Perplexity Just Launched Teammates — AI Coworkers That Never Clock Out

 

Perplexity launched Teammates on November 5, 2026 — a team of always-on AI agents that take on ongoing work instead of waiting for your next prompt. Give one a job, like running a marketing campaign or chasing overdue invoices, and it keeps working until the result is ready for your review.

What Teammates actually are

Unlike a chatbot that answers one question and stops, a Teammate owns a responsibility around the clock. Each one gets a role, a standing brief, and rules for when to bring you in. It plans the tasks, pulls in more agents when the work grows, and follows through until there is something for you to review. Perplexity's own example is a small shop staffed "like a team of four," with teammates covering sales, ops, marketing, and finance.

What they can do

Teammates are built on Perplexity Computer, so they inherit your existing projects, skills, memory, and tool permissions. They can work in parallel — one chasing a deadline while another tracks competitors' prices — and hand tasks to each other. You follow each teammate's progress in its own thread, and they can message coworkers in Slack. They also ask for human approval at defined points, like before sending an offer or escalating a problem. Suggested roles include on-call engineer, legal research assistant, and storefront manager.

Pricing and availability

Teammates are available now, but only on the web and only for Perplexity Max subscribers — the $200-a-month plan ($167 a month on annual billing). It is a research preview for individual Max subscribers, with free usage during a promotional period before it starts consuming monthly credits. Desktop and mobile apps are coming soon. Perplexity says its own workspace has already run about 10,000 teammates in the last 30 days.

Why it matters

Teammates puts Perplexity directly against OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet in the race to build AI agents that do ongoing work, not one-off answers. The pitch is a shift from "write a prompt, get an answer" to "give a goal, get it done." The catch is the price: at $200 a month, this is a power-user tool for now, and as a research preview, its long-running reliability is still unproven. But if persistent agents work, the job description of an AI assistant is about to change.

Perplexity has been moving fast — it also launched a Decisions API in October — and Teammates is its boldest bet yet: not a smarter chatbot, but a staff of AI coworkers. Whether they earn their $200-a-month keep is the question every Max subscriber will now get to test.