# Lightpanda vs Pomerado (slim)

> Pomerado and Lightpanda score within a point of each other for browser automation, 62.5 and 61.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Pomerado and Lightpanda score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.5 (B) and 61.6 (C). Lightpanda leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation.

- Lightpanda: C 61.6, rank #542 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lightpanda.min.md
- Pomerado: B 62.5, rank #502 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.min.md
- Lightpanda, good for Agents and crawlers that read and fill many JavaScript pages in parallel on small machines, without needing pixel rendering. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 40; Transparency & trust, 65 against 53. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine.
- Pomerado, good for An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 83 against 75; Security & auth, 69 against 46; Maintenance & community, 81 against 73. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Lightpanda | Pomerado |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 42 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 53 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lightpanda | Pomerado |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Selecy SAS (Lightpanda) | Pomerado AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Licence | 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 | Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only |
| Tools exposed | 32 | 14 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-10-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-03 | 2026-10-16 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9.3k npm/wk | 37k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |