Perplexity Teammates: How the $200 AI Agents Work – TechRepublic

Perplexity has launched Teammates, a new feature that lets AI agents handle ongoing work without requiring a fresh prompt for every task. The agents can take on different roles, remember project context, and continue working while users focus on something else.

Announced Nov. 5, Teammates is initially available to individual Perplexity Max subscribers on the web. Access costs $200 per month or $2,000 annually, and native mobile and desktop support is coming later.

Unlike a chatbot that responds to one request at a time, Teammates is designed around longer-running assignments. Users can give an agent a goal, monitor its progress, and redirect it when needed. The feature builds on Perplexity Computer, the company’s existing AI agent platform.

How Perplexity Teammates works

Teammates allows users to assign different jobs to separate AI agents. One might monitor a marketing campaign while another researches competitors or works on a coding project.

Each agent has its own conversation thread, making it easier to follow what it’s doing and review its results. Agents can also draw on existing projects, files, skills, and memory from Perplexity Computer rather than starting every assignment without context.

Perplexity says Teammates can coordinate work across multiple tasks and respond to changes in connected tools. For example, a marketing agent could monitor campaign performance and prepare follow-up work when results change.

Users can also interact with agents through Slack, where coworkers can contribute instructions or review ongoing tasks.

The feature builds on the capabilities of Perplexity Computer, which already supports AI-driven work across files, applications, and development tools.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has described a future in which organizations could have hundreds of AI teammates working for each employee. That’s the company’s ambition, not a confirmed capability or deployment scale for the initial release.

What can Teammates access, and how do users stay in control?

Teammates is designed to work with information and tools users connect to Perplexity Computer.

Depending on the available integrations and permissions, that can include project documents, existing conversations, and work managed through connected applications.

Users can monitor each agent’s progress, provide feedback, and redirect an assignment. Perplexity also describes the ability to take over an agent’s desktop session when direct intervention is needed.

These controls are particularly relevant for agents that continue working without constant supervision.

For organizations considering AI agents, access to connected accounts deserves careful review. An agent that can read project information or act through an application should have only the permissions needed for its assigned work.

Teams should also establish which actions require human approval, particularly when agents can send messages, modify shared files, or change production systems.

Those concerns aren’t unique to Perplexity. Anthropic’s Claude Duet also targets ongoing workplace tasks, making permissions, oversight, and reliability important considerations when comparing the products.

Perplexity has described its approach to agent permissions and supervision, but the launch announcement does not establish how reliably every safeguard performs in real-world deployments.

Perplexity Teammates pricing and availability

Teammates is rolling out to individual Max subscribers through Perplexity’s web interface.

According to Perplexity’s Max documentation, the subscription costs:

• Monthly: $200
• Annually: $2,000, equivalent to approximately $166.67 per month

The annual billing option is available through the web app.

The initial Teammates release isn’t generally available to Enterprise Pro or Enterprise Max customers. Perplexity has indicated that broader access and additional platform support are planned, but hasn’t confirmed a full rollout schedule.

Teammates also uses the resources available through Perplexity Computer. Running complex tasks or several agents simultaneously may consume usage credits faster than simpler assignments, so subscribers should monitor their consumption.

For businesses, the individual subscription requirement makes Teammates easier to evaluate as a small pilot than as a company-wide deployment.

Organizations should confirm enterprise availability, administrative controls, data handling, and usage costs before planning a broader rollout.

How Teammates compares with other AI work agents

Perplexity is entering a market where OpenAI and Anthropic already offer agents designed to continue working across tasks and applications.

OpenAI’s Dots focuses on ongoing personal assistance, while Anthropic’s Claude Duet emphasizes workplace automation through connected services.

Perplexity’s approach centers on assigning persistent roles to agents that share project context and can work alongside colleagues.

The products differ in availability, integrations, and how users supervise their work. TechRepublic’s earlier AI agent comparison examines how competing platforms approach ongoing assistance.

For now, Teammates’ biggest limitation is access. At $200 per month, it’s a premium feature aimed at users willing to pay for ongoing AI assistance, and enterprise deployment remains an open question.

Its usefulness will depend on how consistently agents complete real tasks, how much supervision they require, and whether the time saved justifies the subscription and usage costs.

Also read: Businesses considering persistent AI agents can review Claude Code alternatives for another look at AI tools that handle development tasks with varying levels of autonomy.