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 first unveiled Neon earlier this year in May and launched it in early access for select users in October.

Similar to other AI-first browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and The Browser’s Dia, Neon inserts an AI-powered chatbot into its interface, letting you ask it answers about pages, use it to create small apps and videos, and have it do 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 the tab groups built into Arc Browser’s Spaces feature, which has its own AI context.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, browser makers are taking a slower approach to adding AI features to their products. Earlier this week, Google detailed the security work it’s doing to protect users from the different attack surfaces that proxy features are vulnerable to, and Brave said on Wednesday that it’s previewing its proxy features in a nightly build, providing an isolated browsing profile for using AI features so users can keep their regular, non-AI usage separate.