Perplexity Teammates launched on November 4, 2026, and are now available as a web research preview for individual Max subscriptions. Perplexity describes a teammate as taking on ongoing work between prompts and returning finished output for a person to review.
The company pitches the format for responsibilities that stay open — marketing work, support queues, operations or finance. Perplexity says one teammate can coordinate its work across Perplexity Computer sessions and hand pieces of a job to other teammates. It also says teammates carry project goals, task history and shared files from one run to the next, so later tasks build on earlier ones. Perplexity says a teammate keeps corrections. In the company’s example, a user tells an operations teammate that an agency needs two weeks’ notice, and that lead time carries into later project schedules.
Where the work happens is part of the design. Perplexity’s teammates help pages say each teammate gets its own desktop and browser. It can use apps and websites that have no connector. It can also divide a goal among agents working in parallel, adding agents as the work grows. In addition, a teammate added to a Slack channel can take work from colleagues. Perplexity also says teammates share progress updates and approval requests. Users can inspect the results, redirect a task or take control of the desktop.
Perplexity says sessions and local cookies stay inside one teammate. Access follows the permissions already set on connected plugins and Projects. The company says it encrypts saved credentials, takes them through a secure entry path, and does not let the agent view them. Owners can view their teammate’s conversation; sharing it gives other people read-only access. Users can choose models for teammates and tasks, with Claude Opus 5.5 as the default for a new teammate.
Who can use it, and what it costs
Perplexity calls the current stage a research preview, says the feature is still under development and that behavior may change, and limits it to the website. iOS is expected later, and the announcement gives no date. Pro subscriptions are outside the preview. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default; the help pages point those customers to an organization admin for access.
Perplexity’s Max plan page prices Max at $200 per month or $2,000 per year. Annual billing is available only on the web app version. Teammates draw on the monthly credit allocation included with Max. Perplexity says complex projects can use more credits, especially when agents work in parallel, handle large files or codebases, or run frequent automations. However, the announcement does not specify a separate price for Teammates or how many credits one teammate uses.
Setting one up
Perplexity’s steps begin by signing in on the web and selecting Teammates in the left-hand navigation. The user names the teammate after the work it owns, then connects the plugins it needs, such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail. For GitHub, the user picks which repositories it may access. Setup asks the user to describe the teammate’s responsibility. That includes the source of incoming work, the expected output and when it should act. The last step assigns the teammate to a Project with an initial task.
