Perplexity Launches Teammates, Always-On AI Agents for Ongoing Work
Perplexity has launched Teammates, a new set of always-on AI agents that take on ongoing jobs instead of answering one-off prompts. The company announced the feature on November 5, 2026, positioning it as a move from chatbots that wait for instructions to digital coworkers that keep working in the background.
A teammate is given a responsibility rather than a single task. Perplexity gives examples such as triaging an inbox, watching competitors, drafting replies to customer emails, and following up on stalled sales conversations. The agent plans the work, runs tasks in parallel, and brings results back for review when they are ready.
Built on Perplexity Computer
Teammates build on Perplexity Computer, the company’s existing system for assigning multi-step work to agents. Where Computer handles individual projects, Teammates are meant to own work that never really ends. According to Perplexity, a teammate remembers project goals, task history, and shared files across runs, so each new task builds on work already done.
The agents can also monitor connected tools and act without waiting for a fresh query. Perplexity describes a sales teammate that notices when a regular customer stops ordering, reviews the customer’s order history and support issues, and then prepares a relevant offer or flags problems to fix before reaching out. Teammates can follow up when circumstances change, schedule work, and apply feedback from earlier tasks to future ones.
Working alongside people and each other
Teammates are designed to fit into existing team workflows. A teammate can be added to a Slack channel, where colleagues can hand it work or ask for updates on a task. Teammates can also pass work to each other: one finds bugs on a website and hands its findings to another to prepare fixes.
Each teammate gets its own thread in the Perplexity app, so progress on separate assignments can be followed individually. Users can inspect a teammate’s work while it runs, take over its desktop, or redirect it. New teammates default to Claude Opus 5.5, and users can choose a different model for each teammate or for each task.
Perplexity says each teammate runs in a separate environment with its own browser session, and that saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely. Teammates use the projects, skills, and memory already available in Computer, and can connect plugins such as Slack, GitHub, and Gmail. For GitHub, users choose which repositories a teammate can access.
Availability and price
Teammates are launching as a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web, with iOS support planned later. Access requires a Perplexity Max subscription, which costs $200 a month, or $2,000 a year when billed annually. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max plans are not included by default, and enterprise users need to ask an admin to request access.
Perplexity says every Max plan includes free Teammates usage during a promotional period. After that period, Teammates draw on the monthly credits included with a Max plan. The company does not publish a per-task cost, and warns that parallel agents, large codebases, and frequent automations use more credits.
The same November 6 update that introduced Teammates also brought two other changes. Computer can now run fully on supported Apple-silicon Macs, keeping planning, reasoning, and file processing on the device, and a new Voice mode built on OpenAI’s gpt-live-1 lets Pro and Max users navigate Perplexity and start Computer tasks by voice.
Why it matters
Teammates put Perplexity in direct competition with OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet, two other agent systems aimed at ongoing workplace tasks. The difference is the price of entry: the rival offerings do not sit behind a $200 a month subscription, which makes Teammates the most expensive route into always-on agents so far.
Perplexity chief executive Aravind Srinivas framed the ambition in larger terms, writing on X that “over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person.” The company also says its own staff created about 10,000 teammates in 30 days during internal testing, a figure that shows enthusiasm inside Perplexity but says little about how the agents perform for paying customers.
For now, Teammates look most useful to Max subscribers who already run Computer daily and have recurring work to hand off. Everyone else can watch the research preview: if Perplexity expands access, publishes clearer pricing, and shows real results from early users, always-on agents could become a practical tool rather than a premium experiment.
