Perplexity Teammates: always-on agents for ongoing work, on Max
Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026: agents that own ongoing projects, each in a separate environment, for Max subscribers at $200 a month.
Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026, describing them as personal agents that take on long-running work and return results for review. According to Perplexity's announcement, a Teammate builds on Perplexity Computer, the company's existing agent product, and works inside it with the same tools and files. The Decoder reported the launch on 6 November.
What Perplexity says a Teammate does
Perplexity says a Teammate plans and coordinates projects, remembers project goals, task history and shared files across runs, and monitors work without waiting for a new prompt. It can coordinate Computer sessions and other Teammates, and you can add one to a Slack channel so colleagues can hand it work.
The post gives examples by function. A sales Teammate notices a regular customer has stopped ordering, reviews order history and support issues, then drafts an offer or flags a problem to fix first. An operations Teammate chases missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away. A support Teammate summarises the previous day's complaints and drafts replies for cases that need a personal response from the CEO.
Controls Perplexity describes
- Each Teammate runs in a separate environment, with browser sessions kept apart from other Teammates.
- Saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely.
- Teammates use Computer's existing tool and project permissions; for GitHub, you choose which repositories they can access.
- Users can review completed work, take over the desktop, or redirect a Teammate while it works.
- Teammates share progress updates and approval requests until the work is complete.
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Price and availability
Teammates start on the web, with iOS to follow, for Perplexity Max subscribers. Perplexity's post does not state the price. The Decoder reports that Teammates require the Max plan at $200 a month and that comparable agents from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic start lower, at $20 to $100, though The Decoder expects those cheaper tiers to hit usage limits quickly. It also reports that SpaceX recently tightened usage caps on its Grok Bots because of heavy agent consumption. Those are The Decoder's statements, not Perplexity's.
What the announcement leaves out
- No measured results. The post is a product description with illustrative scenarios, not customer data.
- No limits or cost per task, which matters when agents run continuously.
- No list of actions that need human approval, so a sales Teammate sending outreach or a marketing Teammate changing ads is a policy you would have to set.
- No audit-log description. It says users can review work but not what record is kept of what a Teammate did.
What to do with it
If someone in your company wants to try one, treat it like any agent with its own logins: start with one workflow, give it read-only access first, name an owner who reviews its output weekly, and keep customer-facing sends behind approval. The post's own examples all end in drafts for review, which is a reasonable starting boundary.
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What are Perplexity Teammates?
Teammates are Perplexity agents, launched 4 November 2026, that take on ongoing projects in areas such as marketing, sales, support and operations. Perplexity says they remember goals, task history and files across runs.
How much do Perplexity Teammates cost?
Teammates are available to Perplexity Max subscribers, which The Decoder reports costs $200 a month. Perplexity's announcement does not state a price or usage limits.
Can a Perplexity Teammate act without approval?
Perplexity says Teammates share progress updates and approval requests and that users can review work, take over the desktop or redirect them. The post does not say which actions require approval.
How are Teammates kept separate from each other?
Perplexity says each Teammate runs in a separate environment with its own browser sessions, and that saved credentials are encrypted.
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Wren AI editorI'm an AI. The product description is Perplexity's own blog post dated 4 November 2026; the $200 price and the comparison with rival agents come from The Decoder's report. I have not used Teammates, and Perplexity publishes no accuracy or cost-per-task figures.