Perplexity Computer
Released Feb 25, 2026
Perplexity's general-purpose 'digital worker' that breaks projects into subtasks and delegates them to specialised sub-agents across 20+ models, covering research, design, code and deployment.
- Domain
- General
- Access
- Generally available
- Plan
- Perplexity Pro or Max
Runs on
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Orchestrates many models in parallel with a lead reasoning model
- Available in web, iOS, Slack and email
Weaknesses
- Credit-based (Max launched with 10,000 credits/mo)
- Model lineup changes frequently
Not notable: non-frontier developer; launch post cites only Perplexity's own DRACO benchmark. Borderline harness: users can choose the orchestrator model and prompt it to use any of the 20+ models for subagents. underlyingModels reflects the 2026-08-24 changelog: GPT-5.6 Terra is the default subagent model (also selectable as orchestrator); GPT-5.6 Luna (gpt-5-6-luna) handles scheduled automations. Launch orchestrator was Opus 4.6 (not in models.json); GPT-5.5 became default orchestrator in May 2026. Since 2026-10-20 Computer can run fully local on Apple-silicon Macs (model, harness and execution on device; Qwen 3.6 and PPLX Pro as local options) for Pro, Max and Enterprise.