Lightpanda
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
Our verdict
A usable project with some maintenance caveats. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-30, not from hands-on testing.
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation. The project is written primarily in Zig, released under AGPL-3.0, and has 34,314 stars and 1,626 forks on GitHub. 60 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-30. The latest tagged release is 0.3.7 (2026-08-16). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-30 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Language
- Zig
- Last push
- 2026-08-30
Releases
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0.3.70.3.7 -
0.3.60.3.6 -
0.3.50.3.5 -
0.3.40.3.4 -
0.3.30.3.3 -
0.3.20.3.2
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceAGPL-3.0
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNot published
Lightpanda does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales. Why we do this
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Price points are recorded when a price moves, not on a schedule, so a flat run means the price held. Release cadence comes from GitHub releases. A series appears only once we have watched it for long enough to have more than one observation.
User reviews
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Side by side
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightpanda this page | 7.3 | - | Yes | ||
| Crawl4AI | 7.7 | - | - | ||
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Questions
Is browser free?
Yes. browser advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does browser cost?
browser does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales.
Is browser open source?
Yes. browser is a public repository released under AGPL-3.0. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is browser scored here?
browser scores 7.3 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.