Lightpanda: The 64MB Browser That is 60x FASTER than Chrome

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Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig, no WebKit, no Chromium, that's up to 60x faster and 16x more memory-efficient than headless Chrome. It exposes the Chrome DevTools Protocol, so it works with Puppeteer and Playwright out of the box, making it a drop-in replacement for agent-driven web scraping and browsing. In this video, we build an AI agent using the Claude SDK with custom web-fetch tools, then benchmark Lightpanda side-by-side against headless Chrome. We also cover where Lightpanda falls short (no SPA rendering, no service workers, no IndexedDB) and why it's already being used by OpenClaw and Vercel's agent browser. 🔗 Relevant Links Lightpanda - https://lightpanda.io/ Lightpanda pre-seed - https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/lightpanda-raises-preseed ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack