On February 25, 2026, Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer. It’s competing with OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai/) in that it can work independently — give it a task or tasks and just let it run…on its own…in the cloud…without you having to ride herd on it every minute. It’s yet another feature that’s only available to paid accounts.

Computer is available in a desktop browser — my desktop app doesn’t show Computer as an option yet. And, on top of everything else, it requires you to purchase tokens to use it. That’s right, even though it’s only available to paid accounts, you still have to pay something extra to use it.

What could you do with it? Well, you could have it collect the latest news or financial headlines overnight and make them available at a specific time in your Perplexity account. Or, if you want to hook it up to a GMail account, it can email the results to you. And, remember, everything you have ut do will cost you tokens. You can set up a spending limit and ask it to refill when your tokens start to run low but, still, it costs extra.

For that extra cash, it will use various AIs. By default, it uses Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 but it can use Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT 5,4 and GPT 5.3 Codex. It can generate images using Nano Banana and videos using Sora 2 and Veo 3.1. You can select the AI just by asking for it

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