🤖Perplexity Launches Teammates, 24/7 AI Agents Starting at $200 Per Month

Your AI coworkers now run around the clock

Perplexity just shipped Teammates, and the pitch is simple: hire an AI coworker that never sleeps. Each Teammate runs ongoing, large-scale work around the clock, and you can assign several jobs that run at the same time. Perplexity says it expects every org to eventually have hundreds of Teammates per person. That's a bold number, and it tells you where they want this to go. Why should you care? Because the workflow is what's new here. Each Teammate gets its own thread in the Perplexity app, so you can track progress job by job instead of digging through one giant chat. They also talk to you in Slack, which means your on-call rotation or standup doesn't need a new tool. If you've been stitching together scripts and cron jobs for research, reporting, or monitoring, this is the managed version of that. The catch? Access requires the $200/month Max plan, which is steep for individual devs but could be a rounding error for a team that values the hours saved. Teammates integrate with Perplexity Computer, the company's AI system, and collaborate on work that spans multiple steps. Perplexity hasn't published benchmarks or reliability numbers yet, so treat the 24/7 claim as a promise until you see uptime and cost data from real teams.