hours."; "Documents and presentations have a maximum size of 512 MB per file."; "OpenAI may lower these limits during peak hours." OpenAI Help Center, uploading files and audio to ChatGPT. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [4] "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans."; "Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts will not have ads."; "Ad testing started in the United States on February 9, 2026."; "Choose a free, no-ads option with additional limits (fewer messages per day and no access to tools like images)"; "we never sell your data to advertisers."; "Personalized ads are not initially available in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland." OpenAI Help Center, ads in ChatGPT. Opened twice on 2 November 2026.
• [5] "Free users have access to GPT-5.6 Luna."; "Search the web and obtain up-to-date information"; "Upload images or files in your prompts" OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT Free Tier FAQ. Updated 1 November 2026, opened 2 November 2026.
• [6] "On personal workspaces with ChatGPT Free, Plus, or Pro, data sharing is enabled by default."; "When using ChatGPT without signing in, open Settings and turn off Improve the model for everyone." OpenAI Help Center, data controls in ChatGPT. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [7] "available globally to Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and K-12 users."; "Free and Go include limited usage access."; "a PowerPoint-native AI experience that lives in a sidebar inside Microsoft PowerPoint" OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT for PowerPoint. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [8] "Slides is available on ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans with Space access."; "PowerPoint, to continue editing a .pptx file." OpenAI Help Center, creating and collaborating on Slides in ChatGPT. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [9] "ChatGPT Go is now available in all ChatGPT supported countries."; "we do not support annual billing or the option to pay for multiple months in advance for ChatGPT Go, Plus, or Pro"; "All purchases are in USD - we offer a local currency billing in a limited set of countries" OpenAI Help Center, what is ChatGPT Go. Updated an hour before we read it on 2 November 2026.
• [10] "the subscription renews at $20 per month unless you cancel."; "Claim the offer by October 31, 2026." still printed in the present tense on 2 November 2026, with the claim page behind a sign-in wall OpenAI Help Center, back to school offer for students. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [11] The usage table's row labels "Pro ($100/month)" and "Pro ($200/month)" OpenAI Help Center, ChatGPT voice. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [12] "$0" and "Free for everyone"; Free row "Model training: Opt-out"; Pro "$20 if billed monthly", with the annual option printed as "$200 billed up front" Anthropic, Claude pricing. Opened 2 November 2026, 14:22 local.
• [13] ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".docx, and PDF"; "available to all Claude users (Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and Enterprise)" Anthropic Help Center, creating files with Claude. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:32 local.
• [14] "Free users are limited to one custom connector." Anthropic Help Center, custom connectors. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:28 local.
• [15] The "Model Improvement" setting under "Privacy Settings", on a page dated March 16, 2026 Anthropic, privacy centre. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:27 local.
• [16] "Each new Free user receives 400 credits when initially signing up."; "On the Free plan, all AI actions use credits, and credits do not refresh." Gamma Help Center, how AI credits work. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:25 local.
• [17] "PDF", "PNG", "PowerPoint (PPTX)"; the "Made by Gamma" badge; "Workspaces on any paid plan (Plus, Pro, or Ultra) can export without the badge." Gamma Help Center, exporting. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [18] A Free account's default is "Data is allowed to be used to train AI models.", with the control under Settings, then Data Controls; page shows September 24, 2026 Gamma Help Center, data controls. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [19] "It's available on iOS and Android."; "It is currently available in the US and Canada only." Gamma Help Center, the mobile app. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:38 local.
• [20] "$0/ month with a Google Account", printed with a bare dollar sign and no currency code; "Access to our Flash-Lite model" Google, Gemini plans. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:22 local.
• [21] "Without an AI plan"; "32k tokens" Google Help, Gemini context windows. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:24 local.
• [22] "You can use some features in the Gemini web app, gemini.google.com, without signing in." Google Help, using Gemini without an account. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [23] "A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers", with the Keep Activity opt-out; privacy section "Last updated: October 26, 2026" Google Help, Gemini Apps privacy. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [24] "Standard (Free)"; "3/day" Pro Searches; "1/month" Research; "File and App Creation: No" Perplexity Help Center, which Perplexity subscription plan is right for you. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:20 local.
• [25] "For Free, Perplexity Pro and Perplexity Max users, AI Data Retention is enabled by default." Perplexity Help Center, data collection at Perplexity. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:30 local.
• [26] "Microsoft Copilot is available at no cost at copilot.cloud.microsoft."; "Sign in isn't required, but signing in with your personal account gives you access to chat history" Microsoft Support, what's the difference between Microsoft Copilot (free) and Copilot in Microsoft 365. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:18 local.
• [27] "Prompts, responses, and your file contents when using the Microsoft Copilot app aren't used to train foundation models." Microsoft Support, Copilot activity history. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:30 local.
• [28] "Files must be saved in and shared from OneDrive." Microsoft, free Office for the web. Opened 2 November 2026, 09:20 UTC.
• [29] "Limited access to Standard and Premium AI tools."; "plus 10x more AI allowance than Canva Free"; "For Canva Free, if you reach your limit you'll see short pauses between generations" Canva Help Center, understanding your AI usage. Opened 2 November 2026, 14:52 local.
• [30] JPG, WebP, PNG, SVG, PDF, PPTX, DOCX, CSV, XLSX, GIF and MP4; "Downloading as PPTX is currently not supported for other design types" Canva Help Center, download file types, and "Premium elements will have watermarks on your design if you're a Canva Free user" Canva Help Center, watermarks on my design. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:34 local and re-read the same day.
• [31] "You can manage the use of your data for training AI to improve our Service in the privacy controls page"; policy dated "November 02, 2026" Canva, privacy policy. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:40 local.
• [32] "Free" "$0" "/month"; "Limited" "AI usage"; "Limited Chat requests"; "Prices shown do not include applicable taxes or fees (e.g. VAT)."; a bare dollar sign with no currency code x.ai, pricing. Opened in a browser 2 November 2026, 15:05 local, after a 403 to a fetcher at 09:14 UTC.
• [33] "For the Grok.com website, you can go to Settings, Data, and then 'Improve the Model' to select whether your content is used for model training" x.ai, legal FAQ. Opened 2 November 2026, 15:11 local.
• [34] "Grok for PowerPoint is a free Microsoft 365 add-in." x.ai news, introducing the PowerPoint add-in. Opened 2 November 2026, 09:19 UTC. The Microsoft Marketplace listing for the add-in returned 403 on three URLs, so its plan gate is not printable.
• [35] The home page does not state whether the app or the chat is free, and chat.deepseek.com redirects to a sign-in page; "Search" and "Fetch" at "$0.75" per 1,000 successful requests from "00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026", with a dollar sign and no currency named DeepSeek, API pricing and DeepSeek. Opened 2 November 2026.
• [36] The refusal record for this page: gamma.app/pricing returned 403 on five attempts across 1 and 2 November 2026, so no Gamma price appears here; perplexity.ai/pricing returned 404 twice to a fetch and again in a browser on 2 November 2026, so no Perplexity Pro price appears here; and the claim page for OpenAI's student offer sits behind a sign-in wall, so we say nothing about whether it can still be claimed.
• [37] NOXI: free with no card, 1,000 credits a month reset on the first and about 25 for a deck; deck from a prompt, with web research first and a source line on slides that show figures; uploads of PDF, Word, Excel or CSV, PowerPoint and images up to 200 MB a file on a free account; chat edits of one slide, the whole deck or a selected element; twelve chart types with editable numbers inside NOXI; editable .pptx with real text boxes and embedded fonts, and PDF, with no watermark found; present mode, share links, email invites, real-time co-editing and version history; the web app works in a phone browser, where you edit by AI chat; "We do not use your presentations, prompts, or uploaded files to train or fine-tune AI models." NOXI and NOXI privacy policy. Checked 2 November 2026.
• [38] One server address, mcp.noxi.ai/mcp, for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, and "Files in every chat: PDF, PowerPoint and HTML" NOXI, connect NOXI to your AI assistant. Checked 2 November 2026. NOXI is listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory; our plugins ranking scores that listing on its own rules.

Keep chatting on the free plan you like, and when someone needs the deck as a file, describe it in NOXI and download an editable .pptx free, with no watermark.