Perplexity Teammates: AI Coworkers for $200 a Month

Perplexity stopped asking you to write better prompts. On November 5, 2026, the company launched Teammates, persistent AI agents that take on a job and keep working on it until it is ready for review. You give one a role, a standing brief, and rules for when to bring you in, and it owns that work around the clock.

The idea is simple and the price is not. Teammates only works if you pay for Perplexity Max, the company's top tier, at $200 a month, or $167 a month if you pay for a full year up front. Below: what Teammates does, what that subscription buys, and the open questions that decide whether to pay now or wait.

What Perplexity Teammates actually is

Teammates are personal agents for ongoing work. That word, ongoing, is the whole pitch. A normal chatbot answers one question and forgets the conversation. A teammate keeps the goal, the files, and the history, and keeps working between your check-ins. Perplexity's chief executive Aravind Srinivas announced the launch on X on November 5, describing the shift as moving from "writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals," according to Digital Trends.

The feature builds directly on Perplexity Computer, the agent system Perplexity launched in February 2026. Computer ran tasks in temporary sessions that ended when the job ended. Teammates keep the thread alive: they draw on your existing Projects, Memory, Skills, connectors, files, and past sessions, so a returning agent does not start from zero. Each teammate gets its own thread in the Perplexity app, where you can follow its work and step in.

Setting one up means writing three things: the role it owns, a standing brief that describes the job, and the rules for when it should escalate to you instead of acting alone. Perplexity's own product page puts it plainly: "Each teammate gets a role, a standing brief, and rules for when to bring you in." That escalation rule is the most important part of the setup. Without it, an agent that works around the clock is an agent that can make mistakes around the clock.

What a teammate does all day

Perplexity's product page walks through four example roles, and they read like job descriptions rather than feature lists. A Sales teammate looks for new opportunities in customer inquiries, past purchases, and unfinished conversations, then prepares outreach and quotes and follows through on replies. When a regular customer goes quiet, it checks past orders, emails, and support issues to work out why before drafting an offer.

An Ops teammate keeps deadlines, checklists, vendors, and paperwork on track for every project. Perplexity's example is concrete: a deadline 72 hours away with items still missing, and the teammate chases them. A Marketing teammate runs social posts, email, ads, SEO, and review replies, writes a weekly creative brief, and checks competitors' prices and promotions every week. A Finance teammate keeps invoices, collections, and job margins up to date, and drafts a reminder when an invoice passes 15, 30, or 45 days overdue.

Teammates also work where your team already works. You can add one to a Slack channel, where coworkers hand it work and it watches for changes it has been told to act on. Agents can pass tasks to each other, so a marketing teammate can hand a contract question to a legal review step rather than guessing. Each teammate runs in its own environment, with its own desktop, browser, and cookies, and you can review its work, take over its desktop, or redirect it mid-task. Perplexity says saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely, which is the company's own description rather than an independently verified claim.

The pitch is not a smarter chatbot. It is closer to hiring: you are giving a software agent standing permission to act inside your tools. Those controls are the difference between a useful coworker and a liability.

The price: $200 a month, or $167 if you pay for the year

Teammates has no price of its own. It is a Max feature, and Max is the gate. Perplexity's pricing, checked on November 6, 2026, looks like this:

The two Max figures describe the same plan under different billing. The Verge reported the $200 monthly price, as cited by Digital Trends and the Silicon Report, while Perplexity's own plan picker shows $167 a month or equivalent when billed annually. The annual route saves $396 a year against the monthly rate, but it means paying $2,004 up front for a feature that is still in research preview.

For readers outside the United States, the monthly-billed price works out to roughly £149 or C$272 a month, and the annual-billed rate to roughly £124 or C$227 a month, at November 6, 2026 rates of £0.743 and C$1.36 per US dollar. Those are approximations: Perplexity bills in US dollars, so the amount on your statement moves with the exchange rate. The $2,004 annual total converts to about £1,489 or C$2,725 at the same rates.

One note: Perplexity's standalone pricing page returned an error on November 6, so the annual figures above were read from the plan picker on perplexity.ai. The $200 monthly figure comes from The Verge's reporting, as cited by Digital Trends and the Silicon Report. Both figures are current as of publication; Perplexity has not published a separate Teammates price, and the feature is not sold on its own.

The credit catch after the free period

The most important pricing detail is not in the table. Teammates usage is free during a launch promotional period, after which it draws on the credits included in a Max plan. Perplexity has not said how large that promotional grant is, or when it expires, according to AlphaSignal and the Daily AI Brief.

That leaves the real cost of running a teammate unknown. Max includes 10,000 monthly credits plus a one-time 35,000 bonus credits, and the plan picker also advertised $450 in free Computer credits for a limited time when checked on November 6. What nobody has published is how many credits a teammate burns per task, per day of monitoring a Slack channel, or per multi-agent workflow. A teammate that watches a channel and acts on changes could be cheap or expensive; the honest answer is that nobody outside Perplexity knows yet.

The practical advice follows from that gap. Treat the promotional period as a trial with a deadline you cannot see. Run one teammate on one job, watch what it does, and keep a note of how much of your credit allowance it uses once the promotion ends. If several teammates run at once, or the work is complex, the credit burn rises. That much is confirmed by reporting on the launch. Do not build a workflow that depends on five teammates before you know what one costs.

Teammates vs the rest of the agent race

Perplexity is not first to this idea. OpenAI has Dots, its work-focused agents introduced at DevDay; Anthropic has Claude Duet; Microsoft has Copilot Cowork; and Grok Bot is chasing the same territory. Digital Trends notes that OpenAI's workspace agents and Microsoft's Copilot Cowork are aimed at organizations rather than individual subscribers. Teammates, by contrast, is sold to individual Max subscribers first, with Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts not included by default, according to reporting on the launch.

Perplexity is betting that a single person will pay $200 a month for agents that act like staff, while OpenAI and Microsoft are selling the same concept to organizations. Srinivas framed the ambition on X: "Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person," as quoted by the Silicon Report. He also said Perplexity's own workspace had about 10,000 teammates running in the last 30 days, a count he described as 20 times the company's headcount, with about 1,000 active on November 4. That is Perplexity's own number, not an independent measurement, and it says more about internal enthusiasm than about what a paying customer will get.

There is no independent benchmark yet that compares Teammates with Dots or Duet on the same work. No reviewer has published a head-to-head test, and Perplexity's demos are its own. Any comparison that ranks these agents today is guessing. The fair comparison is structural: Teammates is the individual-subscriber play, Dots and Copilot Cowork are the organization play, and the price tags will decide which one reaches ordinary users first.

What is still unproven

Teammates launched as a research preview, and that label should carry weight. A research preview can change behavior, limits, and pricing without much warning, and early users are effectively testing the product in production. The web-only launch is part of the same picture: native iOS, Android, and desktop apps are promised as coming soon, with no date attached.

Three questions have no public answer yet. First, the credit math: how much ongoing work actually costs once the promotional grant ends. Second, reliability: whether a teammate that works unsupervised for days stays accurate, or drifts, repeats itself, or acts on stale information. Perplexity says teammates learn from mistakes and feedback, but that is the company's own claim, and no independent evaluation has tested it. Third, security: separate environments and encrypted credentials are the right design, but no independent audit has been published, and the agents operate with the permissions of your account.

The enterprise gap is the most concrete limitation. If you need admin controls, centralized billing, and member management, the Business view of Perplexity's plan picker offers those, but Teammates itself is not included for Enterprise Pro or Enterprise Max accounts by default. A team that wants to roll this out company-wide cannot do it through the enterprise plan today. That may change, but Perplexity has not said when.

Who should pay, and who should wait

Teammates makes sense for one reader: someone already on Max who has a specific ongoing job that eats hours every week. Invoice chasing, competitor price checks, bug triage, and campaign monitoring are the kind of repetitive, rule-based work the product is built for. If that describes your week, the promotional period is a genuine chance to test it without extra cost beyond the Max subscription you already hold.

Everyone else should wait. If you are on Free or Pro, the upgrade is $200 a month, and that is a lot to pay for a research preview with unpublished running costs. If you need mobile access, enterprise controls, or a clear per-task price, none of those exist yet. And if your work is mostly one-off questions rather than ongoing responsibilities, a teammate adds nothing a normal Perplexity session does not already do.

Three mistakes to avoid if you do try it. First, do not hand a teammate a vague job: a brief that says "handle marketing" will produce vague work, while a brief that names the channels, the approval rules, and the escalation triggers will not. Second, do not skip the escalation rules. An agent that can draft a contract extension or contact a customer without asking should have explicit limits on what it may send. Third, do not assume the promotional period lasts. Check your credit usage in the first weeks, and decide before the free period ends whether the work is worth the credits it will consume.

The agent race is now about who owns the ongoing work, not who answers the next question. Walmart is letting agents shop with spending limits, and Mastercard built a payment rail for machines. Whether that bet pays off will be decided by the credit bill, not the launch demo.

How much does Perplexity Teammates cost?

Teammates has no separate price. It requires a Perplexity Max subscription, which costs $200 a month on monthly billing, or $167 a month when billed annually ($2,004 a year). Max includes 10,000 monthly credits and 35,000 bonus credits, and Teammates usage is free during a launch promotional period before it starts drawing on those credits.

Is Teammates free during the launch period?

Yes, for Max subscribers. Perplexity includes free Teammates usage during a launch promotional period, but it has not disclosed how large the grant is or when it expires. After the promotion ends, teammate work consumes credits from the Max plan's monthly allowance.

Does Teammates work on mobile?

Not yet. Teammates is available now on the web for individual Max subscribers. Perplexity says native iOS, Android, and desktop apps are coming soon, with no date given.

What is the difference between Teammates and Perplexity Computer?

Computer runs agent tasks in sessions that end when the job is done. Teammates are persistent: each one keeps a role, a standing brief, and memory across runs, and owns an ongoing responsibility. Teammates builds on Computer, using the same Projects, Skills, and memory, but adds continuous ownership and collaboration between agents.

Can my company use Teammates?

Not through an enterprise plan at launch. Teammates is a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default, so a company-wide rollout is not possible through those plans today.

Teammates is a major escalation of Perplexity's agent strategy, and the most expensive way to try it. The product is real, the launch is fresh, and the use cases are concrete. But the running cost is unpublished, the mobile apps are missing, and enterprise buyers are locked out. If you already pay for Max, try one teammate on one job and watch the credits. If you do not, wait until Perplexity publishes what a teammate actually costs to run. Read our Perplexity Computer guide to see the system Teammates is built on.

Sources

• Perplexity — Teammates product page
• Digital Trends — Perplexity's new AI coworkers can take over your workload, but they don't come cheap
• Silicon Report — Perplexity takes on OpenAI and Anthropic with work-focused AI agents
• AI Affairs — Perplexity launches Teammates agents for ongoing work
• AlphaSignal — Perplexity's Teammates gives AI agents persistent roles and memory
• Daily AI Brief — Perplexity launches persistent AI Teammates for Max subscribers
• MigraPay — USD to GBP exchange rate, November 6, 2026
• MigraPay — USD to CAD exchange rate, November 6, 2026

Exchange rates: November 6, 2026 market rates, verified at publication (1 USD = 0.743 GBP; 1 USD = 1.36 CAD). Converted prices are approximations.