What Perplexity announced
Perplexity has introduced Teammates, a new family of software agents designed for work. According to The Verge, these are always-on agents capable of covering multiple roles within a workspace and of retrieving projects, skills, and memory from Perplexity tools already in use. The company thus positions the product in direct competition with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, referred to respectively as Dots and Claude Duet.
The operation relies on Perplexity Computer, the system that allows agents to be deployed on the user's device to complete tasks. Teammates, the company specifies, are built on top of this layer and add the ability to collaborate and to carry out continuous work at scale. Each agent can be assigned different tasks, performed in parallel.
Pricing and usage
The most concrete difference from competitors concerns cost: access to Teammates requires a subscription to Perplexity's Max plan, reported by the source at $200 per month. This is an indication that places the product in a high tier and, according to the available material, makes the offering more expensive than the mentioned alternatives.
On the usage side, Perplexity explains that it is possible to follow the progress of Teammates through dedicated threads in the app and to interact with them on Slack as well. These elements suggest use within existing workflows, but the source does not detail which integrations are available beyond those cited.
The statements and open points
CEO Aravind Srinivas commented on the launch on X, arguing that over time the company envisions every organization equipped with hundreds of Teammates at the service of each person. This is a statement of intent, not a verifiable figure on actual adoption.
Several aspects remain to be clarified: the source does not indicate how the agents handle errors or supervision, what guarantees they offer on data and memory reused from existing projects, or how they behave in complex enterprise environments. The comparison with Dots and Duet is based on the source's description and not on an independent technical assessment. The launch nonetheless signals a competition shifting from conversational assistants to persistent, multi-role agents, with price and reliability as possible decisive factors.
