Overview

Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation The AI-native web browser built from scratch for machines. Not a fork. Not a patch. Fast, scalable web automation with a minimal memory footprint. 10x faster, 10x less RAM, and 100x better than Chrome headless. The project has 21K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

curl -L -o lightpanda https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser/releases/download/nightly/lightpanda-x86_64-linux && \
chmod a+x ./lightpanda

curl -L -o lightpanda https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser/releases/download/nightly/lightpanda-aarch64-macos && \
chmod a+x ./lightpanda

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

apt, brew, docker.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

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