Lightpanda | The headless browser

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The first browserfor machines, not humans

10x faster. 10x less memory. Instant startup.

Web automation is being held back

Web browsers lack the speed, durability, and security for AI workloads.

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Chrome wasn’t built for the cloud

  • Running Chrome in the cloud is expensive and slow.
  • You’re paying for decades of code built for people, not systems.

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Browsers are slow and brittle

  • Real-time automation shouldn't wait for browsers.
  • Chrome takes seconds to start, which multiply across every process.

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Shared state is a security risk

  • Automation needs isolated environments.
  • Traditional browsers carry persistent state, cookies & sessions across tasks.

AI agents

deserve a 100x better web browser

Built from scratch

Not reliant on existing browsers.

Created with Zig

Developed in a low-level system programming language designed for performance and efficiency.

Focused and opinionated

Purpose-built for headless operation, without rendering overhead.

Puppeteer requesting 100 pages from a local website on a AWS EC2 m5.large instance. See benchmark details

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Crawl at scale

  • Handle resource-intensive web scraping
  • Minimal CPU and memory footprint

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Build AI agents

  • Empower AI agents with web capabilities
  • Instant startup and fully embeddable

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Automate any website

  • Transform any website into a programmatic interface
  • JavaScript execution and web APIs

Cloud Offer

Engineered for your workflows

Scale effortlessly with your existing tools (Puppeteer, Playwright)

Lightpanda innovation,
Chrome reliability

Choose from Chrome or Lightpanda's browser to ensure all use cases are covered

import puppeteer from "puppeteer" // Replace puppeteer.launch with puppeteer.connect. const browser = await puppeteer.connect({ browserWSEndpoint: "wss://euwest.cloud.lightpanda.io/ws?token=YOUR_TOKEN", }) // The rest of your script remains the same. const page = await browser.newPage()

About Lightpanda

Building a web browser from scratch is a monumental challenge, one that few have attempted.

We took it on because automation and AI demand a fresh foundation, not wrappers on a legacy tech stack.

At our previous company, we scraped millions of web pages a day, and spent years navigating the pain of scaling scraping infrastructure with Chrome.

We knew the only real solution was to start over.

Lightpanda is here to change the game. We want to enable developers and businesses to do more with less.

We're building something ambitious and unconventional.

Join us.

Ambitious. Unconventional.

And just getting started

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