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Lightpanda

AI-native headless web browser

lightpanda.io

Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded year: 2022
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 10
Industry: Software

Last updated October 21

Latest news about Lightpanda

In short: Lightpanda released version 1.0 of its lightweight headless browser for AI agents, exiting beta.

Company announcements

October 2 Lightpanda

Lightpanda announces version 1.0 for production with default CORS enforcement

The release passes 1.7 million web tests, enforces cross-origin security by default, and ships V8 15.5. Adoption includes major AI agent frameworks.

June 17 Lightpanda

Lightpanda introduces Lightpanda Agent and PandaScript for browser automation

It collapses four tools into one binary, using LLM at buildtime and generating reproducible scripts.

May 7 Lightpanda

Lightpanda becomes Hermes browser backend

Replaces heavy Chrome for server use with automatic fallback. Thanks Nous team and Kshitij Kapoor.

May 5 Lightpanda

Lightpanda launches Worker support

Fetch, XHR work in Workers. importScripts ships. Scheduling shares with main thread. Modern web apps run cleaner.

Media coverage

October 21 Jacar

Lightpanda vs Obscura and Chrome headless for agents

Lightpanda vs Obscura versus Chrome headless on arm64 with Playwright and Puppeteer: which tests each one passes, literal errors and which to choose for a...

October 19 Linuxiac

Lightpanda 1.0 Released as Lightweight Headless Browser Exits Beta

Lightpanda 1.0 is out of beta after two years of development, bringing improved web compatibility, stronger security, and production readiness.

October 2 heise online

Lightpanda: A browser for machines instead of humans

Lightpanda 1.0.0 brings the Classic WebDriver for automation tasks. CORS is enforced by default, and new Web APIs are added.

April 29 Geeky Gadgets

Meet the 64MB Browser Built Entirely for AI Agents and Automation : Lightpanda

Discover how Lightpanda, a 64MB headless browser built in Zig, offers 9x faster speeds and 16x less memory usage than Chrome for AI web scraping.

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