Following a few months’ testing, Norway-based browser firm Opera has lastly made its AI-powered browser, Neon, out there to the general public — although you’ll need to shell out $19.90 monthly to make use of it.
Opera first unveiled Neon earlier this 12 months in Might and launched it in early entry to pick customers in October.
Much like different AI-first browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and The Browser Firm’s Dia, Neon bakes in an AI chatbot into its interface, letting you ask it solutions about pages, use it to create mini apps and movies, and get it to do duties for you. The browser makes use of your searching historical past as context, so you are able to do issues like ask it to fetch particulars from a YouTube video you watched final week or the publish that you simply learn yesterday.
You too can construct “Cards” for repeatable duties utilizing prompts, and the browser affords a deep analysis agent that may get you detailed details about any subject. The browser additionally has a brand new tab organizational function referred to as Duties, that are contained workspaces of AI chats and tabs. This function is extra like Tab Teams mixed with Arc Browser’s Areas function, which has its personal context for AI.
Along with the AI options, the subscription offers customers entry to prime fashions like Gemini 3 Professional, GPT-5.1, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Professional. Subscribers may even get entry to Opera’s Discord group and direct entry to its builders.
“Opera Neon is a product for people who like to be the first to the newest AI tech. It’s a rapidly evolving project with significant updates released every week. We’ve been shaping it with our Founders community for a while and are now excited to share the early access to it with a larger audience,” Krystian Kolondra, EVP of browsers at Opera, stated in a press release.
The corporate famous that its different merchandise, like Opera One, Opera GX, and Opera Air, even have free AI options, like a chat-based assistant.
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In the meantime, browser incumbents are taking a slower strategy to including AI options to their merchandise. Earlier this week, Google detailed the safety work it’s doing to guard customers towards completely different assault surfaces that agentic options are susceptible to, and Courageous stated on Wednesday it’s previewing its agentic options in a nightly construct, and gives an remoted searching profile for utilizing AI options so customers can preserve their common, non-AI utilization separate.
