Automations in Perplexity Computer Review
AI AgentsPaidAutomations in Perplexity Computer is the scheduled and event-triggered task feature inside Perplexity's agentic Computer — recurring research, monitoring, and follow-up jobs that run in the cloud and report back.
What Is Perplexity Computer and Where Do Automations Fit?
The underlying product is Perplexity's agentic worker: a general-purpose digital assistant that plans and executes multi-step work — research, documents, apps, email, and monitoring — inside a cloud sandbox with sub-agents, connectors, and persistent memory. Launching it, Perplexity described the agent as the next layer over the search engine, and it lives across the web app, iOS, and Android with no separate installation.
It is important to keep the two headliners separate in your head. Comet is Perplexity's AI-native browser; this worker is the agentic layer. The two connect — Comet's Work mode runs the agent and spends its credits — but they are distinct products, and the Automations described here belong to the agent, not the browser.
What Automations Actually Do
An Automation is a described job plus a trigger. Scheduling supports hourly, daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, and custom intervals, with no run more often than once per hour; one-off actions are not Automations. Event triggers fire when something happens in Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear, or GitHub, and conditional filters narrow the trigger, such as an email from a particular sender that asks for a decision.
Each run is attended in the background: a fresh agent picks up the job, uses the conversation's memory from earlier runs, and saves the full output to the task session. Users get in-app, push, or email notifications when a result deserves attention.
- Recurring intelligence jobs, like weekly competitor-pricing reports
- Event-driven follow-ups, like flagging a deployment that has not shipped
- Reply drafts and Linear issue-to-PR workflows on a schedule
- Background runs that need no open laptop, with attended-mode options for browser-heavy jobs
Setting Up and Managing Automations
There are two supported ways to create one. You can describe the job in the agent's input and confirm a proposed schedule, or open the Automations dashboard at perplexity.ai/computer/automations and choose New Automation, naming the outcome, tools, destination, and which actions need human review. Active, Paused, and Completed states, Run now, editing, pinning, and deletion are all available from the dashboard, and a detail page shows the history of every run and what triggered it.
For teams, admins can restrict which connector permissions Automations can use, and prior scheduled jobs from the older Perplexity Tasks surface migrate into the dashboard.
Pricing: Plans and Computer Credits
Automations is not sold separately. It comes with the paid Perplexity plans that include Computer — Pro at $20/month, Max at $200/month, or an Enterprise plan. Watching for a trigger costs no credits; credits are only spent when a run actually executes, at roughly 100 credits = $1, with typical jobs ranging from about 100 credits for a light task to thousands for a heavy one. For teams needing deterministic no-code automation instead of credit-billed agent runs, [Zapier](/tools/zapier) and [Make](/tools/make) are the established options, while [Perplexity AI](/tools/perplexity-ai) covers the search engine these automations build on.
Best For
Recommended use cases and scenarios where Automations in Perplexity Computer shines.
Pros
- Runs on a schedule or on real event triggers from Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear, or GitHub
- Background agents keep working in the cloud — no need to keep a laptop open
- Each run builds on memory from prior runs instead of starting from scratch
- Notification when something noteworthy happens, silent when nothing changes
- Conditional filters, such as flagging email from a specific sender that asks for a decision
- Up to 15 scheduled tasks per Computer conversation, with run-now, pause, and edit controls
Cons
- Requires an active paid Perplexity plan — the free Standard plan does not include Computer
- Executing a run spends Computer credits on top of the plan, so heavy automation has a variable cost
- Runs are capped at once per hour, and event triggers are limited to the five supported connectors
- Very new: Automations shipped in late September 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Automations in Perplexity Computer, answered.
What is Automations in Perplexity Computer?
It is a feature inside Perplexity's agentic worker that runs scheduled or event-triggered AI tasks in the background — recurring research, monitoring, email triage, and follow-up jobs — with each run reporting back with results and using memory from earlier runs.
Is Automations a separate app or company?
No. Automations is a feature of Perplexity Computer, which is Perplexity's own agentic product. It is not a standalone software vendor and has no separate subscription.
Which Perplexity plans include Automations?
It is available to paid Perplexity plans that include Computer: Pro ($20/month), Max ($200/month), and Enterprise. The free Standard plan does not include Computer.
What can Automations trigger on?
Schedules (hourly, daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, custom — never more often than once per hour) and event triggers from Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear, and GitHub, with conditional filters on the events.
What is the difference between Computer and Comet?
No. Comet is Perplexity's AI-native browser. The Computer worker is the agentic layer that runs inside Perplexity and can also run from Comet's Work mode. They are separate products that connect.
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