How to Connect Multiple Google Drive Accounts to Perplexity
Want Perplexity working across more than one Google Drive? Perplexity’s Drive connector holds one Google account, and it only reads. Connect your Drives to Carly and you can add as many as you want, then one chat can search across all of them, and act in them too.
1. Add your Google Drive accounts to Carly
- Sign in at carlyassistant.com.
- Open carlyassistant.com/integrations.
- Find Google Drive, click Connect, and authorize the Drive.
- Click Connect again for the next one, and keep going for as many Drives as you want.
Authorization happens per account, so a personal Drive and a work Drive sit side by side as two real connections rather than one slot you keep re-authorizing.
Carly connects to thousands of apps, so while you are on that page you can add your inboxes, calendars, CRM, and anything else you want Perplexity to reach through the same connector.
2. Add Carly as a custom remote connector
Perplexity shipped Bring Your Own Connector for Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers in March 2026. That is how Perplexity reaches the Drives you just authorized:
- Open Settings → Connectors.
- Select + Custom connector.
- Choose Remote.
- Enter a name and
https://carlyassistant.com/mcp/as the MCP server URL. - Choose the authentication option and acknowledge the third-party connector risk.
- Add the connector and finish authorization.
Perplexity’s remote connector guide supports HTTPS servers over Streamable HTTP or SSE. Enterprise administrators can share a connector across the organization and decide whether members may add their own; that member permission is disabled by default.
What one chat can do afterwards
- Search a personal Gmail Drive and a work Workspace Drive in the same question.
- Say which account each copy of a document lives in.
- File, rename or move a document in the Drive you name.
- Pull the term dates out of a contract the moment it lands, not at the next hourly poll.
- Reach a Shared Drive that the native connector never documents either way.
- Turn a new file into an email, a task and a calendar hold in one pass.
Nothing is merged. Each Google identity keeps its own authorization, and every Drive stays individually addressable.
What the connector actually does
Two different things get called “connecting Drive to Perplexity” and only one of them is the connector. Perplexity’s Google Drive help article describes the connector as querying your Drive through Google’s API in real time, accessing only files returned by the API based on your search query. The other thing is uploading a file into a thread or a Project through the vertical ellipsis and Upload, or via Add from cloud, which is a one-off snapshot of one file. Readers who try the upload path and conclude the integration is weak have usually never enabled the connector.
The Google consent screen asks to “See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app”. That reads like write access. Perplexity’s documentation kills the inference in the next breath: the “edit, create, and delete” permissions enable the connector to maintain sync metadata, but Perplexity does not modify your Drive file content.
Nothing in Perplexity’s help centre states that a second Google account can be added, and nothing states that it cannot. There are two indirect signals, and neither is proof.
Perplexity has scheduling, not triggers. Scheduled Tasks live inside Computer, at Computer then Tasks, and any recurring cadence is allowed as long as it runs no more often than once per hour, with sub-hourly cadences listed as not supported.
| Your situation | Native path in Perplexity |
|---|---|
| One Google account, many folders | Yes, on Pro or above |
| One Google account, a whole Drive at once | No, adding entire Drives is not supported |
| Personal Gmail Drive plus a work Workspace Drive | Undocumented, plan for one at a time |
| A Shared Drive or “Shared with me” | Undocumented, test it yourself |
| Changing or filing a document | Read-only by vendor statement |
| Acting the moment a file lands | No, the floor is an hourly poll |
Native Perplexity versus Carly
| Need | Perplexity | Carly |
|---|---|---|
| Search one Google Drive account | Yes, connector on Pro and above | Yes |
| Change, file or rename a document | Read-only by vendor statement | Yes, per your instruction |
| High-precision search over huge file counts | Yes, on Enterprise | Standard search |
| Hold a personal Drive and a work Drive at once | Undocumented | Yes, connected separately |
| Act the moment a file lands in a folder | No, hourly poll is the floor | Yes, on the event |
| Answer with web search alongside your files | Yes | Files and apps, not web research |
Carly authorizes per account, so a personal Drive and a work Drive are two real connections and a single instruction can reach across them. It fires when the file lands rather than waiting for the next hourly poll, which is the difference between a 9:05 document being handled at 9:05 and at 10:00.
Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Connect the accounts at carlyassistant.com/integrations, then point Perplexity at carlyassistant.com/mcp.
Quick fixes
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| The second Google account has nowhere to go | Connect both to Carly and reach them through the custom connector |
| An older FAQ says Pro has no syncing and no Projects | The newer Drive article says both work on Pro; the newer article wins |
| A file is refused as too large | The Pro FAQ quotes 40MB and the Enterprise pages 50MB; assume the lower one |
| Adding a whole Drive fails | Adding entire Drives isn’t currently supported; add folders instead |
| Custom connector option is missing | Ask the Enterprise admin to enable member-created custom connectors |
Frequently asked questions
Can Perplexity connect to two Google Drive accounts?
Not through its own connector, which is undocumented in both directions and sits beside a Google connector documented as querying only one primary calendar. Authorize both Drives in Carly and add Carly once as a custom remote connector, and a single chat reaches both.
Is the Perplexity Google Drive connector read-only?
Yes, by Perplexity’s own statement. The consent screen asks for edit, create and delete scopes, but the documentation says those exist to maintain sync metadata and that Perplexity does not modify your Drive file content. Anything that has to change a file runs through Carly.
Does Perplexity do anything when a file lands in Drive?
No. Scheduled Tasks inside Computer run no more often than once per hour and sub-hourly cadences are explicitly unsupported, so the fastest native reaction is the next poll. Carly triggers on the event.
Does the Drive connector work on the free plan?
No. Perplexity lists it for Pro, Max, Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max, with Pro the self-serve entry point. Custom remote connectors need the same paid tiers.
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