Basecamp vs Gamma
Pricing
Basecamp: Free tier (1 project), paid from $25/mo, Unlimited $299/mo
Gamma: Free tier, paid from $9/mo billed yearly
Description
Basecamp: The OG project management tool
Gamma: AI tool that turns a prompt or a document into a presentation, document, simple website or social post
Pros
- All-in-one (chat, docs, tasks, schedule)
- Flat monthly pricing by number of projects, not per user
- 20 years of refinement
- Imports PowerPoint and PDF files and exports to PPTX, PDF, PNG or Google Slides, on the free plan too
- Unused monthly AI credits on paid plans roll over, up to twice the monthly amount
- Pro adds API access, custom branding and up to 10 custom domains for published sites
Cons
- Opinionated (their way or highway)
- Free plan allows only one project and five users
- The free plan's 400 credits are given once at signup and do not refill
- Removing the Gamma branding needs Plus or higher
- The free plan creates at most 10 slides per prompt
Details
Basecamp is project management from the people who wrote the book on bootstrapping (literally: REWORK, Shape Up). Built by Jason Fried and DHH at 37signals. Over 100k paying customers, profitable from day one, famously bootstrapped (except a small Bezos investment in 2006). They also make HEY email.
Plans are priced by active projects. Free covers one project for up to five users. Freelancer costs $25/mo for 3 active projects and up to 20 users, Studio $59/mo for 10 projects, Pro $99/mo for 25 projects with time tracking, and Unlimited $299/mo billed annually for unlimited projects. Studio and above allow unlimited users.
Gamma builds slides, documents, simple websites and social posts from a prompt or from material you already have. Its agent starts with an outline you can shape, then designs the pages, and you keep editing by chatting with it or by moving things around yourself.
It suits founders who need a pitch deck, a sales one-pager or a quick web page without opening a design tool. Imported PowerPoints and PDFs keep their formatting, and you can pull content in from Slack, Notion and Dropbox.
Every AI action uses credits. Plus costs $9 per seat a month billed yearly, with 1,000 credits a month, and Pro costs $18 with 4,000. Annual billing saves up to 28% compared with paying monthly.
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