Opera's Neon Ai Browser Now Available For $20/month - Packed With These Power User Features

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Opera's Neon AI browser was publically released connected Thursday.
• It comes pinch a hefty value tag, $19.90/month.
• Gartner precocious advised businesses to debar utilizing AI browsers.

Opera's AI-powered web browser, Neon, is now disposable to everyone, but it comes pinch a hefty value tag of $19.90 per period -- astir apt much than astir group are consenting to salary for a exertion still successful its infancy and pinch unresolved information risks.

Also: Use an AI browser? 5 ways to protect yourself from punctual injections - earlier it's excessively late

Unveiled successful October pinch exclusive waitlist access, Neon is "an experimental browser for AI powerfulness users," Opera wrote successful a press release published Thursday. The Norway-based package institution is hoping customers will beryllium consenting to salary for an AI browser that leverages aggregate frontier models and tin grip a assortment of web tasks. It's facing ample competition, though: Perplexity and OpenAI person some launched their ain free web browsers, called Comet and Atlas, respectively. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google person been embedding AI features much profoundly into Edge and Chrome.

All these caller products and upgrades are being sold arsenic an betterment to nan accepted web browsing experience, 1 that mostly hands nan reins complete to AI to grip boring and time-consuming tasks while humans beryllium backmost and, successful theory, attraction their attraction connected much important and fulfilling tasks. Browsers person go a captious portion of existent property successful nan ongoing AI golden rush, arsenic they service arsenic nan portal to nan internet. If building a chatbot is for illustration owning a ship, past building a web browser is for illustration owning nan ocean.

What Neon offers

Opera seems to understand that $19.90/month is simply a batch to inquire of nan mean consumer, hence nan "AI powerfulness users" angle.

"Opera Neon is simply a merchandise for group who for illustration to beryllium nan first to nan newest AI tech," Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browsers and European Fintech astatine Opera, said successful a statement. "It's a quickly evolving task pinch important updates released each week."

Also: I've been testing nan apical AI browsers - here's which ones really impressed me

The biggest perk is that it allows entree to a fistful of industry-leading AI models, including GPT-5.1, Gemini 3 Pro, and Nano Banana Pro, each of which ordinarily travel pinch their ain subscription fees for afloat and unlimited use. 

Neon comes pinch 4 specialized AI agents that tin grip a circumstantial class of tasks: 

• Chat: For having conversations conscionable arsenic you would pinch immoderate different chatbot.
• Do: To navigate websites and execute actions connected your behalf, specified arsenic booking a edifice preservation aliases flight.
• Make: To constitute codification and make images and different kinds of content.
• Opera heavy investigation supplier (or ODRA): To aggregate information, complete pinch sources, connected analyzable subjects into neatly packaged reports.

Paying nan monthly subscription interest besides unlocks rank to an exclusive Discord organization wherever users tin propose changes and interact straight pinch institution engineers to "help style nan browser's roadmap," according to nan company.

Neon tin beryllium downloaded here.

Security concerns

Letting AI return nan reins connected your integer life shouldn't beryllium done lightly.

When you usage an AI browser, you're granting it support to autonomously position and grip delicate individual accusation and make decisions connected your behalf -- and this tin sometimes spell awry. Earlier this month, Gartner published a report advising businesses not to usage AI browsers, arsenic it warns that these browsers could stock proprietary information pinch their developers' unreality servers and are susceptible to malicious punctual injection attacks, wherever 3rd parties instrumentality nan browsers into carrying retired actions that harm users.

Also: Gartner urges businesses to 'block each AI browsers' - what's down nan dire warning

Opera addressed these concerns successful an October blog post pursuing Neon's early entree debut: "Just arsenic agentic browsers unfastened up caller possibilities successful browsing and completing tasks online, truthful tin they beryllium susceptible to caller kinds of attacks that utilization vulnerabilities recovered successful AI agents," nan institution wrote. The station past outlined steps nan institution had taken to mitigate those risks, including a "prompt analysis" usability that scrutinizes prompts for imaginable threats.

It besides added a caveat: "It is important to admit that owed to nan non-deterministic quality of AI models, nan consequence of a successful punctual injection onslaught cannot beryllium wholly reduced to zero." In different words, usage astatine your ain risk.