Perplexity Teammates: 24/7 AI Agents for Max Subscribers
Perplexity has moved from answering questions to owning them. On November 4, 2026 it launched Teammates, a set of personal AI agents that run 24/7 inside Perplexity Computer, monitor ongoing work, act when something changes and bring finished results back for your review — but they are locked behind the $200-a-month Max subscription.
- Launch date — Perplexity announced Teammates on November 4, 2026, launching on the web first and 'soon on iOS' for Max subscribers.
- Price — Teammates are exclusive to Perplexity Max at $200 per month ($2,000 per year, shown as $167 per month billed annually), which includes 10,000 monthly Computer credits.
- What they do — Each teammate owns a piece of ongoing work, runs 24/7 in its own isolated environment, monitors changes and reports progress for review.
- Slack integration — Teammates can be added to Slack channels, message coworkers, and hand work to other teammates.
What Teammates actually are
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Standard AI assistants only work while you are staring at a prompt box. Close the laptop and the assistant stops existing. Teammates are Perplexity's answer to that: persistent agents built on top of Perplexity Computer, its cloud-based agentic workspace. You delegate an outcome — "keep the weekly pipeline report current" — and the teammate plans the work, coordinates Computer sessions and even other teammates, and presents results when it is done. Perplexity describes them as agents for "complex, ongoing work" across marketing, sales, support, operations and finance.
Each teammate gets its own role and its own entry in the Computer sidebar, so you can see what it is doing and what it has finished. They run in separate isolated environments with their own browser sessions, and saved credentials are encrypted. You can review completed work, take over the desktop, or redirect a teammate mid-task.
Proactive monitoring, not just prompt-response
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The shift that matters is proactive follow-through. A sales teammate, for example, notices when a regular customer stops transacting, reviews order history and support issues, drafts a relevant offer and flags open problems before anyone reaches out. An operations teammate follows up on missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away. Teammates also remember past work and apply your feedback — if you tell one that an agency needs two weeks of notice, it factors that into future schedules.
They can work across teams: add a teammate to a Slack channel and colleagues can hand it work or ask for status updates there. Teammates can also pass work to each other — one finds bugs on a website and hands the findings to another to prepare fixes.
Availability and price: the Max paywall
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Teammates launched on November 4, 2026 on the web, with iOS access following soon, and they are exclusively available to Perplexity Max subscribers. Max costs $200 per month or $2,000 per year (about $167 per month when billed annually) and bundles 10,000 monthly Computer credits plus 35,000 bonus credits, frontier models and the highest usage limits. Free and Pro subscribers can upgrade in Settings. Perplexity says Teammates are free to use during a promotional period and will eventually draw on your credits, but has not said when that changes or how many credits a teammate consumes.
How to set one up
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Setup is deliberately short: sign in on the web, select Teammates in the left navigation, name the teammate after the work it should own, connect the tools it needs (Slack, GitHub, Gmail plugins, with per-repository access for GitHub), describe where the work comes from and what it should deliver, then assign it to a project with an initial task such as researching a market or investigating bugs. Teammates build on Computer's existing Projects, skills and memory, so a teammate can reuse an existing account-research project and an outreach skill.
What this means for agent users
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Teammates are part of a clear pattern: OpenAI's Dots, Anthropic's Claude Duet and now Perplexity's Teammates all treat the agent as a coworker with a job rather than a chat window you type into. The practical differences are price and placement — Teammates sit inside a search-and-research product and lean on its citations, while costing $200 a month, which puts them out of reach for casual users. If you already pay for Max and have recurring work that survives contact with a checklist, delegating it to a teammate is the obvious first experiment. If you are on Pro, the question is whether the ongoing-work features justify the roughly tenfold price jump.
Frequently asked questions
Launch date
Perplexity announced Teammates on November 4, 2026, launching on the web first and 'soon on iOS' for Max subscribers.
Price
Teammates are exclusive to Perplexity Max at $200 per month ($2,000 per year, shown as $167 per month billed annually), which includes 10,000 monthly Computer credits.
What they do
Each teammate owns a piece of ongoing work, runs 24/7 in its own isolated environment, monitors changes and reports progress for review.
Slack integration
Teammates can be added to Slack channels, message coworkers, and hand work to other teammates.
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