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- Free allowance
- Explorer: USD 0 for ever, 10 browser hours a month, 5 concurrent sessions, bring your own proxy
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 53.4/month
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate5 concurrent sessions on the free plan; 30 on Builder
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Explorer: USD 0 for ever, 10 browser hours a month, 5 concurrent sessions, bring your own proxy unit hours; metered on wall-clock; a purpose-built headless engine rather than a Chromium instance |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 5 concurrent sessions on the free plan; 30 on Builder source
- per-object-cap 10 browser hours a month on the free plan; 300 on Builder source
Builder is USD 19 a month for 300 hours, then USD 0.08 an hour |
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| Binding | request-rate 10 browser hours a month is the allowance, and the engine's compatibility is the second wall |
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| Identity | email a free signup; no card stated on the pricing page |
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| Egress | bring your own proxy; no proxy is included on the free plan |
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| Retention | no session storage is described; the product is a stateless fetch-and-render engine |
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| Interface | rest, cli a CDP-compatible endpoint for a headless engine |
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| Tooling | Playwright and Puppeteer over CDP; the Lightpanda binary can also be self-hosted |
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| Composes with | 10 hours a month of a browser engine that renders without a full Chromium, so the time buys more pages |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The only free browser allowance here that recurs monthly with no card, and the engine is lighter than Chromium. The catch is compatibility: it is not a full browser and a site that needs one will not render. |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 19 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 53.4 / month
- has-free-tier 1
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | lightpanda.io/pricing | Explorer is USD 0 for ever with 10 browser hours a month and 5 concurrent sessions |
| 2026-10-22 | lightpanda.io/pricing | Builder is USD 19 a month with 300 hours included, then USD 0.08 an hour |
More fields 14
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
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| billing model | wall-clock |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 1,"rounding_s": 1} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "not stated"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "per browser hour","source": "https://lightpanda.io/pricing"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": null,"durability": "none","survives_stop": false,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "none"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "CDP","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| m10h usd | 19.0 |
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| m24h usd | 53.4 |
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| price arithmetic | 10 hours a month free; 300 h costs USD 19, which is 0.063 an hour |
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| price note | Builder at USD 19 a month includes 300 browser hours, then USD 0.08 an hour. 730 hours is 19 + 430(0.08) = 53.40. |
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| price basis | 300 and 730 BROWSER HOURS, not a 2 vCPU shape. A browser host sells minutes of a remote browser, so these rows are not comparable with a sandbox row. |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed