Opera wants you to pay $20 per month to use its AI-powered Neon browser


After a few months of testing, Norway-based browser company Opera has finally made its AI-powered browser, Neon, available to the public — although you’ll have to pay $19.90 a month to use it.

Opera unveiled Neon for the first time Earlier this year in May And launched it in Early access for select users in October.

Similar to other AI-first browsers like Guilty of confusion, OpenAI Atlasand Dia Browser Companythe Neon inserts an AI-powered chatbot into its interface, letting you ask it answers about pages, use it to create mini apps and videos, and task it with doing tasks for you. The browser uses your browsing history as context, so you can do things like ask it to fetch details from the YouTube video you watched last week or the post you read yesterday.

You can also create “cards” for recurring tasks using prompts, and the browser offers a deep search agent that can provide you with detailed information on any topic. The browser also has a new tab organization feature called Tasks, which contains workspaces for AI conversations and tabs. This feature is very similar to built-in tab groups Spaces feature in Arc Browserwhich has its own context for artificial intelligence.

In addition to the 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 will also get access to Opera’s Discord community and direct access to its developers.

“Opera Neon is a product for people who like to be the first to use the latest AI technologies. It’s a rapidly evolving project with important updates released every week. We’ve been crafting it with our community of founders for a while and now we’re excited to share early access to it with a broader audience,” Christian Colondra, Executive Vice President of Browsers at Opera, said in a statement.

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The company noted that its other products, such as Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Air, also have free AI features, such as a chat-based assistant.

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Meanwhile, browser makers are taking a slower approach to adding AI features to their products. Earlier this week, Google detailed The security work you do To protect users from the different attack surfaces to which proxy features are vulnerable, Brave said on Wednesday that it is previewing its features Agent features in night constructionand provides an isolated browsing profile for the use of AI features so that users can separate their normal and non-AI usage.

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