# Hyperbrowser vs Lightpanda (slim)

> Hyperbrowser scores 67.1 (B) to Lightpanda's 61.6 (C) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hyperbrowser scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Lightpanda's 61.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lightpanda leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. Lightpanda doesn't.

- Hyperbrowser: B 67.1, rank #295 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.min.md
- Lightpanda: C 61.6, rank #542 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lightpanda.min.md
- Hyperbrowser, good for Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 94 against 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 73. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Lightpanda, good for Agents and crawlers that read and fill many JavaScript pages in parallel on small machines, without needing pixel rendering. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 82 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Hyperbrowser | Lightpanda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 46 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 94 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 66 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hyperbrowser | Lightpanda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | S2 Labs Inc. | Selecy SAS (Lightpanda) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hyperbrowser.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 for the browser. The npm wrapper @lightpanda/browser and the agent skill are Apache-2.0. Lightpanda Cloud is a closed service with no terms of service found |
| Tools exposed | none | 32 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-23 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-03 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk | 9.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |