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Perplexity Launches Comet Enterprise Browser with Silent MDM Deploy and Opt-In CrowdStrike Security

· by Pondero Newsdesk

The short version

Perplexity made Comet Enterprise generally available on August 27, giving IT admins MDM-based silent deployment, centralized AI agent permission controls, and opt-in CrowdStrike Falcon security. Plans start at $40 per seat per month.

Perplexity Launches Comet Enterprise Browser with Silent MDM Deploy and Opt-In CrowdStrike Security

Enterprise IT teams can now silently deploy Perplexity's Comet AI browser across macOS and Windows fleets via existing MDM infrastructure and set hard limits on what the browser's built-in agent is allowed to do. Perplexity made the managed enterprise edition available on August 27, 2026, per the Perplexity blog.

What

Comet Enterprise adds a governance layer on top of the standard Comet browser. A silent installer deploys to any number of devices via existing MDM tools, with no employee-side prompts required. Administrators can then set agent permissions at three levels: full browser control, read-only page access, or no AI actions at all. Domain-specific exceptions are configurable to carve out approved sites.

The CrowdStrike integration is opt-in and included in the enterprise subscription at no additional charge. Built on CrowdStrike's Seraphic acquisition, per a March 2026 CrowdStrike press release, the Falcon platform adds extension risk scoring, data loss prevention, and detection of suspicious files and links. Perplexity states that no enterprise data is used to train its models.

Audit logs are available only at scale: accounts need at least 50 Enterprise Pro seats or one Enterprise Max seat to access them. The browser supports Windows 10 and later (x64 and ARM64) and macOS 13 and later (Intel and Apple Silicon). Mobile Comet apps are not part of the enterprise offering.

Pricing runs $40 per seat per month for Enterprise Pro and $325 per seat per month for Enterprise Max, per August 27 coverage by Dawn Liphardt. Five early customers were named: Fortune, AWS, AlixPartners, Gunderson Dettmer, and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Why it matters

Most AI tooling deployed at the employee level sits outside IT's standard control plane. Comet Enterprise puts an AI-native browser into that control plane: Chromium-based, MDM-deployable, and manageable with the same policy infrastructure organizations use for Chrome enterprise. Teams running regulated workloads who have hesitated on Comet because they could not audit or restrict agent actions now have a deployment path.

The opt-in CrowdStrike layer removes a common procurement friction point. Security teams that need DLP and extension vetting at the browser level can enable it without a separate contract or vendor. Teams that do not require that layer avoid adding another agent to their fleet.

The $40/seat entry tier sits in the range of standard enterprise SaaS (Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Slack Pro). Smaller deployments that need audit logs face a 50-seat Pro minimum; one Max seat at $325 satisfies that threshold instead.

The five named early customers span media, cloud, consulting, legal, and venture, which suggests the product cleared multiple compliance review processes before general availability.

What to watch next

Perplexity's help documentation covers Windows MDM deployment; macOS MDM documentation arrived more recently, suggesting the macOS rollout path may still be maturing. Full parity between the two platforms on policy granularity is the near-term deployment question for mixed-OS organizations. On the competitive side, Microsoft controls both a major enterprise browser (Edge) and an AI assistant (Copilot) and has not yet shipped a comparable policy layer that treats AI agent permissions as a first-class MDM concern.

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