Perplexity Teammates Are Here: Always-On AI Agents for Max Subscribers at $200 a Month

Perplexity Launches Teammates, Always-On AI Agents

Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026, persistent AI agents that take ownership of ongoing work instead of waiting for your next prompt, available only to individual subscribers on the $200-a-month Max plan, on the web only, as a research preview. A Perplexity teammate is a persistent AI agent that owns an ongoing job — a standing responsibility, not a single chat session — and keeps working on it until the result is ready for review. Give it a role, such as triaging bug reports, and it plans the tasks, watches your connected tools, and asks when it needs input. Perplexity's chief executive, Aravind Srinivas, called them "persistent coworkers that take over responsibilities and get tasks done end to end".

The launch lands in the middle of the race to build the AI coworker first. OpenAI has Dots, Anthropic has Claude Duet, Microsoft has Copilot Cowork, and now Perplexity has Teammates. OpenAI and Microsoft aim their agents at organisations; Perplexity is starting with individual subscribers.

What a Teammate Actually Does

Teammates run inside Perplexity Computer, the company's system for sending AI agents to do tasks on a user's own machine. Unlike Computer's temporary sandbox sessions, a teammate persists from one job to the next, drawing on the context a user already has in Perplexity: Projects, Memory, Skills, connectors, files and past sessions. Each teammate runs on its own isolated computer, and saved credentials are encrypted — the teammate cannot view them itself.

Capability	What it means in practice
Multi-agent orchestration	Breaks a goal into tasks, runs them in parallel, and adds agents as the work grows
Proactive monitoring	Watches connected tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts work when something arrives
Ongoing responsibility	Keeps its assigned role until you change it, and retains memory between conversations
Desktop and browser use	Each teammate has its own computer and browser, and you can take over and steer it
Apps in Slack and more	You can add a teammate to a Slack channel, where coworkers can give it work
Model choice	New teammates use Claude Opus 5.5 by default; you can pick a different model per teammate

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The workflow is closer to hiring than to prompting. You create a teammate in the sidebar, give it a name or role, add instructions and starting tasks, and describe the job, including a schedule if the work should repeat. Then you follow its progress in its own thread, review its work, or take over its desktop. When a large goal arrives, the teammate breaks it into tasks, starts additional agents for the parallel pieces, and returns finished work for review. Perplexity suggests starting with two or three teammates, and its examples cover marketing, sales, support, operations and finance.

The Price, and What It Buys

Item	Figure
Max plan, monthly billing	$200 a month
Max plan, annual billing	$2,000 a year, about $167 a month
Computer credits included	10,000 a month, plus a one-time 35,000-credit bonus
Credit value	100 credits equal $1
Teammates usage at launch	Free during a promotional period, then drawn from the plan's credits
Who can use Teammates	Individual Max subscribers on the web only

The price is the story, and Perplexity does not hide it. Teammates are not sold separately: access comes only through the Max plan, and Free and Pro users must upgrade. Perplexity's credits page lists 10,000 Computer credits a month on Max, plus a one-time 35,000-credit bonus, and values 100 credits at $1. Teammates draw on that allocation, and the Help Center warns that complex projects use more credits, particularly when agents run in parallel. A promotional period with free Teammates usage comes first, and after it the credits start counting. Nobody has published what a typical teammate costs per week, and Perplexity has not published a per-task credit rate.

Who Gets Teammates, and Who Does Not

The research preview is narrow: individual Max subscribers on the web only, with Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max not included by default. Mobile and desktop apps are coming, with iOS mentioned, but no date has been given. If you already pay for Max, Teammates are available today; for a whole team, Perplexity is not selling you that yet.

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How Teammates Compare to Claude Duet and the Rest

The closest comparison is Claude Duet, Anthropic's proactive agent, which also runs around the clock. The difference is the starting point: Duet is framed as a proactive assistant that works alongside you, while Teammates are framed as coworkers that own a responsibility end to end. OpenAI's Dots and Microsoft's Copilot Cowork are organisation-first products; Perplexity is betting that individuals will pay first and organisations will follow. Perplexity is asking one person, not one company, to fund an AI colleague.

New teammates use Claude Opus 5.5 by default, the same model family at the centre of our flagship AI model comparison, and you can switch models per teammate or per task.

See also: Claude Commerce Agents explained on Anthropic's shopping agents, and the OpenAI Decisions API.

The Honest Limits

Teammates are a research preview: the feature is still under development and its behaviour may change. There is no public reliability data yet — no named customers, no published success rates, no independent test of how often a teammate gets a multi-step job right. Perplexity's own claim — its staff built around 10,000 teammates in the last 30 days — is company-reported, not independently verified. The company has also not said how many teammates one plan includes, or whether the $200 price is per person or per team.

There are practical risks too. A teammate with access to your Slack, GitHub and Gmail can do real damage if it misunderstands a job, and its memory across conversations means a bad instruction can persist. Perplexity's mitigations are real — isolated computers, encrypted credentials, human review before work ships — but they are mitigations, not guarantees. Start the way Perplexity suggests: one small, repeat job first, a clear role and a short brief, and watch its thread while you fix its mistakes early.

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Who Should Pay $200 a Month

The case for Teammates is strongest for one person with one kind of work: a repeating job that arrives through a tool, has a clear output, and eats hours every week. Triaging bug reports and tracking a pipeline are the jobs Perplexity names. If your work looks like that, and you already pay for Max, trying one teammate on one job costs nothing extra during the promotional period.

The case is weakest for everyone else. On Free or Pro, the upgrade is $200 a month for a preview product with no reliability data. For a whole team, the enterprise door is not open yet. And for mostly one-off creative tasks, a persistent teammate adds little over a normal chat session.

Key Takeaways

• Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026: persistent AI agents that own ongoing work, built on Perplexity Computer.
• Access is Max plan only — $200 a month, or $2,000 a year — for individual subscribers on the web. Enterprise is not included by default.
• Each teammate gets its own isolated computer and memory, watches tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear, and uses Claude Opus 5.5 by default.
• Max includes 10,000 Computer credits a month plus a one-time 35,000-credit bonus; Teammates usage is free during a promotional period, then draws on credits.
• No reliability data, success rates or maximum teammate count have been published, and Perplexity's internal usage figures are company-reported, not independently verified.
• Start with one small, repeat job, and watch its thread before giving it anything important.

Conclusion

Perplexity Teammates are the most direct test yet of the AI coworker idea: a persistent agent with its own computer, its own memory and a standing job, sold to individuals at $200 a month. What is missing is evidence — reliability data, real customer results, and a per-task cost anyone can budget against. Until that evidence exists, treat Teammates as an experiment: one teammate, one repeating job, close supervision, and a decision based on what it actually saves you.

Sources

• Perplexity Help Center, "Get started with Perplexity teammates", updated 5 Nov 2026 — https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/2026102601-perplexity-teammates
• Perplexity, "Perplexity launches Teammates, always-on AI agents for ongoing work", announcement dated 4 Nov 2026 — https://www.perplexity.ai/page/perplexity-launches-teammates-_5wGYYftTnSs82GhKAOsuw
• The Verge, on the $200-a-month Max requirement and the comparison with OpenAI Dots and Claude Duet — https://www.theverge.com