Norway-based browser company Opera has finally released its AI-powered browser Neon to the public after months of testing. However, you have to pay $19.90 per month to use it.
Opera first announced Neon in May of this year and opened early access to some users in October.
Like other AI-first browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and The Browser Company’s Dia, Neon includes an AI chatbot in its interface that you can ask for answers about pages, use it to create mini-apps and videos, and perform tasks. Browsers use your browsing history as context, so you can ask your browser to retrieve details from the YouTube video you watched last week or the post you read yesterday.
You can also use prompts to create “cards” for repeatable tasks. Your browser provides a detailed research agent that allows you to get detailed information on any topic. The browser also has a new tab organization feature called Tasks, which includes AI chat and a tab workspace. This feature is similar to Arc Browser’s space feature combined with tab groups, with its own context for AI.
In addition to AI features, the subscription gives users access to top models such as Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Pro. Subscribers also have access to Opera’s Discord community and direct access to developers.
“Opera Neon is for people who want to be among the first to take advantage of the latest AI technology. It’s a rapidly evolving project with significant updates released weekly. We’ve been shaping it with the Founders community for some time, and now we’re excited to share early access to it with even more users,” Krystian Kolondra, Opera’s vice president of browsers, said in a statement.
The company noted that other products such as Opera One, Opera GX, and Opera Air also have free AI features, such as chat-based assistants.
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Meanwhile, browser incumbents have taken a slower approach to adding AI capabilities to their products. Earlier this week, Google detailed the security measures it’s taking to protect users from the various attack surfaces to which the agent feature is susceptible, and Brave announced Wednesday that it’s previewing the agent feature in nightly builds and is offering a separate browsing profile for using the AI feature so users can separate regular non-AI usage.
