Perplexity gets AI coworkers that take over tasks on the job

What's new

On November 5, 2026, Perplexity launched Teammates. These are AI agents that keep working for you instead of just answering one question at a time. The idea is that you give them a recurring task, and they handle it on an ongoing basis.

Teammates builds on Perplexity Computer. The agents inherit your Projects, Skills and Memory (Perplexity's features for collections of tasks, skills and memory), your connectors (links to other services), your files and your tool permissions. They also remember previous runs. You can assign them tasks and hand off recurring requests via Slack. The sources also mention GitHub, Gmail and third-party APIs (technical doorways into other services).

What's smart

The agents can act on their own initiative when something changes. If something requires a decision, or if a defined exception occurs, they pass the matter on to a human.

Each agent runs in its own isolated desktop and browser environment. You can watch and step in if it is about to do something wrong. Access to third-party APIs goes through a vault for credentials.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, according to Startup Fortune, described the agents as persistent colleagues that should take responsibility and see tasks through to the end. According to Digital Trends, he mentioned examples such as triaging software bugs, running quality tests, monitoring security, analyzing data and managing A/B tests (tests that pit two versions against each other).

Cheaper or better?

Teammates requires Perplexity Max. It costs $200 a month with monthly billing or $167 a month with annual billing. Free and Pro users have to upgrade, and according to Startup Fortune, there are no plans to roll it out to those two tiers. No separate price has been published for Teammates: the feature draws on the Max subscription's monthly allotment of Computer credits. Startup Fortune talks about a per-agent price, but that does not match MLQ.ai's information.

For businesses, Enterprise Pro ($40 per seat per month) and Enterprise Max do not get the feature by default. Organizations must request broader access.

According to Digital Trends, competitors include OpenAI's workspace agents, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, Grok Bot and Anthropic's Claude Cowork. The sources include no price comparison. There are also no independent measurements of how reliable the agents are, how often they complete tasks, or how many errors they make. The Forrester study that MLQ.ai refers to shows that most companies are still only running pilot projects with agentic AI because of challenges with governance, control and trust.

It is also only a research preview on the web for individual Max subscribers. iOS, mobile and desktop have been announced as coming. The sources do not say whether it is available in Denmark or the EU.

What it's good for

Perplexity itself points to sales agents that review customer inquiries and prepare outreach (first contact with customers), and operations agents that track deadlines and vendors. Other examples include maintaining research notes and producing recurring reporting.

In practice, it suits tasks that repeat and where a human only needs to approve the important steps. For an ordinary user, the price is a high barrier. For a small business or a team, it could be a way to try out an AI coworker, but with the caveat that reliability has not yet been independently measured.