As competition in artificial intelligence intensifies, Perplexity has introduced a new agentic product called Perplexity Computer. The company describes it as a system that “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” It works as a cloud-based computer user agent that can independently execute complex workflows using 19 AI models and even create subagents for specific tasks. The tool is available exclusively to subscribers of the $200/month Perplexity Max tier and runs fully in the cloud, potentially avoiding some of the security risks linked to tools like OpenClaw.
Although a publication has not conducted a hands-on demo, examples on Perplexity’s website show the tool gathering statistics, financial and legal data, performing analysis and presenting results as websites or visualizations. The company had planned a live demo during a media briefing last week but canceled it hours before the event after discovering product flaws. The launch marks the next step in Perplexity’s evolution, following its AI-powered answer engine and the release of its Comet web browser last summer.
Perplexity executives say the company is now focused on serving users making “GDP-moving decisions,” with an emphasis on enterprise subscriptions and deep research. “You don’t hear us talk about MAUs ever, because we’re not actually on a mission to get as many users as possible,” one executive said. The company’s user base, in the tens of millions, remains smaller than OpenAI, which reports 800 million weekly users and has begun testing ads in ChatGPT this year. Perplexity recently introduced a benchmark called Draco, where it claims its deep research tool outperforms competitors like Gemini.
The company argues that “Multi-model is the future,” noting that users switch between models depending on tasks. In December 2025, visual queries were often routed to Gemini Flash, coding tasks to Claude Sonnet 4.5 and medical research to GPT-5.1. Perplexity also offers Model Council, which lets users query multiple models at once, though flat subscription economics remain unclear. Comet is set to launch on iOS next month and a developers event, Ask, is scheduled for March 11 in San Francisco. Addressing concerns about rate limits, one executive stated, “Any discussions on the free tier being made worse or rate-limited is completely false.”
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