Perplexity launches Teammates, long-running AI agents on the Max plan

A one-shot answer is not the same as a team member. Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026. These are always-on AI agents that keep working on a project across many sessions. They live on the Perplexity Max plan.

The Verge reports Max is priced at $200 a month. Perplexity's own blog post names the plan but does not state a price on that page. The Verge frames the launch as Perplexity's answer to OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet.

What a Teammate does

Each Teammate owns a running project. Perplexity says it can "plan and coordinate projects, switch gears as priorities change, and present results for review". The user watches progress in a thread inside the Perplexity app. One Teammate can hand work to another.

Teammates sit on top of Perplexity Computer. Computer is Perplexity's agent that runs tasks on the user's device. Teammates add memory across runs and proactive follow-up. Each Teammate has its own browser session and its own stored credentials.

The product can work inside Slack. The user adds a Teammate to a channel. Colleagues can then hand it work or ask for updates there, Perplexity says. Perplexity lists Gmail and GitHub as other tool integrations.

Perplexity lists four work areas it is aimed at: marketing campaigns and SEO, sales outreach, customer support, and operations like deadline tracking and vendor coordination. These are the company's own named use cases.

What is new, and what is not

CEO Aravind Srinivas posted on X about the launch. He said that "over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person". That is the company's own framing of where it is heading.

A reader should check three things against the hype. First: the product launches on web and comes to iOS "for Max subscribers" later, with no date. Second: Perplexity has not published a number for how long a Teammate can run before it stops. Third: the company has not published a cost per task or a cost cap.

A buyer looking at Dots, Duet and Teammates now has three persistent-agent tools from three vendors. Each one locks the user into that vendor's chat, memory and browser. The switching cost is a real part of the choice. The Verge reports the gate for Teammates is a $200 a month Max plan. That is higher than the comparable Dots and Duet tiers.

Perplexity also published an agent orchestration guide on the same blog on 5 November 2026. That guide is a how-to, not a product announcement.

Source

Perplexity, "Teammates are Agents for Complex, Ongoing Work". The Verge, "Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work".