Perplexity's Teammates Preview Puts Always-On Work Agents Behind a $200-a-Month Max Plan
Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal agents meant to plan and carry out ongoing, large-scale work on top of Perplexity Computer. The Verge, which compared the product to OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet, says it requires Perplexity's Max plan at $200 a month. Perplexity's help documentation describes an initial research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web; Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. The company has said a native iOS version is coming soon.
Always-on work agents are arriving as a premium SKU, not a free chat feature. Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal agents that the company says can plan and coordinate ongoing projects, work inside Perplexity Computer, and present results for review. The Verge on November 5 framed them as Perplexity's answer to OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet, with a steeper door price: a Max subscription at $200 a month.
Perplexity's help documentation describes the launch as a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default; enterprise users are told to ask an organization admin. Max itself is listed at $200 a month or $2,000 a year, with the annual option available on the web app. The company's blog, dated November 4, says Teammates are launching on the web and soon on iOS for Max subscribers.
What Perplexity says they do#
Each Teammate can take a role — the examples Perplexity and The Verge give include research, monitoring and other long-running jobs — and several can work at once. They get their own threads so a user can inspect and redirect the work, can use projects, skills and memory already stored in Perplexity Computer, and can interact in Slack. The Verge quoted chief executive Aravind Srinivas saying on X that, over time, the company envisions every organization having hundreds of teammates working for each person. That is a vision statement, not a usage metric.
Max subscriptions include a monthly credit allocation that Teammates can consume, according to Perplexity's help pages. Complex or parallel agent work, large files and frequent automations can use those credits faster. Behavior may change during the preview.
Limits#
- We read The Verge in full. Perplexity's blog and help-center pages were only partly available this run (the blog fetch timed out; help-center details are from retrieved documentation snippets), so preview-scope wording is attributed to those help pages and to The Verge.
- Enterprise access "not included by default" is Perplexity's current preview rule, not a permanent exclusion.
- "Soon on iOS" is Perplexity's stated plan; Engadget described the feature as already on iOS, which we are not treating as overriding the company's blog.
- Srinivas's "hundreds of teammates" line is an aspiration reported by The Verge, not evidence of current usage.
- We have not used Teammates or measured credit burn.