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# Is Perplexity Teammates Worth It? What the $200 Max Plan Buys and What It Leaves Out
- URL: https://www.cognativ.com/blog/perplexity-teammates-ai-agents/
- Published: 2026-11-09T14:58:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T14:58:12.000Z
- Description: Teammates join Slack and keep working, but only on one person's Max plan, with owner-only chats and no enterprise audit logs. A buyer's look at fit and credits.
- Author: Kevin Anderson
- Tags: News

Perplexity Teammates can sit in a Slack channel, take requests from coworkers and keep working after their owner logs off. They are also locked to a single person's $200-a-month Max subscription, run with that person's permissions and are kept out of Perplexity's enterprise plans by default.

Whether Teammates are worth paying for comes down to that mismatch. The features suit one owner handing off recurring work; the packaging is a poor fit for a company that needs shared control, audit records and predictable spend.

## Perplexity Teammates Launch on Max With Memory, Monitoring and Slack

Perplexity introduced Teammates in a [blog post dated November 4, 2026](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/teammates-are-agents-for-complex-ongoing-work?ref=cognativ.com), describing them as agents for complex, ongoing work. Each teammate owns an area such as sales follow-up, campaign monitoring or bug triage. It keeps project goals, task history, shared files and the owner's corrections across runs, and it acts when something changes in a connected tool such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail. Teammates run inside Perplexity Computer, the company's cloud agent environment, and the help center labels the launch a research preview.

Chief executive Aravind Srinivas announced the rollout on X on November 5\. He described it as a move from prompting an assistant one session at a time to handing it a goal, and said native apps would follow the web release.

> AAravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas
> 
> Today, we're launching Perplexity Teammates. They are personal agents for work. And change the paradigm from writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals. Rolling out to Max users on the web today. Native apps (mobile, desktop) coming soon. pic.twitter.com/dmYIuw52Yb
> 
> Nov 5, 2026[View on X](https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2118388400730591469?ref=cognativ.com)

Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity's co-founder and CEO, announcing Teammates on November 5, 2026.

## Can You Make Agents in Perplexity? Only on an Individual Max Plan

Yes, but the plan matters more than the feature list. Perplexity's Max help page prices the plan at $200 a month or $2,000 a year and says it is "available only for consumers on a Free or Pro plan." The Teammates help article says Free and Pro users must upgrade, and that Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default in this launch, although enterprise users can ask their administrator.

| Perplexity plan | Teammates at launch     | Monthly credits                         | Audit logs                 |
| --------------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------------------- | -------------------------- |
| Pro             | Upgrade to Max required | None; weekly Computer allowance instead | Enterprise feature only    |
| Max             | Included                | 10,000                                  | Enterprise feature only    |
| Enterprise Pro  | Not included by default | 500                                     | Only with 50 or more seats |
| Enterprise Max  | Not included by default | 15,000                                  | Included                   |

The table shows the gap a business buyer runs into. The controls a company would want around an agent with standing access, including audit logs, administrator-set session retention and SCIM role management, sit on Enterprise Max at $325 per seat per month, according to Perplexity's help center. The plan that actually includes Teammates is the one without them. A company that wants to try Teammates now will almost always do it through one employee's personal subscription.

## Can You Collaborate on Perplexity Teammates? In Slack, Not in the Chat

Collaboration happens in the tools a teammate connects to, not inside Perplexity. Added to a Slack channel, a teammate can take requests and status questions from colleagues, follow up with them and be tagged as an app. Teammates can also pass work to each other; Perplexity's example has one agent finding website bugs and another preparing the fixes.

The teammate's own workspace stays private. The help center says only the owner can see a teammate's chat, and shared chats are read-only for everyone else. A manager or colleague cannot step into the conversation, change the instructions or review the agent's reasoning unless the owner does it for them.

Access follows the owner too. A teammate uses the owner's installed plugins with the owner's permissions, so an agent set up by a founder with admin rights in Slack and Google Workspace starts with that reach. Perplexity's safeguards are real but individual: each teammate gets an isolated computer with its own browser sessions, credentials are encrypted and hidden from the agent, GitHub access can be limited to chosen repositories, and the owner can take over the desktop mid-task. The launch post says teammates send approval requests as they work, and its sales example prepares customer follow-ups for review rather than sending them.

For a team, that means writing down what Perplexity does not enforce: who owns each agent, which channels it may read, which actions need a human yes and where its actions get logged. Those rules form the core of a practical [AI governance](https://www.cognativ.com/ai/governance/) policy, and they apply to any agent that inherits a person's access.

![A two by two grid: Slack channel requests, tagging as an app, teammate handoffs, and an owner-only chat.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cc/dc/ccdca949-0fe4-4119-8990-70a44ad75060/content/images/2026/11/perplexity-teammates-ai-agents-1.png)

Coworkers reach a teammate through Slack; its own chat stays with the owner.

## Where the $200 Goes: Credits, the Free Period and Reported Burn

Perplexity's product page says every Max plan includes free teammate usage for a promotional period, after which teammates draw from the plan's credits. Perplexity has not said when that period ends or what a teammate run costs. Its general credits page sets the terms that will apply: Max includes 10,000 credits a month that do not roll over, extra credits currently cost $1 per 100, and new Max subscribers get a one-time 35,000-credit bonus that expires in about 30 days.

At today's rate, the monthly allotment is worth about $100 of usage. Perplexity's own guide puts a multi-step research report at roughly 350 to 950 credits, and the Teammates article warns that parallel agents, large codebases and frequent automations use more. AIReiter, citing posts on Reddit, reports Computer users describing heavy credit use on tasks that failed or never finished.

Two account settings limit the exposure. Max carries a default $200 monthly cap on credit charges, adjustable up to $5,000, and auto-refill is off by default; when credits run out without it, tasks pause. Leave both at their defaults during a trial and check the usage page weekly.

Spend credits on judgment, not repetition. If a step runs the same way every time, such as copying form submissions into a CRM or posting a daily metrics table, a fixed [workflow automation](https://www.cognativ.com/ai/process-automation/workflow-automation/) is cheaper per run and behaves identically each time, leaving the teammate for work that needs reading and deciding.

![A vertical flow from included monthly credits to purchased credits, then auto-refill, ending at the monthly spending cap.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cc/dc/ccdca949-0fe4-4119-8990-70a44ad75060/content/images/2026/11/perplexity-teammates-ai-agents-2.png)

After the promotion, teammate work draws on included credits first, then paid top-ups up to a cap.

## Who Perplexity Teammates Fit Now, and Who Should Wait

Teammates suit a founder or operator who already pays for Max, owns a recurring job end to end and keeps that work in Slack, Gmail or GitHub. Monitoring competitor promotions, chasing missing vendor paperwork or preparing follow-ups for lapsed customers are the kinds of jobs Perplexity demonstrates, and the output comes back for one person to review.

Waiting makes sense for teams that need several people to manage the same agent, for companies on an Enterprise plan that would need their administrator to request access, and for anyone handling client data that requires an audit trail. The product is a research preview whose behavior may change, its post-promotion cost is undefined, and Perplexity's pages still disagree on mobile timing.

![Four parallel columns describing a good first fit: one owner, work in Slack or Gmail, reviewable output and low-risk actions.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cc/dc/ccdca949-0fe4-4119-8990-70a44ad75060/content/images/2026/11/perplexity-teammates-ai-agents-3.png)

Teammates fit single-owner, reviewable, low-risk jobs that live in connected tools.

## FAQs About Perplexity Teammates

Availability, control and model questions from people weighing the Max plan.

### Is Perplexity Teammates available on iPhone?

Perplexity's pages differ. The launch post says web first with iOS soon, the help center says the website only, and the product page lists iOS with desktop and Android coming. The web is the reliable option for now.

### How are Teammates different from Perplexity Computer?

Computer runs tasks and scheduled automations as separate jobs. Teammates run inside Computer but keep a standing role, remember earlier runs, watch connected tools between tasks and can start and steer additional agents and message other teammates.

### Can you take over a Perplexity teammate while it works?

Yes. The owner can take over the teammate's desktop, or redirect it mid-task, and finished work comes back for review before it is treated as done.

### What AI model does Perplexity Teammates use?

Perplexity's help center says new teammates use Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 by default. The owner can change the model for each teammate.

## Buy Max for Teammates When One Person Owns the Work

Teammates are a capable preview of agents that hold a standing job, and the Slack follow-up and memory across runs are genuinely useful for one owner. The limits sit in the packaging: an individual plan, owner-only visibility, no audit logs by default and a credit rate for agent work that Perplexity has not yet published. For a single operator with a clear recurring job, a month of Max during the free period is a reasonable test. For a team, the missing shared controls are the deciding factor.

Choosing between a Perplexity teammate, a fixed workflow and an agent built on your own systems starts with one recurring job, so [tell us about the job and the tools it touches](https://www.cognativ.com/contact/).