Perplexity Opens Always-On Teammates Agents to Max Subscribers at $200 a Month

Perplexity has announced Teammates, a system of always-on artificial-intelligence agents built to hold continuing responsibilities at work rather than answer one-off requests, with availability at first limited to the web version of its $200-a-month Max plan. The feature runs inside Perplexity Computer, the company's platform for deploying agents to execute tasks. Its arrival puts Perplexity in the same contest over work-focused agents as OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which have already shown comparable systems.

According to Perplexity, Teammates "build on top" of Computer by adding the ability to collaborate and to complete "ongoing, large-scale work". Users assign each agent a specific role; the agents then work in parallel, follow activity and share tasks among themselves. Each operates in its own workspace, with a separate computer session and browser, and the user can track progress through individual threads in the Perplexity app, review what has been produced, take control of the environment or redirect the agent. Integration with Slack allows colleagues to forward tasks, so that agents can follow work channels and act when conversations and connected projects change.

Perplexity cites a division of labour in which one agent watches the indicators of a marketing campaign while another monitors sales activity or organises customer-service demands. It also points to operations and software development, including tracking deadlines, analysing data, identifying problems, running quality tests and monitoring security issues.

The Max requirement makes the launch markedly more expensive than the rival offerings described so far, a point The Verge makes in characterising Perplexity's version as "much more expensive". The plan costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year, which Olhar Digital renders as approximately R$1,092 and R$10,924 respectively. Perplexity's chief executive, Aravind Srinivas, set out the ambition in a post on X: "Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person."

The competitive framing is explicit in the accounts given by both outlets. OpenAI presented Dots in September, with assistants that can act continuously, learn from the user and carry out tasks through their own computer in the cloud. Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet in October, a tool that likewise employs proactive agents. On availability, Perplexity says native applications for mobile devices and computers are planned but have not been released; neither source gives a date for them, and neither sets out a timetable for widening access beyond the existing web release for Max subscribers.