Opera has rolled out Neon, its AI-powered browser, but it comes with a price tag: $19.90 per month. After a period of testing, the Norway-based company has opened Neon to the public, making it the latest entry in the AI-browser space. The pricing places Neon alongside other AI-first browsers, but at a premium compared with many traditional options.
Neon follows in the footsteps of similar AI-centric browsers such as Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and The Browser Company’s Dia. Like its peers, Neon embeds an AI chatbot directly into the browser interface, enabling users to ask questions about current pages, craft mini-apps and videos, and delegate tasks to the AI. The AI considers your browsing history as context, so you can, for instance, pull details from a YouTube video you watched last week or summarize a post you read yesterday.
Beyond conversational help, Neon supports the creation of “Cards” for repeated tasks via prompts. It also includes a robust research agent designed to deliver in-depth information on any topic. A new feature, Tasks, organizes AI chats and tabs into contained workspaces, blending concepts from Tab Groups and Arc Browser’s Spaces to provide AI-specific context.
Subscribers gain access to advanced models like Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Pro. They also receive entry to Opera’s Discord community and direct lines to the company’s developers.
Opera frames Neon as a cutting-edge product for early adopters of AI tech. “Opera Neon is for people who want to be at the forefront of the latest AI capabilities. It’s a rapidly evolving project with frequent weekly updates. We’ve refined it with our Founders community and are now extending early access to a broader audience,” said Krystian Kolondra, Opera’s EVP of browsers.
Opera notes that other products in its lineup, such as Opera One, Opera GX, and Opera Air, also feature free, built-in AI helpers.
Industry peers are taking a more cautious route to integrating AI into their browsers. Recently, Google outlined the security measures it’s implementing to protect users from risks associated with agentic features. Brave has begun previewing its agentic capabilities in a nightly build and has introduced an isolated AI-enabled browsing profile to separate AI use from standard browsing.
Ivan Mehta covers global consumer tech for TechCrunch. He’s based in India and has previously contributed to outlets like HuffPost and The Next Web. You can reach him at im@ivanmehta.com or via an encrypted Signal message at ivan.42.
