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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: 5–10

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Latest news about Lightpanda

In short: Lightpanda expanded its headless browser capabilities for AI agents, improved performance metrics, and secured pre-seed funding.

Company announcements

Yesterday 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.

April 24 Lightpanda

Lightpanda enables DeveloperHub.io to cut prerender load by 10x

DeveloperHub.io switched from headless Chrome to Lightpanda, achieving 4x faster page serving, 10x lower load average, and eliminating restarts and CPU alarms. Two issues were fixed for compatibility.

Media coverage

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.

April 2 LinuxToday

Lightpanda Promises a Faster, Lightweight Alternative to Headless Chrome

Experience the speed of Lightpanda, a lightweight alternative to Headless Chrome, optimizing your web tasks with improved performance and efficiency.

March 29 GitHub

Recommend lightpanda, a faster, more memory-friendly headless browser, compatible with Puppeteer #21543

Customer stories Events & webinars Ebooks & reports Business insights GitHub Skills...

March 15 Medium

Lightpanda: The Headless Browser That’s Making Chrome Look Overweight | by Sonu Yadav | Coding Nexus | Mar, 2026 | Medium

Lightpanda: The Headless Browser That’s Making Chrome Look Overweight I’ve been building web scrapers and automation tools for a while now. And if there’s one...

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