Lightpanda

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Lightpanda Compute

caveatemailno cardDrequest-rate

lightpanda.io/pricing · browser host · compute/lightpanda · JSON · compare

Free tier	Explorer: USD 0 for ever, 10 browser hours a month, 5 concurrent sessions, bring your own proxy unit hours; metered on wall-clock; a purpose-built headless engine rather than a Chromium instance
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	no session storage is described; the product is a stateless fetch-and-render engine
Egress	bring your own proxy; no proxy is included on the free plan
Identity	email a free signup; no card stated on the pricing page
Limits	request-rate 5 concurrent sessions on the free plan; 30 on Builder source per-object-cap 10 browser hours a month on the free plan; 300 on Builder source Builder is USD 19 a month for 300 hours, then USD 0.08 an hour
Binding	request-rate 10 browser hours a month is the allowance, and the engine's compatibility is the second wall
Interface	rest, cli a CDP-compatible endpoint for a headless engine
Tooling	Playwright and Puppeteer over CDP; the Lightpanda binary can also be self-hosted
Composes with	10 hours a month of a browser engine that renders without a full Chromium, so the time buys more pages
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The only free browser allowance here that recurs monthly with no card, and the engine is lighter than Chromium. The catch is compatibility: it is not a full browser and a site that needs one will not render.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD19.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD53.4 / month

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	lightpanda.io/pricing	Explorer is USD 0 for ever with 10 browser hours a month and 5 concurrent sessions
2026-10-22	lightpanda.io/pricing	Builder is USD 19 a month with 300 hours included, then USD 0.08 an hour

More fields (14)

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  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "wall-clock",
 "granularity": {
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 },
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  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "not stated"
 },
 "keep_rate": {
  "value": 0.0,
  "basis": "per browser hour",
  "source": "https://lightpanda.io/pricing"
 },
 "persistent_storage": {
  "included_gib": null,
  "price_gib_month": null,
  "durability": "none",
  "survives_stop": false,
  "survives_destroy": false,
  "max_retention": "none"
 },
 "network_out": {
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  "allow_inbound_listen": false,
  "ports": "CDP",
  "static_ip": null,
  "ipv6": null,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
 "m10h_usd": 19.0,
 "m24h_usd": 53.4,
 "price_arithmetic": "10 hours a month free; 300 h costs USD 19, which is 0.063 an hour",
 "price_note": "Builder at USD 19 a month includes 300 browser hours, then USD 0.08 an hour. 730 hours is 19 + 430(0.08) = 53.40.",
 "price_basis": "300 and 730 BROWSER HOURS, not a 2 vCPU shape. A browser host sells minutes of a remote browser, so these rows are not comparable with a sandbox row.",
 "burst_x": 1.0
}

Unknown or withheld values (3)

$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed