Perplexity has launched Teammates, AI agents that stay on the job around the clock instead of answering a single prompt and stopping. They are open now to subscribers of its Max plan, on the web only.
A Teammate is given a job and keeps working on it without being asked again. It draws on the tasks, skills, memory and tools already set up in the user’s Perplexity account, and several Teammates can work together or send messages to human coworkers in Slack.
In its launch post on X, the company described Teammates as agents that “take on jobs” and “work proactively”. The access reportedly needs the $200-a-month Max plan, which makes Perplexity’s version far pricier than the comparable agents from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Perplexity says users can keep tabs on each Teammate’s progress through its own thread in the Perplexity app, and can also interact with them in Slack. Teammates sit on top of Perplexity Computer, the company’s system that sends agents to carry out tasks on a device. Perplexity says the difference is scale and duration: Computer handles a task, while Teammates are meant for large, continuing work, and each one can hold a different role at the same time.
Chief executive Aravind Srinivas wrote on X that he expects that “over time” every organisation will have hundreds of Teammates working for each person. That is a vision rather than a product spec, and Perplexity has not said how many Teammates one Max account can run.
The launch lands in a week of similar releases. Anthropic’s Claude Duet, an assistant that messages you first, is US-only for now, and OpenAI’s Dots is the other product Perplexity is measured against.
The price decides who will try it. At $200 a month, Teammates are aimed at companies and heavy professional users rather than casual ones.
The launch post and coverage give no date for cheaper plans or for phones, and no hands-on tests exist yet, so anyone thinking of paying for Max just for Teammates has little beyond Perplexity’s own description to go on.
