Opera invites users to Neon AI browser with $19.99 monthly fee

Opera began sending invites Tuesday for Neon, a subscription web browser built around agentic artificial intelligence that can act across tabs and automate multistep tasks, the company said. The browser, available initially for Windows and macOS, will be offered to early users for a monthly fee of $19.99 and includes features Opera says are designed to let the browser perform actions on users behalf while working within their existing browser sessions.

Opera described several of Neons core capabilities. Neon Do is an agentic assistant that can navigate open tabs, pull information from pages, fill forms and pause for user input when required. Tasks are self contained workspaces that group related tabs, chats and context so the AI can analyze, compare and act across multiple sources at once. Cards are reusable prompt building blocks users can combine to automate recurring workflows. Opera also includes a Make tool to assemble small apps from prompts and a Chat interface that responds in the context of the page the user is viewing.

Krystian Kolondra, executive vice president for browsers at Opera, said the company built Neon for "everyone who uses AI extensively in their day to...