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Lightpanda Cloud pricing
200 browser hours a month cost $19.00 on Lightpanda Cloud's Builder plan, with room to grow to 300 browser hours on the same plan.
Checked Oct 12, 2026 on Lightpanda Cloud's own pricing page
- Builder
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Every Lightpanda Cloud plan
| Plan | Covers | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Included | Past the allowance | Concurrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Builder fits your volume | 20 to 2K browser hours | $19.00 | not offered | 300 browser hours | $0.08 per browser hour | 30 |
Your job
What Lightpanda Cloud bills you for
What you pay
Lightpanda Cloud is also sold as one of the web scraping APIs (100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month: no public price).
About this price and its sources
How Lightpanda Cloud bills browser time, what proxy and compatibility costs sit outside it, and which workloads fit.
Cite this price
200 browser hours a month cost $19.00 on Lightpanda Cloud's Builder plan, with room to grow to 300 browser hours on the same plan. Price read from https://lightpanda.io/pricing on Oct 12, 2026. Scraping API Prices, https://scrapingapiprices.com/lightpanda-pricing
How the bill builds up
- Base rate$0.08per browser hour
- × JavaScript renderingNot requiredNot part of this workload
- × Premium proxyNot required
- ÷ Success rate1Failure billing is not published; this is an assumption
- = Billed units per browser hour1 browser hourFrom this bill’s calculation
- = per browser hour$0.10Builder, billed monthly
Credits and multipliers
JavaScript rendering
Billed failures
Success rate
Concurrency
Free tier
Renews monthly The bill at your volume
200 browser hours · $19.00
Read the chart as a table
| Volume | Bill | Offer |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | $19.00 | Builder |
| 50 | $19.00 | Builder |
| 100 | $19.00 | Builder |
| 200 | $19.00 | Builder |
| 500 | $35.00 | Builder |
| 1,000 | $75.00 | Builder |
| 2,000 | $155.00 | Builder |
Follow each billed unit
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Successes you want
200 browser hours
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- ÷ 1
Attempts you are billed for
200 browser hours
Failure billing is not published. This workload assumes no failures, so the missing rule does not change the bill.
- × 1
What the meter counts
200 browser hours
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Cash per month
$19.00 /mo
Builder: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
200 browser hours → Builder $19.00/mo = $0.10 per browser hour
What makes it cost more
One page is not always one billed unit. These are Lightpanda Cloud's published charges for each kind of work.
| Work | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser session time | $0.08 | browser hour | source |
Limits and terms
What Lightpanda Cloud publishes beyond the price: the limits a job runs into and the terms that change what a plan is worth. Each line links the page it comes from and the day it was read.
Speed, concurrency and sessions
- Explorer allows 5 concurrent sessions and Builder allows 30. source, read Jul 26, 2026
Other terms
- Lightpanda is headless and does not provide graphical rendering; the cloud offer can also provide Chrome for workflows that require it. source, read Jul 26, 2026
Cheaper for this job
Same 200 metered browser-session hours a month, excluding separate proxy and model charges, ranked by what you would actually be billed. APIs without a full public price aren't ranked.
What Lightpanda Cloud does not publish
- Billing granularity and rounding are not published.
- See the note above.
- No bundled proxy or CAPTCHA meter is published.
- Billing granularity and rounding for partial browser hours (Lightpanda pricing, Jul 26, 2026).
- Whether failed navigation or JavaScript execution is excluded from browser-time consumption (Lightpanda pricing, Jul 26, 2026).
- A bundled proxy or CAPTCHA-solving meter for the self-serve cloud plan. Sources reviewed: Lightpanda pricing and Lightpanda API documentation, checked Jul 26, 2026.
- A public compatibility guarantee for every Chromium or Playwright behavior a buyer may rely on. Sources reviewed: Lightpanda and Lightpanda documentation, checked Jul 26, 2026.
What Lightpanda Cloud is
Lightpanda Cloud hosts Lightpanda, a headless browser engine designed for programmatic web automation and data extraction. Lightpanda executes JavaScript and exposes browser-automation compatibility, but the engine does not provide graphical rendering. The cloud offer can also provide Chrome for workflows that require it. Browserless, Browserbase, and Bright Data Browser API are the nearest named alternatives, all centered on managed browser access. Lightpanda’s distinguishing choice is its own non-graphical engine and a simple browser-time meter, with customers bringing their own proxy. Sources: Lightpanda, Lightpanda pricing, Lightpanda API documentation, Browserless pricing, Browserbase pricing, and Bright Data Browser API, checked Jul 26, 2026.
How billing works
One unit is a browser hour. A plan includes browser hours, and additional usage follows the published per-hour rate. The direct multiplier is total running browser time across concurrent sessions. Proxy service is bring-your-own, so its bandwidth or request cost is outside the Lightpanda invoice. The common buying mistake is to compare the included hours directly with Chromium-based hosted browsers without checking compatibility, visual requirements, and external proxy cost. Lightpanda’s engine may replace a graphical browser for DOM and JavaScript work, but it is not an interchangeable screenshot renderer. Sources: Lightpanda pricing, Lightpanda, and Lightpanda API documentation, checked Jul 26, 2026.
Who it suits
Lightpanda Cloud suits developers whose workload needs DOM access and JavaScript execution but not rendered pixels, and who can supply their own proxy when necessary. It is less suitable for screenshot, visual-testing, or browser-fidelity work, and for procurement that wants proxy cost included in one vendor bill. The reason is product architecture, not a missing feature checklist: Lightpanda is a distinct non-graphical engine, so a representative compatibility test is part of cost evaluation. Sources: Lightpanda, Lightpanda pricing, and Lightpanda API documentation, checked Jul 26, 2026.