# Lightpanda Browser

> Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser built in Zig, designed for AI agents and browser automation with ultra-low memory usage and fast execution.

Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser written in Zig, purpose-built for AI agents, web scraping, and browser automation workloads. It focuses on minimal memory footprint and high-speed execution, making it well-suited for running large numbers of concurrent browser instances. The project is hosted on GitHub under the lightpanda-io organization and targets developers who need a lightweight alternative to Chromium-based headless browsers.

- **Open-source codebase** — *The full source is publicly available on GitHub under the lightpanda-io/browser repository, allowing community contributions and self-hosting.*
- **Built in Zig** — *Leverages Zig's low-level memory control for minimal RAM usage and fast startup times compared to Electron or Chromium-based solutions.*
- **Headless operation** — *Runs without a graphical display, making it ideal for server-side automation, scraping pipelines, and AI agent browsing tasks.*
- **AI agent–friendly** — *Designed to serve as the browsing layer for autonomous agents that need to navigate, extract, and interact with web content programmatically.*
- **Browser automation support** — *Provides the core primitives needed for scripted web interactions, DOM traversal, and page rendering without a full browser stack.*
- **Self-hostable** — *Can be compiled and deployed on Linux and other supported platforms directly from source, giving teams full control over their infrastructure.*

## Features
- Headless browser execution
- Ultra-low memory footprint
- Built in Zig for performance
- AI agent browsing support
- Web scraping and automation
- Self-hostable from source
- Open-source under public license

## Platforms
LINUX, WEB, API, CLI

## Pricing
Open Source

## Links
- Website: https://lightpanda.io
- Repository: https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/lightpanda-browser