Opera Neon

Opera Neon is the AI-first browser from Opera, the company behind Opera One and Opera GX. It launched to paying testers in September 2025 and opened to everyone in December 2025. It's built around an AI that can act, not just answer: Neon Chat answers questions, Neon Do takes over a tab and clicks, scrolls and fills in forms to finish a job, and Neon Make builds things like reports, simple web pages and images in the background. Tasks keep the tabs and chat for one project together, and Cards save prompts you reuse.

Since August 2026 there are two plans. Free gets you the browser, a basic chat, ad blocker and VPN, and lets you connect your own AI, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to control the browser through MCP or Opera's command line tool. Standard at $19.90 a month adds Neon's own agents, deep research, scheduled tasks, long memory, Google connectors and a choice of top models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, plus image and video generation. Pick Neon if you want a browser agent and like having several top models in one subscription; pick Comet if you want a capable free AI browser on every device; pick Dia if your work lives in Slack and Atlassian.

The catch is price and polish. Comet and Opera's own One and GX give you a good AI sidebar for nothing, so the $19.90 is for the agents. Reviewers like Neon Do but find the three separate modes confusing, and it's desktop only, still described by Opera as experimental. Like every agentic browser it can be tricked by hidden instructions on a web page: Brave researchers showed this in 2025 and Opera fixed that case the same day, but says the risk can't be fully removed. Keep the agent away from banking and anything you can't undo.

• Founders
• Marketers
• Researchers
• Power users

Business owners and power users who want an AI that does web tasks for them and are happy to pay for access to several top models in one place.

• Neon Do

  Takes over a tab and clicks, scrolls and fills in forms to finish a task while you watch, and can run on a schedule.

• Neon Make

  Builds things in the background, such as research reports, simple web pages, code and images, from a prompt.

• Deep research

  Searches across many sources and writes a report, with a quicker one-minute research mode too.

• Tasks and Cards

  Tasks keep a project's tabs and chat together; Cards save prompts you reuse, like 'compare these with my budget'.

• Top models in one place

  Standard includes recent models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, plus Nano Banana Pro, Veo 3.1 and Sora 2 for images and video.

• Bring your own AI

  Free plan: connect Claude, ChatGPT or other agents through MCP or Opera's command line tool so they can use the browser.

• Free

  Free

  Trying Neon, or letting your own AI agent use a browser.

  • The Neon browser for Windows and Mac
  • Basic AI chat about pages
  • MCP connector and Browser CLI
  • Ad blocker and free VPN
• Our pick

  Standard

  $19.90/mo

  Anyone who wants Neon's agents to do web tasks for them.

  • Neon Do and Neon Make agents
  • Deep research and scheduled tasks
  • Choice of top OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models
  • Image and video generation, long memory, Google connectors

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 22 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Opera Neon can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Book and fill in the boring stuff

   Ask Neon Do to find a venue with free dates and fill in the enquiry form, then check it before sending.

2. 2

   Competitor research

   Run deep research on three competitors and get a written summary of pricing, offers and reviews.

3. 3

   Turn research into a page

   Have Neon Make turn your notes into a simple comparison page or one-page report to share.

4. 4

   Give Claude a browser

   On the free plan, connect Claude or ChatGPT so they can read and work in your browser tabs.

Neon replaces Chrome for the work you want automated and sits alongside your normal browser for the rest. If you already pay for ChatGPT or Claude, the free plan lets them drive Neon; otherwise Standard bundles several top models. For long unattended jobs on a cloud computer, Manus, ChatGPT Work or Claude Cowork go further.

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