Basic information
What is Opera Neon, and what does an agentic browser actually do?
Neon is our AI‑first browser—an active helper that joins you as you browse. It doesn’t just answer questions; it can understand your goals and carry out tasks on your behalf. In short, it amplifies the browsing experience and can actually do things for you.
What models power Neon?
Neon runs on Opera’s AI engine, which is model‑agnostic. We use different models depending on the task. Today, our primary providers are OpenAI and Google’s general‑purpose models. We also use specialized models for image generation, speech‑to‑text, text‑to‑speech, and so on. The agent picks the right model for the job—if you ask it to generate an image, it calls an image model; if you ask it to research, it uses the model we’ve found best for browsing and synthesis. This mix can evolve over time.
Features Explained
What are the main features of Opera Neon?
Neon centers on three experiences:
Neon Chat: A chat assistant that becomes far more powerful when it has context. It can see the pages and tasks you have opened and reason over them. Ask it to summarize an article, compare products across tabs, or find a timestamp in a video, and it uses what you’re already looking at.
Neon Make: The creation engine that can make things—digital assets such as web pages (which we can host), simple games, travel guides, research output, quizzes, and various file types, potentially including audio. When you ask it to create, Neon spins up a clean environment in the cloud, installs whatever tools are needed (for example, Python packages for math), and shows you what it’s doing as it builds. Creations are stored in Neon and are accessible from the start page and your chats with Neon.
Neon Do: The agent that executes tasks on the live web. You describe the outcome you want, and Neon plans the steps and carries them out in your browser—opening pages, searching, clicking, filling out forms—which you can watch and can take control of at any point.
What are tasks in Neon?
Tasks are a core concept in Neon. A task is a group of tabs that share a common context, used together towards a goal—say, “Plan a trip to Lisbon” or “Summarize the top 10 YouTube videos about Opera.” Within a task (a group of tabs), Neon can open and manage multiple tabs and keep their context tied together. That shared task context is always on: ask, “What should I prioritize on this itinerary?” and Neon knows it’s about your Lisbon task, your open hotel and flight pages, and so on. You can create a task explicitly, or Neon can suggest it when it detects multi‑step work.
Getting Started & Availability
Is Opera Neon a free browser?
Opera Neon is a premium product and requires a subscription.
Do I need an Opera account to use the AI features?
Yes, you will need an Opera account to use Neon, as some browser functionality requires basic data from the account. An Opera account is completely free and creating it only takes a minute. You can create a free account easily by visiting the Opera account main page.
What platforms and languages does Opera Neon support?
Opera Neon is currently available for macOS and Windows. You can interact with AI chat and use prompts in any language, but the user interface is currently available in English only.
Will there be a mobile version of Opera Neon?
Yes, Neon will have a mobile experience in the future.
How can I understand what Neon Do is doing while it’s operating?
Neon Do shows you the steps it plans to take. You can also observe what it’s doing in real time by watching the web page(s) it’s operating on. At any point, you can intervene—pause the process, make changes, or redirect its actions.
What control do I have over the creation process in Neon Make?
You can type in prompts to generate various forms of digital content. Once a generation process is complete, you can interact with Neon Make to modify, refine, or regenerate the output based on your preferences.
Where are the final assets stored in Neon Make?
Generated files are stored in the Files folder, which you can access by clicking 
. If you’ve deployed a web application, you’ll find the link under Deployed application.
Who owns the intellectual property of content created with the Neon Make feature?
Opera does not own nor claim any ownership of the output, including any intellectual property rights, and cannot guarantee such rights. Use of Opera Neon and AI Agentic features is at your own risk. You are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur while using Opera Neon, including the input that you upload, as well as any use of the output received from Opera Neon. Read more in the Opera Neon Terms of Service.
User Control
Can I teach Neon my personal preferences for things like shopping or travel?
Yes. Neon uses AI memory that learns high‑level preferences over time—where you live, basic likes/dislikes, and so on. It’s early days; personalization will get better as we go.
Will my interactions be used to train your models?
No. We don’t train models on user data. Opera’s AI engine orchestrates third‑party models, and our agreements with providers such as OpenAI and Google prohibit them from using Opera users’ data to train their models.
How can I monitor what the agent is doing?
You can see Neon Do operate in real time. There are buttons and visual cues—a subtle glow around active tasks and a side‑panel view showing the plan and next steps. You can pause, stop, or take over at any time.
Neon Make runs server‑side and can take time (15–20 minutes or more) because it spins up a fresh environment and installs tools. You can start it, step away, and later see the status and results in the side panel. Status transparency will be further improved as we continue to develop this feature.
Neon Chat displays which tab(s) or task it’s referencing within the chat interface, so you always know what context it’s using.
Privacy & Security:
How does Opera Neon handle user privacy and data security?
User privacy and security is the first priority in Opera Neon. To ensure your privacy is respected, we have designed Neon so that sensitive information such as your log-in credentials, passwords, credit card details, and cookies as much as possible stay on your device and are never sent to our AI Engine.
In order to function, Neon Do needs to understand the content of webpages relevant to the tasks you assign it. To achieve this, Neon avoids as much as possible using screenshots of your browser. Instead, it utilizes the webpage’s structure (DOM tree and layout data).
When using Neon Do, it’s only the webpage content that is sent to Opera’s and OpenAI’s servers. All such information is deleted from Opera’s and OpenAI’s servers after 30 days. We never train models on your data.
Does Neon run locally or in the cloud?
Neon Do runs locally within your browser and directly interacts with web pages. However, it uses cloud-based large language models (LLMs) to generate the plans and instructions it follows. Neon Make runs primarily in the cloud, though its user interface is integrated into the Neon Browser.
How does Neon handle sensitive actions like payments or logins while its agents are operating?
Neon Do operates within your browser session—for example, pages you’re logged into and other session-based sites. If you sign into a site and enter your credentials, those credentials are not sent to any third-party servers (such as Opera’s). The same is true for payment details, which stay within your browser session and are never sent to Opera or any third‑party servers.
What is Opera Neon’s data retention policy, and how can a user view or delete their activity history?
Data within Neon Chat and Neon Do is retained for 30 days, allowing you to return to and continue chats and agentic workflows. After 30 days, dormant chats and workflows are deleted from our servers automatically. Your chats will still be accessible locally on your device, and you can delete them according to your preferences.
When you create new content with Neon Make, the associated data is retained on our servers for six months, after which it is deleted automatically.
You can review and delete your Neon Chat and Neon Do activity through your chat window. You can also delete your Opera account any time, which will also delete all Neon data associated with that account.