Perplexity’s Teammates agents now run in the Mac app, for Max users only

Perplexity said in a post on X that Teammates are now available in its Mac app for Max subscribers. The agents take on work for users, alone or together, covering tasks such as QA and customer service.

According to the post, teammates “take on work for you” and “work individually or with other teammates” to handle QA, customer service, research and growth marketing. The post text we could read was cut off after that list, so the full set of use cases is not confirmed here.

What the Mac release gives Max subscribers

Teammates first appeared on November 5, when Perplexity described them as agents that work proactively using a user’s Computer tasks, skills, memory and tools. Our earlier report on the launch covers the Slack side: teammates can message coworkers there and collaborate with each other.

The Mac app is a new place to run them. In its launch blog post, Perplexity said teammates launched first on the web, with iOS “soon” for Max subscribers and more access and features promised “in the coming weeks.” The Mac availability announced now is limited to Max subscribers, the company’s top consumer tier. The post does not say whether Pro or free users will get the Mac version, or when.

The blog post describes a teammate as an agent that plans and coordinates projects, adjusts when priorities change, presents results for review and follows up without a new prompt. It remembers goals, task history and shared files across runs, and it can coordinate Computer sessions and other teammates. Perplexity says teammates “build on the power of Computer, and work inside Computer with all of your tools and files.”

Setup, per the blog, starts by selecting Teammates in the left navigation, naming the teammate after its project, connecting tools such as Slack, GitHub and Gmail, and describing what it should own, including deliverables and timing. For GitHub, users choose which repositories a teammate can reach.

Isolation is the safety claim to test

Perplexity says each teammate runs in a separate environment, with browser sessions kept apart from other teammates, and that saved credentials are encrypted. Users can review finished work, take over the desktop or redirect a teammate. These are the company’s descriptions; no independent test of them was published in the sources we read.

The point matters more on a desktop app than on the web, where agents act inside Perplexity’s own infrastructure. The Mac release places the product closer to a user’s own machine and files, although the announcement does not spell out how the Mac app handles local access.

Perplexity has been publishing on this front. On November 11 it posted new research from red-teaming SPACE, its VM sandbox for Computer agents, in which 12 models were given two tasks: escaping the VM to take a credential from the host, and bypassing the sandbox’s network policy. We have not read the full results, so they are not summarized here.

What to watch as Teammates spread

Model choice is one signal. Perplexity added Claude Fable 5.2 to Computer and Teammates on November 9 and, a day later, Gemini 4 Carbon, which it says scores 0.857 on its own WANDR benchmark at $5.86 per task, matching Fable 5.2 at 40% of the cost (our coverage of the Fable 5.2 addition). Those figures come from Perplexity’s own benchmark and have not been independently checked. If teammates run long, repeated jobs, per-task cost will shape which models they use.

Pricing is the second. The blog names the Pro, Max and Enterprise plans but gives no teammate-specific price or usage limit, and the Mac post adds none. Without caps, it is unclear how much ongoing work a Max subscription covers.

Third is breadth. Web, then Mac, with iOS flagged as next, suggests a staged rollout to the top plan first. Whether Pro subscribers and Enterprise teams get access, and on what terms, would confirm how central Perplexity considers teammates to its product. Until then, the practical answer for readers is narrow: if you pay for Max and use the Mac app, you can try them now.