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Claude Fable 5 is now available in Chat for Opera Neon subscribers.

Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9 — their most capable model made publicly available to date. It's built for extended agentic work, handles software engineering, scientific research, and vision at state-of-the-art levels, and sits just below the yet unreleased Mythos 5 in raw capability.

Neon is model-agnostic, and Fable 5 takes its place alongside the best versions of every other major family — Gemini 3.5 Flash, GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 Pro, GROK 4.3, and more. Pick your model, run your agent.

Love to see what you do with it. Tell us how it works in the comments.

Your AI tools can now connect directly to your browser. In this video, Vasco and Henrik walk through what that actually means and how to set it up in Opera Neon.

They also cover the difference between headless and headful browsing, and why it matters that Neon is the browser you're already logged into. If you use Claude Code, Lovable, n8n, or any other tool that supports MCP as a client, you can connect it to Opera Neon.

Tell us how you use MCP in the community Discord!

Submitting applications to App Stores is a lot of work. AI can help you build the product, but shipping is still where the manual work usually starts. With Opera Neon as the browser execution layer, Claude Code can work with live browser context, move through the real app submission flow, and help push the release process forward.

MCP Connector extends your coding workflow into the browser — so your AI agent doesn’t stop at generation, but continues into the environment where real work gets finished. Connecting OperaNeon and MCP lets you essentially streamline this process. Here is the actual workflow.

Let's compare and publish real workflows in the Opera Neon community.

Vasco from the community team at Opera Neon explains a bit about the philosophy behind our model-agnostic strategy. Check it out!

We’re introducing the ability to use Opera Neon as an MCP client, and connect it to other remote MCP servers.

This means that you can now connect Neon to an app, service or database that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). At the moment only interactions in Neon Do are able to utilize a remote MCP server, and thus be used as an MCP client.

This functionality supports the OAuth protocol for authorizing Opera Neon to connect with third-party services. This update follows the prior introduction of Opera Neon’s capability to become an MCP server to which you can connect other AI clients (such as Claude MCP client).

Now you can also connect Opera Neon (as the client) to an MCP server. Check out a full intro and how-to at https://www.operaneon.com/news/connect-opera-neon-to-mcp-servers and update your browser to the latest version to get started!

And tell us your go-to MCP servers in the ⁠🔌┃neon-mcp-connectors channel! on our Discord

We've added Claude Opus 4.8 — Anthropic's most capable model yet — to Neon's model lineup.

What that means for you:

• Sharper agentic reasoning for multi-step tasks that actually hold together
• Stronger long-context performance so it keeps track across bigger jobs
• Smoother handling of the complex, open-ended workflows you throw at Neon

It's live now — just select Opus 4.8 in your Neon Chat model selector and put it to work.

Tell us what you build with it in the community Discord

Neon Do can now save assistant responses directly as editable Google Docs.

When Neon Do gives you something useful — a plan, draft, report, or checklist, — you no longer need to copy and paste it manually. Just click the new Save as Google Doc action under the response, next to the PDF option, and Neon will create a new Google Docs document for you.

The document opens automatically, ready to edit, share, or collaborate on.

To use it, you’ll need to connect your Google account first. If it is not connected yet, Neon will guide you to Settings → Privacy → Connect Google Account.

spent the last few weeks actually testing every automation tool people keep recommending and here's my honest read for may 2026

run automations for ~30 small business clients, mostly ecomm and agencies. tired of the recycled "top 10" lists with last year's prices and dead tools, so here's what i'm actually running and what i bailed on. prices verified this month.

quick picks if you don't want to read the whole thing:

• self-hosting → n8n, full stop
• non-technical client → zapier (you'll regret it at scale but it ships fast)
• developer writing agent code → composio
• volume on a budget → make
• need the workflow to actually think → gumloop

now the actual notes.

n8n

this thing went nuclear in the last 8 months. SAP took a strategic stake on may 13, valuation $5.2B, embedded into joule studio. 183k github stars, 1.7m monthly devs. self-hosted is free, cloud starts at $24.

what changed my mind: their AI agent node + memory + vector store combo is genuinely the best multi-step orchestration i've used. handled a 14-step lead enrichment → scoring → crm sync that gumloop choked on and was unaffordable on zapier.

learning curve is real. if you're coming from zapier expecting drag-and-done, budget a weekend. but once you get past that wall the ceiling is higher than anything else here.

zapier

still where i put clients who refuse to learn anything new. 8,000+ apps, agent builder is fine for basics, native MCP support with anthropic is in. free tier = 100 tasks/mo, paid starts at $29.99.

it scales painfully. i have one client paying $340/mo for what costs me $19/mo on make. fastest tool to ship a working flow (had a lead capture live in 12 minutes last week) but it's basically the only thing it's still uniquely best at.

make

$9 for 10k ops is still the best $/workflow ratio in the space. visual canvas handles branching better than zapier, i have a 17-node support routing flow that would be a nightmare in zaps.

dark side: debugging. when something breaks at node 12 you'll spend an afternoon figuring out why.

composio

if you're using claude, codex, or any LLM with tool-use, composio is the cleanest way to connect it to your actual app stack. single MCP server, and suddenly your agent has access to slack, outlook, hubspot, github, notion and 1,000+ more in minutes. no oauth flows, no credential management, no weekend lost writing glue code.

free dev tier. this is what i now hand to any client who wants an AI agent that actually does things in the real world, not just generates text. if you're not using an LLM with tool-use, skip it. if you are, it's the obvious answer.

gumloop

biggest surprise of the test. $50m series b from benchmark in march, customers include shopify, ramp, instacart, samsara.

what they do that nobody else does as well: LLM reasoning inside the flow node, not bolted on as a "call openai" step. fed it a rambling 400-word customer email, extracted order #, sentiment, urgency, suggested response template. zapier and make literally cannot do this natively.

$37/mo. specialized. don't use it for plumbing, use it for the decision step in the middle of your plumbing.

lindy

"ai employees" framing. $49/mo. good if you want to delegate one whole function (inbox triage, lead qual) instead of stitching flows.

trade-off: you're stuck in lindy's mental model. for a client doing pure email triage it's been great. for anything custom across many apps i go straight to n8n.

relay

the human-in-the-loop one. $9/mo. 5.0/5 on g2 from 200+ reviews — i was skeptical until i used it.

approval gates are first-class, not duct-taped on. for a healthcare client where every patient comm needs human sign-off, this saved me writing custom logic in three other tools. smaller integration catalog though, you'll hit "have to use a webhook" pretty fast for niche apps.

activepieces

budget zapier clone. cloud from $5/flow, free self-hosted. clean UI, MCP support, used internally by sequoia/roblox/docusign apparently.

way smaller community than n8n, fewer templates. if you're cost-cutting and don't need n8n's complexity, this is the move.

relevance ai

free tier, $19/mo. no-code agent builder, leans into research and data analysis.

honestly don't reach for this often. fine for marketing teams that want a custom AI workforce without engineers, but the agent template constraints get annoying fast for anything ambitious.

langflow

149k github stars, v1.9 added MCP server mode so every flow becomes a tool another agent can call. that's actually huge.

caveat: this is for LLM pipelines and RAG, not "connect 50 saas tools" automation. don't try to replace zapier with it. if you're building an agent stack and want OSS with proper MCP, this is the pick.

stuff i tried and dropped:

• pabbly connect: still no native LLM features as of may
• workato: enterprise only, opaque pricing, weak AI orchestration vs the new wave
• tray ai: traditional iPaaS, no embedded LLM reasoning
• power automate: AI features paywalled behind premium licenses
• IFTTT: it's 2026, move on

my actual current stack:

• n8n self-hosted for core orchestration (free)
• gumloop for the AI reasoning nodes ($37)
• composio for client agent projects (free tier still works)
• make for two legacy clients i haven't migrated yet ($9)

~$50/mo total for what used to be a $400+/mo zapier bill across clients.

r/OperaNeon is where we share early features, discuss workflows, and keep tabs on where Neon is headed and listen to your feedback. If you're interested in where AI and browsers are heading, this is the room.

[Join r/OperaNeon →]

From Deep Research PDFs to generated webpages, videos, images, MAKE outputs and pipelines — this update is about making sharing more transparent and intentional, especially as Neon becomes more powerful for work, research, and creation.

When you choose to share, Neon creates a public link you can copy and manage anytime. You can also see and control all shared files in Settings → Shared files.

A few important notes:
• Shared artefacts are accessible to anyone with the link
• Unshared artefacts stay private by default
• Deleting the related conversation or your Neon account removes the generated data and disables public access

More control. Better transparency. Safer sharing.

Every Thursday at 18:00 CET, we’re doing a small first-come, first-served discount drop in the Opera Neon Discord.

This week, we’re giving out 10 discounted Opera Neon subscriptions in the Vault channel: 50% off for the first three months.

It’s mainly for people who are curious about Neon but want a lower-friction way to try it, ask questions, and see what the community is building.

Join through the Opera Neon Community page

Grok 4.3 is now available in the Neon Chat model selector, alongside GPT 5.5, Opus 4.7, Gemini and Deepseek. Bigger brain, longer memory, faster moves.

• 4× context (128k) for handling bigger tasks
• Stronger reasoning, coding, and math
• Faster responses, fewer errors
• Better at multi-step workflows and tool use

Give it something messy. It’ll figure it out.

You can now export chats into a fully editable Google Doc with one click — perfect for drafts, reports, notes, research, and collaborative work.

Just hit the new “Save as Google Doc” button under a response, next to PDF export.

If your Google account is connected, Neon creates and opens the document automatically.

No more copy-paste workflows.
Just generate → save → keep working.

🧠 Browser-aware memory has come to AI Chat.

AI Chat can now understand more of your live browser context — including your open tabs and recent browsing history — making it far more useful for everyday browsing workflows.

Ask things like:
“Do I already have this page open?”
“Show me my YouTube tabs.”
“Find the Amazon page I opened yesterday.”
or simply “List all my open tabs.”

Instead of starting every chat from zero, Neon Chat can now pull in relevant browser context when needed, making conversations feel far more aware, connected, and useful. 

This access is only used when needed and can be enabled or disabled in settings at any time — browser data is not automatically attached to every request.

A small step toward a browser AI that actually understands your browsing context.

Living in this world is accelerating a little bit, scary, and most of all confusing. In staying on top of the developments, you pick up new tools for evaluation all the time. And in a fairly short order your monthly bill starts racking up some substantial costs. As a solo operator many of us have the mindset of "you have to spend money to make money" and it's a natural necessity of any entrepreneur to be equipped with the correct tools.

I find myself holding on to subscriptions for reasons other than direct cost to effect benefit. I've simply grown accustomed to always having this tool here by the way, and now it feels uncomfortable getting rid of it even though it costs me money I could put on something else.

There are some tools I would never ever give up, like the one I'm using to write this, for instance. But I also keep some tools because I was given a discount for being an early adopter and I don't want to give it up because then if I came back to use the tool again, I would have to pay the regular rate even though I don't use the tool much these days.

Are you holding on to subscriptions for sentimental reasons? If so, which ones?