Perplexity Teammates pricing: 3 things on the Max plan

Perplexity Teammates ships only on the Max plan. Max costs $200 a month on monthly billing, or $2,000 a year on annual billing, which works out to about $167 a month. This post breaks down 3 pricing facts every team should know before paying, then does the math on which teams break even at $200.

Teammates are Perplexity's agents for long-running work, and they run on Perplexity Computer. A teammate takes on ongoing work, watches it, investigates when things change, and brings results back for review. The question of Perplexity Teammates pricing has a short answer: only Max includes Teammates. To use one, you need a Max subscription. Free and Pro users who want Teammates upgrade in Settings, under Account, then Subscription.

Fact 1: $200 is the monthly price, annual billing saves $400

Perplexity's pricing page lists Max at $167 a month when billed annually. That number is an annual equivalent, not a monthly price. Perplexity's own Max help article states the totals plainly: Max costs $200 monthly or $2,000 annually. Annual billing is only available on the web app.

The table below puts Max next to the other two plans, based on Perplexity's pricing page as read on 2026-11-08.

The simplest math is the yearly gap. Twelve months at $200 comes to $2,400. One annual payment costs $2,000. Annual billing saves $400, or about 17% versus monthly billing. A team that's sure it will use Max all year should pay annually. There's nothing more to debate there.

What trips people up is that the pricing page only prints the annual equivalent. A quick glance makes Max look like $167 a month on any billing cycle. It isn't. You only get the $167 figure by paying $2,000 up front for the full year, and only on the web. If you subscribe through an app store, that annual option isn't there.

Max costs ten times what Pro costs. Pro is $20 a month, or $17 a month on annual billing. The $180 monthly gap between Pro and Max is the amount Teammates and Computer have to earn back through work done. That's the core question of this post, and I'll come back to it in fact 3. That is the full answer to Perplexity Teammates pricing.

Fact 2: $200 buys what Teammates needs to run

Teammates isn't a toggle inside the Pro plan. It runs on Perplexity Computer, and Computer is what only Max fully opens up. The pricing page says Max includes maximum Computer usage, 35,000 bonus credits, 10,000 monthly credits. Expert-level research, frontier AI models, the highest usage limits and memory, and priority access to new features.

Three items are Max-only: 10,000 Computer credits a month, Model Council, and Brain. Credits are the fuel Teammates burns while working on Computer: opening a browser, running tasks, watching ongoing work. Without credits, the agent has nothing to run on. So $200 doesn't buy a pricier chatbot. It buys runtime for an agent that keeps working over weeks.

Perplexity launched Teammates on the web first, with iOS to follow. Setting up a teammate takes 5 steps. Sign in to Perplexity on the web, pick Teammates in the left navigation. Name it after the work you want it to own, connect the tools it needs, then describe the work it should do. After that, assign it to a project and give it a first task. You can connect Slack, GitHub, and Gmail. For GitHub, you pick exactly which repositories the teammate may touch.

Each teammate works in its own environment, with browser sessions kept separate from other teammates. Saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely. You can review completed work, take over the desktop, or redirect a teammate while it works. That's the difference from a chatbot that answers and forgets: a teammate keeps the job. Remembers project goals, task history, and shared files, then picks the work up again next time.

Fact 3: Which teams break even at $200, and which should stay on Pro

The right question isn't whether Max is expensive. It's whether your team has enough recurring work for $200 to pay for itself. I judge that on 3 tests.

The first test is the volume of ongoing work. Teammates exist for long-running jobs: a marketing teammate watching campaigns, ads, and customer reviews. A sales teammate reviewing the pipeline every week. A support teammate summarizing yesterday's complaints and flagging the cases that need a personal reply. If your team has work like that running every week, $200 a month splits into $50 a week for an agent that watches things nonstop. If your team only asks one-off questions, Pro at $20 a month is enough, and the extra $180 a month is money spent for nothing.

The second test is how many people share the teammate's output. You can add a teammate to a Slack channel, where colleagues hand it work or ask for updates right in the channel. One teammate that finds bugs on a website can pass its findings to another teammate to prepare fixes. A teammate's value grows with the number of people who use what it produces. A solo user who hires Teammates as a personal reminder will struggle to break even. A team of 5 sharing one teammate's weekly report pays $40 per person per month.

The third test is review time. Teammates don't send everything they do out into the world on their own. They share progress updates and approval requests until the work is done. You still have to read and approve the output. A team with no one to review shouldn't buy in, because an agent nobody watches is the same as no agent at all. A team with a fast reviewer turns Teammates into real savings on meetings and follow-up messages.

What Teammates does in a team's day

Perplexity's launch post tells one concrete story. A sales teammate notices when a regular customer stops transacting. It reviews their order history and support issues, investigates what changed, then creates a relevant offer or flags the issues to resolve before reaching out. It doesn't wait for a fresh query.

An operations teammate keeps project deadlines, checklists, vendors, and paperwork on track. When a deadline is 72 hours away and items are still missing, it follows up so the team can fix the gap in time. A marketing teammate monitors campaign performance and competitors' promotions, drafts new ads based on what's working, and suggests responses when competitors change prices. Every example follows the same pattern: monitor, investigate, act, then bring it back for review.

Teammates also remember feedback and apply it next time. Tell an operations teammate that an agency needs two weeks' notice, and it factors that lead time into future schedules. That memory is what separates Teammates from an ordinary chat session, because a chat session forgets everything when you close the tab.

Three questions before you pay $200

First: does the team's work repeat every week. If the job happens once, buy Max for one month and cancel. That still beats paying for a year. If it repeats all year, annual billing saves $400.

Second: does the work need memory across runs. Teammates keep goals, history, and shared files across many runs. If your work needs no memory, Pro is enough.

Third: who approves the output. Teammates finish work and bring it back for review. They don't publish it or send it to customers on their own. The team needs one person who reviews regularly. Without a reviewer, $200 buys a queue nobody reads.

Answer all three, and you can settle Perplexity Teammates pricing for your own team.

One more note on money: the prices on the pricing page are list prices in USD, before tax, and they can differ by country. Before you subscribe, open the pricing page again and read the exact numbers for your own account, because prices and features can change. This post follows the pricing page and the Max help article as read on 2026-11-08.

If you're new to Perplexity, start with What is Perplexity. It explains how Perplexity answers with citations, the Free, Pro, and Max plans, and the Comet browser. To understand what an agent is before handing work to Teammates, read What is an AI agent. To see how agents automate daily work, read Automate work with AI agents.

Sources

Sources, read on 2026-11-08:

1. Perplexity: Teammates are agents for complex, ongoing work (official blog) (2026-11-08)
2. Perplexity: Pricing (official pricing page, Max $167 a month when billed annually) (2026-11-08)
3. Perplexity: Perplexity Max (official help article, last modified 2026-09-14; Max $200 a month or $2,000 a year, annual billing web only, as stated in the article and quoted by independent pricing trackers) (read on 2026-11-08)

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