Perplexity launches Teammates, persistent AI agents for its $200 Max plan that own ongoing work

What Perplexity launched

Perplexity launched Teammates on 5 November 2026, a research preview of AI agents that are meant to own a piece of ongoing work rather than answer a single prompt. The company's help centre article, Get started with Perplexity teammates, describes the setup: a user gives a teammate a responsibility, such as a growth campaign or a market research project, and the teammate plans the tasks itself and keeps working on them between conversations until the result is ready for review. Chief executive Aravind Srinivas announced the launch on X the same day.

Each teammate has its own workspace with project memory and a task history, so it can pick up where it left off instead of starting fresh in every chat. Teammates can coordinate with one another, which lets a user split a larger job between several agents with separate roles. They can also be added to a Slack channel, where colleagues can hand them requests and receive updates, and they connect to outside tools including GitHub and Gmail. Coverage from TechRepublic and ITdaily describes the product as Perplexity's version of an AI colleague rather than an assistant.

Teammates are built on Perplexity Computer, the agent product the company launched in February 2026. Computer runs tasks in its own environment and routes work across 19 different AI models, choosing between them depending on the job. Teammates add persistence on top: where a Computer task ends when it is done, a teammate stays assigned to its area and continues to act on it over days or weeks. Perplexity calls the release a research preview, which signals that behaviour, limits and pricing may change before a general release.

Srinivas also gave a figure for internal use. He said Perplexity had created about 10,000 teammates inside its own workspace over the previous 30 days, which he put at roughly 20 times the company's headcount. That is a count of agents created in a month, not a measure of how many are active or how much work they do, and it comes from the company rather than an outside audit. It does show that Perplexity has been running the product on its own operations for some time before opening it to customers.

Who can use it and what it costs

Access is narrow at launch. Teammates are available only to individual subscribers on Perplexity's Max plan, and only on the web, with the iOS and desktop apps promised later. Most coverage reports that Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default, and Pro subscribers do not get the feature. Max costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year, and Teammates are not sold separately. One outlet reported that enterprise customers could use the feature, but that conflicts with the rest of the coverage and with the help centre description, so this story treats the launch as limited to individual Max accounts.

Pricing has two stages. During a promotional period, every Max plan includes free use of teammates. After that, teammates draw on the 10,000 credits a month that come with Max, the same pool used by Perplexity Computer. Perplexity has not said when the promotional period ends, how large the free allowance is, or how many credits a typical teammate uses in a day or a month, and it does not publish a per-teammate price. For heavy users that leaves the real monthly cost uncertain until the promotion ends and usage can be measured against the credit pool. Someone who runs several teammates at once, each checking sources and drafting updates every day, could use up the shared allowance faster than a person running occasional Computer tasks, and Perplexity has not said what happens to a teammate's work when the credits run out before the end of the month.

What it means and what to watch

Teammates are part of a wider move from chat assistants to agents that are given standing responsibilities. In the same week, Mistral put managed agents into public preview in Mistral Studio, aimed at companies building internal tools. Perplexity's version is closer to a hired assistant for one person: the user assigns a role, the agent keeps a memory of the project and reports back, and it can be dropped into a team's Slack channel. The difference between a prompt and a responsibility is the point of the product, and it is also where most of the open questions sit.

The next steps Perplexity has promised are mobile and desktop apps, and the company has not given dates. Other items to watch are the end of the promotional period and the credit cost of a teammate, any extension of the feature to Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts, and published controls for approvals and audit logs. This story will be updated when Perplexity announces any of these. More on the company is on the Perplexity page, and the site's AI agents section tracks agent launches from other vendors.

Questions people ask

What are Perplexity Teammates?

They are persistent AI agents, launched in research preview on 5 November 2026, that take on an ongoing responsibility, plan their own tasks and keep working between prompts, with their own memory and task history.

How much do Perplexity Teammates cost?

They are included only in the Max plan at $200 a month or $2,000 a year. Use is free during a promotional period and then draws on Max's 10,000 monthly credits; Perplexity has not said when the promotion ends.

Can businesses use Perplexity Teammates?

Not by default at launch. Most coverage reports the preview is limited to individual Max subscribers on the web, without Enterprise Pro or Enterprise Max accounts.

Sources

1. Get started with Perplexity teammates (Perplexity, 5 Nov 2026)
2. Perplexity Teammates Launches: How Its $200-a-Month AI Agents Work (TechRepublic, 5 Nov 2026)
3. Perplexity launches its own version of AI colleagues with Teammates (ITdaily, 6 Nov 2026)
4. Perplexity's Teammates Put Always-On AI Agents Behind a $200 Monthly Paywall (MLQ.ai, 6 Nov 2026)