# Lightpanda vs TinyFish (slim)

> TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) to Lightpanda's 61.6 (C) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Lightpanda's 61.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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
- TinyFish: B 67.7, rank #278 of 1239 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.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 60; Transparency & trust, 65 against 59. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- TinyFish, good for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch. Ahead on Security & auth, 57 against 46; Payments & pricing, 55 against 40; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Lightpanda | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lightpanda | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Selecy SAS (Lightpanda) | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. The MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` and the cookbook are MIT. The SDK packages state no licence in npm or PyPI metadata |
| Tools exposed | 32 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-03 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 9.3k npm/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |