Short answer: Perplexity Teammates are personal AI agents for complex, ongoing work. Perplexity's official blog is dated 4 November 2026; press coverage and CEO Aravind Srinivas's rollout post landed on 5 November 2026. Each teammate takes a high-level goal or standing responsibility inside Perplexity Computer, watches connected tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear, and returns finished work for review. The research preview is for individual Max subscribers on the web, at about USD 200 a month.

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Perplexity Teammates: AI agents for ongoing work

Key facts

What did Perplexity announce?

Perplexity introduced Teammates, personal agents built for complex, ongoing work rather than one-off prompt sessions. The company’s launch blog is dated 4 November 2026 (Perplexity blog). On 5 November 2026, CEO Aravind Srinivas posted that Teammates were rolling out to Max users on the web, with native mobile and desktop apps coming soon, and press outlets including The Verge and Digital Trends covered the launch the same day.

The Verge places Teammates in the same always-on work-agent category as OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet: agents that keep working around the clock on standing jobs (The Verge). Perplexity’s product page frames them as agents designed for work (Perplexity Teammate product page).

What do Perplexity Teammates actually do?

Goals instead of one-off prompts

You assign a teammate a responsibility—triaging bugs, tracking metrics, running a marketing loop or researching a market—and it plans the tasks, follows through and brings finished work back for review (Perplexity blog; Perplexity help). Digital Trends quotes Srinivas calling them persistent coworkers that take over responsibilities and get tasks done end to end (Digital Trends).

Built on Perplexity Computer

Teammates build on Perplexity Computer. They work inside Computer with its tools and files, coordinate Computer sessions and other teammates, and start from the Projects, Memory, Skills, connectors, files and past sessions you already have (Perplexity blog). They are a distinct product from Computer: Computer remains the project and session runtime; Teammates add standing roles that persist across jobs.

Own desktop, monitoring and teamwork

Perplexity’s help center describes multi-agent orchestration: each teammate has its own desktop computer and browser, can break a large goal into parallel tasks, check results and return finished work such as a report or pull request (Perplexity help). Teammates watch connected tools including Slack, GitHub and Linear, act when something changes, keep memory between conversations, let you choose a model, share context in Projects and can be tagged as apps in those tools (Perplexity help). You can review work, take over a desktop or redirect mid-task, and add a teammate to a Slack channel so coworkers can hand it work (Digital Trends).

How much do Teammates cost and who can use them?

Teammates are a research preview for individual Perplexity Max subscribers on the web. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default, and Free or Pro users must upgrade (Perplexity help). The Verge and Digital Trends both put Max at about USD 200 a month (The Verge; Digital Trends). The annual Max figure was not re-verified from the Perplexity Max help article in this update, so we leave the billed-annually price as unknown here.

Native mobile and desktop apps, including iOS, are described as coming soon (Digital Trends). Credit burn per teammate day, a published teammate cap and Enterprise access timing are not established in the sources we checked.

What does this mean for individual Max users?

If you already live in Perplexity Projects and Computer, Teammates are the step from “run this project” to “own this job.” Examples called out in coverage include marketing campaigns and ads, sales follow-ups, support summaries, operations chases, bug triage, QA loops, security monitoring, data analysis and A/B tests (Digital Trends; Perplexity blog).

The practical habit matches our chief of staff template and change monitoring skill: one standing brief, only the tools that job needs, and approval rules for sends, merges and money.

What does this mean for businesses and teams?

Srinivas has said that over time Perplexity envisions every organisation having hundreds of teammates working for each person (The Verge). For teams that already use Slack, GitHub and Linear, a teammate in a channel can take handoffs and act when tickets or alerts appear (Perplexity help; Digital Trends).

Important limits for company buyers: the preview starts with individual Max subscribers, not Enterprise Pro or Enterprise Max by default (Perplexity help). Digital Trends notes that rivals such as OpenAI’s workspace agents and Microsoft’s Copilot-class products aim more squarely at organisations, while Perplexity is opening with individuals first (Digital Trends). Related patterns on this site include Snowflake CoWork and ChatGPT Work.

How do Teammates compare with OpenAI Dots, Claude Duet and Computer?

OpenAI Dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer, rolling out first to ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. Claude Duet is Anthropic’s proactive work agent in a research preview on Claude Pro and Max in the US. Teammates sit in the same always-on category, with Perplexity’s edge in Computer-native Projects, search-heavy workflows and connectors such as Slack, GitHub and Linear (The Verge; Perplexity help).

Perplexity Computer remains the underlying agent runtime for end-to-end projects; Teammates add persistent roles on top of it rather than replacing it (Perplexity blog). See Perplexity Teammates vs OpenAI Dots and Perplexity Teammates vs Claude Duet, or our business vs personal agents guide.

What should you watch next?

Watch for native iOS, mobile and desktop apps leaving “coming soon,” any published teammate or credit limits, and whether Enterprise Pro or Max get default access (Digital Trends; Perplexity help). Also watch how Max credit usage behaves when several teammates run in parallel.

We will keep the Perplexity Teammates profile current. For more agent launches, see Claude Duet, OpenAI Dots and Computer on Mac, or browse the agent directory.

Timeline: how did we get here?

Agent snapshot: what do we know so far?

Facts below come from the agent profiles in our directory, each linked to its source.

Perplexity Teammates at a glance

Full Perplexity Teammates profile

OpenAI Dots at a glance

Full OpenAI Dots profile

Claude Duet at a glance

Full Claude Duet profile

Related comparisons and guides

Agents in this story

Perplexity Teammates

business agent

Perplexity's personal AI agents for work: you give high-level goals and ongoing responsibilities, and each teammate plans and finishes the work on its own desktop inside Perplexity Computer, watching tools like Slack, GitHub and Linear and handing results back for review.

OpenAI Dots

business agent

Always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with its own cloud computer, working towards your goals 24/7.

Claude Duet

business agent

Anthropic's proactive agent for professionals and small business owners: it briefs you each morning, watches your connected apps, takes on tasks in its own cloud computer and asks before it acts.

Frequently asked questions

What are Perplexity Teammates?

Personal AI agents from Perplexity for complex, ongoing work. Each teammate takes a standing goal inside Perplexity Computer, watches connected tools and returns finished work for review.

When did Teammates launch?

Perplexity's official blog is dated 4 November 2026. Press coverage and CEO Aravind Srinivas's Max web rollout post were on 5 November 2026.

How much do Teammates cost?

They require an individual Perplexity Max subscription. Max is about USD 200 a month per The Verge and Digital Trends. The annual Max price was not re-verified from the Max help article in this update.

Who can use Teammates today?

Individual Max subscribers on the web, in a research preview. Free and Pro users must upgrade. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. Native apps are coming soon.

How are Teammates different from Perplexity Computer?

Computer is Perplexity's agent runtime for end-to-end projects and sessions. Teammates are a distinct product on top: persistent roles that keep ongoing responsibilities, coordinate Computer sessions and other teammates, and remember across jobs.

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