Perplexity wants to turn your inbox into a personal secretary, if you’re willing to shell out serious cash.
The company just announced Email Assistant, a new AI agent designed to manage the mess that is your email, but the catch is that it lives behind the company’s top-tier Max subscription, which costs a jaw-dropping $200 a month.
That’s not a typo, two hundred dollars, every month, to let a robot boss around your inbox.
The pitch is straight out of a productivity fever dream. Perplexity says Email Assistant can automatically sort messages into neat categories, highlight what actually needs your attention, and even draft replies in your exact tone.
It’ll study how you normally write, whip up responses that sound like you, and then politely wait for you to approve them before hitting send. Lazy but classy.
Scheduling is where the real magic, and possibly your justification for that $200, comes in.
Got a meeting request buried in a chain of “Does Thursday work?” emails? Just loop in Email Assistant.
It will check your calendar, suggest times, and fire off invites, all without you lifting a finger.
Perplexity even promises daily summaries of key emails, meeting recaps, and a tidy list of priorities so you can focus on, well, anything but email.
For now, Email Assistant works only with Gmail and Outlook, and Perplexity swears it uses enterprise-grade encryption and won’t feed your private emails back into its AI models.
But let’s be honest: handing over your inbox to a bot takes a leap of faith (and a leap in your credit card bill).
Still, if you’ve ever stared at a 2,000-message backlog and thought, “What if someone else just handled this?”
Perplexity might have built your dream coworker, one that doesn’t take vacations but does charge more than some car payments.
The future of email might be smart, stylish, and stress-free, but it’s definitely not cheap.
Is Perplexity’s $200/month Email Assistant a reasonable price for high-level productivity automation, or are AI companies overestimating how much people will pay for convenience features? Do you think AI email management represents genuine value for busy professionals, or does it create another layer of digital dependency that might not be worth the cost? Tell us below in the comments, or reach us via our Twitter or Facebook.
