Perplexity launches always-on AI Teammates for work at $200 a month

Perplexity has launched Teammates, a feature that assigns AI agents, meaning AI that completes a task with several steps for you, not just one answer, to ongoing work. It is available now on the $200-a-month Max plan, and not on any lower tier.

What happened

Perplexity announced Teammates on 5 November. The feature lets you give an AI agent a goal, such as monitoring a marketing campaign or researching competitors, and leave it to work while you focus on something else. Each agent keeps its own conversation thread so you can follow what it is doing and review results at any point.

Teammates builds on Perplexity Computer, the company's existing agent platform. Agents can draw on projects, files, and memory already stored there, so they do not start every assignment without context. You can also interact with agents through Slack, where colleagues can add instructions or check on progress.

Perplexity says you can take over an agent's desktop session directly if you need to intervene. Pricing is $200 per month or $2,000 per year. At launch, access is for individual Max subscribers on the web. Mobile and desktop apps are coming later, though no date has been announced.

What it means for your work

• You can run several agents at once on separate tasks, for example one tracking campaign results while another prepares a competitor report.
• Agents remember context from earlier work in Perplexity Computer, so you do not have to re-explain a project each time.
• Colleagues can contribute to an agent's task through Slack without needing to open Perplexity directly.
• You stay in control: you can monitor progress, give feedback, redirect the agent, or step in and take over the session.
• Perplexity notes that Anthropic's Claude Duet also targets ongoing workplace tasks, so Teammates is entering a competitive space.

What to do now

1. Check whether your Perplexity subscription is the Max plan. Teammates is not available on lower tiers.
2. If you are on Max, open Perplexity on the web to find Teammates. Mobile and desktop support has not launched yet.
3. Before connecting any app, list exactly what the agent needs to read or change. Give it only those permissions, nothing broader.
4. Decide as a team which actions need a human to approve first, especially sending messages, editing shared files, or changing live systems.
5. Start with one low-risk task, such as a research summary, so you can see how the agent handles it before giving it access to more sensitive work.

Teammates is a real step toward delegating multi-step work to AI, but the $200-a-month price means most teams will want to test it carefully before committing.