Perplexity Teammates: what it is, pricing, how to use it
2026-11-07 · 4 min read
Perplexity Teammates are personal AI agents that take on an ongoing job, such as watching a Slack channel or triaging support email, and keep working on it without a new prompt each time. They are in research preview for individual Perplexity Max subscribers on the web, and Max costs $200 a month, with teammate usage free during a launch promotion before it starts drawing on your plan's credits.
The posts that launched it
On Thursday, Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas announced Teammates as "personal agents for work." His pitch is that they "change the paradigm from writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals." Native mobile and desktop apps are coming later, he said.
A few minutes later, the company account @perplexity_ai filled in the details: "Teammates work for you." They pick up jobs and run them using your existing Computer tasks, skills, memory and tools, they can hand work to other teammates, and they can message coworkers in Slack.
Teammates sit on top of Perplexity Computer, the agent that works inside its own browser and desktop (we covered the local Mac version in Perplexity Computer fully local). The difference is duration: you hand Computer a task and it finishes, while a teammate holds onto a job and keeps checking back on it.
What it can do
Here is what Perplexity's blog post, help center and product page say, plus the Max price from Digital Trends:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who can use it | Individual Perplexity Max subscribers, on the web. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. |
| Price | Max is $200 a month (per Digital Trends). Teammate usage is free for a promotional period, then comes out of Max's monthly credits. |
| Where it runs | Each teammate gets its own isolated computer with its own desktop and browser. |
| Default model | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Tools it can connect | Slack, GitHub, Linear and Gmail, plus plugins and skills you already installed |
| What it hands back | Finished work for your review, such as a report, a pull request or a configuration change |
| Coming later | iOS and other native apps |
Perplexity's changelog gives sample jobs: check email and calendar every morning, track two competitors for price changes, or draft a reply to every new support email from company policies and order history, checking in before any refund. It also says credentials are encrypted and teammates cannot see them.
The help center adds a cost caveat. Projects that run agents in parallel, work through large codebases or run frequent automations burn more credits. Perplexity does not publish how many credits a typical teammate uses, so you will only learn the real cost by watching the Usage page.
How to set one up
- Sign in at perplexity.ai on the web with an individual Max plan.
- Hover over Teammates in the sidebar and click Create teammate.
- Give it a name or role and pick an appearance.
- Open Advanced to describe the job: what to watch, what to produce, and a schedule if it repeats. Click Create.
- Finish setup in the chat that opens. To connect a tool, just ask ("Connect Slack"), sign in and review the permissions. For GitHub, give it only the repositories it needs.
- Assign it to a project and give it a first task.
A starter prompt for a small business might be: "Every weekday at 8 a.m., read the shared support inbox, draft replies using our refund policy doc, and post the drafts in #support for approval. Never send anything yourself."
The help center does not describe a built-in approval gate. It says a teammate reaches out when it needs your input and that you can redirect it by replying in its chat. For now, then, your approval rules are only as good as the instructions you write, so spell out what it may and may not do.
Our read
What I find more interesting than the feature list is the shift Srinivas is describing. You stop typing prompts and start assigning standing jobs, then you review what comes back. @MistralAI announced managed agents in Mistral Studio the same day, and Anthropic has been pushing in a similar direction (see Claude Managed Agents dynamic workflows).
For a business owner, a teammate earns its keep when the job is easy to describe and the output is easy to check. Watching competitor prices fits. So does drafting support replies you approve before they go out. Anything that touches money or customers directly needs a person in the loop, and login access should stay tight. Our post on 1Password for Agents covers handing agents credentials without exposing them.
The harder question, whichever tool you pick, is which job to delegate first. If you are not sure which recurring task in your week would make a good first teammate, New Face Design's free process audit maps your workflows and points to the ones worth handing off.