Perplexity has launched Teammates, which the company describes as personal agents designed for work that take on ongoing, long-running jobs. Perplexity's own blog post announcing them is dated 4 November 2026, and Aravind Srinivas announced the launch on X at 17:02 UTC on 5 November. The Verge frames the product as Perplexity taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with work-focused AI agents, and compares it to OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet as always-on agents running 24/7.
What Perplexity says Teammates do
According to Perplexity, Teammates build on top of Perplexity Computer and work inside it with the user's tools and files. A teammate coordinates Computer sessions and other teammates to keep projects moving, and it proactively monitors ongoing work and acts without waiting for a fresh query. Perplexity also says teammates remember project goals, task history and shared files across runs, with each new task building on prior work.
The company's product page describes a team of AI agents that own ongoing work, planning tasks, bringing in more agents when work grows, and following through until results are ready for review. It says each teammate keeps a single persistent thread that never closes, and that teammates work 24/7 in the background and notify the user when decisions need to be made.
The examples Perplexity gives
- In a sales example from the blog post, a teammate notices a regular customer stops transacting, reviews order history and support issues, and creates a relevant offer or flags issues.
- In an operations example, a teammate follows up on missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away.
- Teammates can pass work to each other, such as one finding bugs and another preparing fixes.
- A teammate can be added to a Slack channel, where colleagues can hand it work or ask for updates.
Controls and setup
Perplexity says each teammate runs in a separate environment with isolated browser sessions and encrypted credentials. It says users can review completed work, take over the desktop, or redirect a teammate as it works. Teammates use the same skills and plugins the user has installed, with the same permissions. Setup, as the blog post describes it, involves connecting tools such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail and describing the work the teammate should own.
Availability and price
Perplexity's product page says Teammates are available today for Max subscribers on the web, with iOS and Android coming. The blog post says Free and Pro subscribers can upgrade to Max in Settings > Account > Subscription, and that Perplexity will be expanding teammates' access and features in the coming weeks. The product page also says that for a promotional period, every Max plan will include free usage for teammates, and that after the promotional grant of credits, teammates use the credits already included with the Max plan.
Teammates require Perplexity's Max plan, which costs $200 a month, or $167 a month when billed annually. Pro costs $17 a month when billed annually.
Srinivas's figures from inside Perplexity
Srinivas posted on 5 November at 17:35 UTC that Perplexity has about 10,000 teammates (within the last 30 days) in its internal workspace, 20x its headcount, with about 1,000 active the day before. On 6 November at 03:41 UTC he posted that the median Perplexity employee gets 7x more agent-hours per week from teammates than in September, with 1 in 5 at 40+ agent-hours a week. These are the CEO's own statements about his company's product; FourWeekMBA notes that neither the blog post nor the launch post gives usage, customer or revenue figures for teammates, or says how many Computer credits a teammate consumes. The Verge quotes Srinivas on X envisioning every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person.
Where it comes from
Perplexity says it pioneered the first web-capable AI assistant in July 2025 in the Comet browser, and GIGAZINE reports Comet was made available to all users worldwide in October 2025. An earlier GIGAZINE headline, on Computer's release, described Perplexity Computer as a general-purpose digital worker that can route tasks to 19 AI models. ChainCatcher, via KuCoin, reports that Business Insider reported on Perplexity's internal Teammates tool in July 2026, when it was primarily used for debugging and system monitoring, and that the product has since expanded to marketing, sales, customer service and operations. ChainCatcher also describes Teammates as currently available in research preview for Max subscribers paying $200 per month; Perplexity's blog post and product page on Teammates don't use that label.
Sources
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KuCoin (2026) 'Perplexity Launches AI Teammates, Number Reaches 20 Times the Human Workforce', KuCoin, 6 November 2026, available at: https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/perplexity-launches-ai-teammates-number-reaches-20-times-human-workforce (Accessed: 6 November 2026).
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