VestraVestra gives your business a chief you name, Bash by default, who hires and runs a team of AI teammates that own whole jobs, from $19 a month. Perplexity Teammates are agents for ongoing work inside Perplexity Computer, in research preview for Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 a month.
Vestra gives you a chief that runs the whole team. You name your chief, Bash by default. Tell it what you need in a sentence and it hires the right teammates, gives each a whole job with goals you can check, and makes sure every result is checked before it reaches you.[1] Each teammate has skills, apps, routines, memory and an engine of its own.[2]
Perplexity Teammates are agents you create and configure one at a time inside Perplexity Computer. Each one owns a role and can start more agents in parallel to finish a large goal.[3] Teammates can pass work to each other and take requests in Slack.[4]
You talk to one chief, and your team grows by the sentence.
No. Vestra starts at $19 a month. Lite gives you up to 3 teammates and 2,000 credits every month, and every new office starts with 1,000 free credits. Unused credits roll over.[5]
Perplexity Teammates are in research preview for individual Perplexity Max subscribers.[3] Max costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year.[6]
A small team can start handing off real work without a $200 plan.
Yes. Vestra’s chief has its own phone number and email address. Phone calls start on Pro.[7] You cap spending per task and per day, money and first contact wait for your yes, and every piece of work has a receipt.[8]
Perplexity Teammates send approval requests and work through plugins such as Slack, GitHub and Gmail.[4] Credits are tracked on a Usage page with optional auto-refill. Perplexity has not published phone calls or daily spending caps for teammates.[3]
Your team can reach people for you, and you always know what it spent.
Start with one real job you want off your plate. See how your chief and its teammates handle it, then build from there.
The rows follow the four reasons above: a chief that runs the whole team; from $19, not $200; calls, email and the apps you use; and limits, approvals and receipts. After those come the areas where the two are close. Perplexity does more in a few places: its search and research heritage, a separate computer for every teammate, tagging teammates in GitHub and Linear, and an iOS app.
| What matters | Vestra | Perplexity Teammates |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs the work | You name your chief (Bash by default). It hires teammates you describe in a sentence, gives each a whole job with goals you can check, and makes sure every result is checked before it reaches you.[1][2] | You create each teammate yourself and give it a role. A teammate breaks a goal into tasks and starts more agents to run them in parallel. Teammates in the same Project share context and can message each other.[3] |
| Plans | Lite $19 a month for up to 3 teammates and 2,000 credits. Pro $97 for 20 teammates, 10,000 credits and phone calls. Max $197 for 50 teammates and 20,000 credits. Ultra $497 for 150 teammates and 50,000 credits. Billed yearly, they are $17, $87, $177 and $447 a month.[5] | Needs an individual Perplexity Max subscription, which costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year. Perplexity says teammate usage is free on Max for a promotional period, then uses the credits included in Max. Perplexity has not published how many credits Max includes or how many teammates you can run.[6][9] |
| Getting started | Sign up directly. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits, enough to hand over real work before you pick a plan.[5] | A research preview for individual Max subscribers. Free and Pro users must upgrade to Max first, and Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. Perplexity says behavior may change. It has not published which countries teammates are available in.[3][4] |
| Where you use it | Talk to your chief in the Vestra app on the web and on Mac, in Slack, in Telegram or by email.[7] | On the Perplexity website. You can also tag teammates as apps in Slack, GitHub and Linear. Perplexity’s launch post says iOS is coming soon, and its product page lists iOS, with Android to follow.[3][4][9] |
| Calls and email | Your chief has its own phone number and email address. Phone calls start on Pro.[7][5] | Teammates can work in Gmail and Slack through plugins you connect. Perplexity has not published phone calls or a teammate’s own email address.[4] |
| App connections | More than 2,000 apps connect in a click, including Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Shopify and Stripe. You choose which agents may use each one.[10] | Teammates use your installed plugins, such as Slack, GitHub, Gmail and Linear, with the same permissions. They can also use websites that have no connector.[3] |
| Model and engine choice | Pick the engine for each teammate: Vestra’s own, Claude Code or Codex. Your chief can suggest one, and you can switch any time without losing the teammate’s job, skills or memory.[11][7] | Like Vestra, you choose the model for each teammate and can use different models for different tasks. New teammates use Claude Opus 5.5 by default.[3] |
| Its own cloud computer | Your team works on a cloud computer with a real browser, files and a terminal. Watch it live and take over any time. It has 8 GB on Lite and Pro, 16 GB on Max and 32 GB on Ultra.[10][5] | Each teammate runs on its own isolated computer, with its own desktop and browser. You can take over the desktop and steer its work.[3][4] |
| Approvals | Spending over your limit, contacting someone new and deleting anything always come to you. You set each teammate’s freedom, task by task, and change it any time.[8] | Teammates send approval requests and progress updates, and each one gets rules on when to involve you.[4][9] |
| Spending limits and receipts | Cap spending per task and per day, up to $100 a day. Every piece of work has a receipt showing which teammate spent what, and on which job. Unused credits roll over, and you can top up any time.[8][5] | Teammates use your Max credits. You can review usage on the Usage page and buy credits or set auto-refill there. Perplexity has not published per-task or daily spending caps for teammates.[3] |
| Memory | A wiki of what your team knows, with a source for every line. You can open it, check it and edit it.[12][7] | Teammates remember project goals, task history and shared files across runs, and apply your feedback to future work. On Max, Perplexity’s Brain, in research preview, links each memory entry to its source.[4][6] |
| Schedules and proactive work | Routines run on a schedule, like a market note every Monday at 9, or the moment something happens, like a rival changing its prices. Your chief also sends you a morning brief.[2][1] | Teammates watch the tools you connect, start work when something arrives, schedule follow-ups and run recurring automations.[3][4] |
| Skills | Ready-made skills for Sales, Bookkeeping, Content, Customer care and Research, plus custom skills shaped to how your business works.[2] | Teammates can use the skills you have installed in Perplexity Computer.[3] |
| Search and research heritage | Research is one of Vestra’s ready-made skills. Vestra is built to run a team that does the work across your business, not as a search engine.[2] | Perplexity’s strength. Teammates are built on Perplexity’s focus on accuracy and can research a market, map a competitive landscape or investigate issues.[4][3] |
A chief that runs the whole team. Your chief hires teammates in a sentence and checks their work before it reaches you.[1]
From $19, not $200. Vestra plans start at $19 a month.[5] Perplexity Teammates need Perplexity Max at $200 a month.[6]
Calls, email and the apps you use. Your chief has its own number and email address, and connects to 2,000+ apps.[10]
Limits, approvals and receipts. Daily and per-task caps, your yes on money, and every credit itemized.[8]
If you already pay for Perplexity Max and live in Perplexity Computer, teammates build on the Projects, skills and memory you have there.[4] They suit long research and engineering projects: each teammate can run many agents in parallel, each on its own computer, watch GitHub, Linear and Datadog, and open pull requests.[3] Perplexity’s product page also lists an iOS app.[9]
Teammates are AI agents that own ongoing work in Perplexity. You give one a responsibility, such as triaging bug reports or researching a market, and it plans the tasks and follows through until the result is ready for your review.[3] Perplexity launched them in early November 2026 for Max subscribers.[4]
Vestra starts at $19 a month. Lite is $19 for up to 3 teammates, Pro $97 for 20, Max $197 for 50 and Ultra $497 for 150. Bigger plans also add credits, a bigger computer and, from Pro, phone calls. Unused credits roll over, and you can top up any time.[5]
Perplexity Teammates need an individual Perplexity Max subscription, at $200 a month or $2,000 a year.[6] Perplexity says teammate usage is free on Max for a promotional period, then draws on the credits included in Max. It has not published how many credits that is.[9]
Sign up, name your chief and tell it about your work. It suggests your first teammates, you connect a few tools, and work starts the same day. Every new office starts with 1,000 free credits, and plans start at $19 a month.[13]
Perplexity Teammates bring ongoing agents to Perplexity Max. Vestra gives your business a chief that hires and runs a team of teammates, with calls, email, limits and receipts, from $19 a month.
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