Computer Use Agents

Perplexity

Perplexity Computer

Cloud-hosted general-purpose agent that orchestrates work across many models in parallel, spawning subagents per task.

Perplexity's cloud 'digital worker'. Rather than one model driving a machine, it routes each part of a job to whichever of its available models suits it and can spawn subagents for sub-problems. Aimed at long multi-step projects — building a site, drafting a report, working through a dataset — rather than single actions. Gated behind Perplexity's top subscription tier.

Best for

Long, multi-step projects where the work benefits from more than one model.

Watch out

Cloud-only and top-tier subscription only. A product rather than a platform — there is no way to embed it.

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