Perplexity puts Teammates on a 24/7 shift for $200 a month

Perplexity has launched Teammates, agents that receive an ongoing responsibility rather than a single task. They run inside Perplexity Computer, retain project goals and prior work, and can monitor changes without a fresh prompt.

Each agent gets its own computer, memory and shift

Teammates use the Projects, skills, memory and plugins already available in Computer. They can work with tools such as Slack, GitHub and Gmail, hand tasks to one another and ask a person for a decision. Users can inspect the work, redirect it or take over the remote desktop.

Each agent runs in a separate environment with its own browser session. Perplexity says stored credentials are encrypted and agents inherit existing tool and Project permissions. At launch, the feature is available on the web to Max subscribers for $200 a month. A promotional credit grant is included, after which Teammates consume credits from the Max plan.

Persistent ownership turns an assistant into an operating role

The product targets marketing, sales, support and operations. An agent might watch a sales pipeline, prepare follow-ups or flag a customer who stopped ordering. The meaningful shift is that a person no longer starts every step. They define the objective, access and moments when the agent should escalate.

That makes memory and automation more valuable, but also raises the cost of a badly configured permission. A one-off chat error ends with an answer. A persistent agent can repeat an error every week, carry it across tools and burn credits without producing a useful result.

Isolated sessions do not fix bad decisions

A separate browser limits credential spillover between agents, but it does not validate their judgment. Perplexity has not published independent completion rates, the frequency of human intervention or typical credit consumption during prolonged use. Public prompt injection results specific to Teammates are also absent.

The $200-a-month Max plan is a consumer subscription, while the examples reach into company systems. Teams therefore need auditability, precise approval rules and fast access revocation, not merely several isolated desktops.

Audit trails and the credit bill will determine usefulness

The first meaningful signal will be the share of tasks completed without correction alongside the cost of each finished job. The second will be availability for organizational accounts with central administration, audit logs and granular permission limits.

Perplexity says access and features will expand in the coming weeks. Until it provides operating metrics and clear enterprise controls, Teammates is an intriguing service design rather than a proven digital coworker.

Lilith's verdict

An agent working the night shift needs more than a private browser. It needs a supervisor who can see every step, revoke its badge and price the whole shift.