Perplexity's new AI 'teammates' never stop working. Getting one costs $200 a month.
Perplexity launched Teammates on November 4, always-on agents that run marketing, sales and support work inside its Computer product. They land on the web now, only for the $200-a-month Max plan.
Perplexity picked a Wednesday to launch something it’s calling a teammate. Not a chatbot, not a search answer. An agent that keeps working on a project after you’ve closed the tab.
The company’s blog post, published November 4, describes Teammates as personal agents built to “take on complex, ongoing work”: running a marketing calendar, chasing sales leads, triaging support tickets, or keeping an operations checklist on schedule. They sit inside Perplexity Computer, the browser-automation product Perplexity shipped earlier this year, and they don’t wait for you to ask again. A sales teammate notices when a regular customer stops buying, checks the order history, and drafts an offer before you’ve noticed the gap yourself.
That’s the pitch, anyway. What’s actually new is narrower than the press release makes it sound, and the price tag is where this gets real.
What a teammate actually does
Perplexity’s post lays out four jobs for Teammates: marketing, sales, customer support and operations, with finance mentioned once in passing. Each one gets a concrete example. The support teammate reviews the previous day’s complaints, flags cases that need the CEO’s attention, drafts the replies, and tracks each one until it closes. The operations teammate watches deadlines and nudges the team when something is 72 hours from due.
What separates this from a one-off Computer session is memory and delegation. A teammate remembers project goals and task history across runs, so a lesson you teach it once (“this agency needs two weeks’ notice”) carries into the next schedule it builds. Teammates can also hand work to each other: one finds a bug on a website, another prepares the fix. And they go where people already are, including a Slack channel, where colleagues can ask a teammate for a status update directly.
Each teammate runs in its own environment with its own browser session, and Perplexity says saved credentials are encrypted. You can take over the desktop or redirect it mid-task, which matters, because an agent reading your Slack and your GitHub repos is also an agent that can be wrong in your Slack and your GitHub repos.
Who actually gets one
Teammates are live on the web now. iOS is “soon,” per the announcement, with no date attached. Here’s the part that matters more than the feature list: Perplexity’s help center prices the Max plan, the tier that comes with full Teammates access, at $200 a month or $2,000 a year. Free and Pro subscribers can upgrade from Settings, but Teammates themselves aren’t described as available on Pro.
That’s ten times Perplexity Pro’s $20 a month. It’s also the same number OpenAI and Anthropic both land on for their top consumer tiers: ChatGPT Pro starts at $100 to $200 depending on which report you read, and Claude Max starts at $100. Perplexity isn’t undercutting anyone here. It’s charging what the other two frontier labs charge for similar always-on access, and betting that bundling four frontier models plus 10,000 monthly Computer credits into one subscription beats paying each company separately.
| Plan | Price | Always-on agent included |
|---|---|---|
| Perplexity Pro | $20/month | No, upgrade required for Teammates |
| Perplexity Max | $200/month ($167/month billed yearly) | Teammates, web now, iOS soon |
| ChatGPT Pro | $100-$200/month, reports vary | Dots |
| ChatGPT Business Premium | reported around $125/month | Dots |
| Claude Max | from $100/month | Anthropic hasn’t shipped an equivalent always-on agent yet |
The ChatGPT prices above come from third-party reporting, not an OpenAI price page, because OpenAI's own Dots announcement didn't list a monthly figure. Check each company's current pricing page before paying.
How it stacks against the other always-on agents
Teammates is Perplexity’s answer to a race that’s already crowded. OpenAI launched Dots in September, also an always-on agent that runs on its own cloud computer and reaches thousands of apps through plugins. Dots ships inside ChatGPT’s Pro and Business Premium tiers. Meta’s Muse, which launched even earlier, aims at a similar space from the consumer side.
My read: the pitch that actually separates Teammates from Dots isn’t the price, it’s the org chart. OpenAI sells you one agent that does more things. Perplexity is selling several agents that specialize and pass work between each other, closer to how a small team splits a project than how one assistant juggles a to-do list. Whether that’s a real advantage or just a different way to describe the same automation depends on whether the hand-offs actually work without a human checking every pass, and Perplexity’s launch post doesn’t show that happening with real customers yet, only hypothetical examples.
I’d also note what’s missing from the announcement: no error rate, no incident the company is answering to (unlike Dots, which published a line admitting “Dots can still make mistakes”), and no pricing detail for teams beyond the $200 Max tier. That’s typical for a launch post. It’s also exactly the gap that showed up with Muse and with Dots within weeks of each going live, so the first real test of Teammates will be what users report once they’ve connected it to a live Slack channel and a real GitHub repo.
What to watch
Perplexity says it will expand Teammates’ “access and features in the coming weeks.” The iOS release date, any Pro-tier access, and whether Teammates gets its own public incident report the way Dots did, are the three things worth checking back on.
Related: Otter.ai’s 27-language expansion is a smaller example of the same gap between a launch headline and what’s actually shipped.
Sources
Note on sources: I read Perplexity’s own announcement and its Max help page in full. The Verge’s piece is used for independent confirmation and framing; the third-party pricing figures for ChatGPT and Claude in the table above come from reporting cited inline, not from reading OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s own price pages directly.
- Teammates are agents for complex, ongoing work, Perplexity, November 4, 2026.
- Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work, The Verge, November 5, 2026.
- Perplexity Max, Perplexity Help Center.