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Lightpanda vs Tokmetry

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Lightpanda compared with Tokmetry
DetailLightpanda logo LightpandaTokmetry logo Tokmetry
What it doesThe AI-native web browser built from scratch for machines Know exactly where every AI dollar goes
StageNot given Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inNot given PY
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingExplorer: Free with 10 browser hours per month and 5 concurrent sessions. Builder: $19/month with 300 browser hours per month and 30 concurrent sessions, then $0.08/hour. Enterprise: Custom volume pricing with dedicated support and SLA guarantees. Free: $0/month (1 developer, 1 project, 7-day event history). Starter: $10/month (3 developers, 2 projects, 30-day event history). Team: $50/month (10 developers, 5 projects, 90-day event history). Business: $100/month (100 developers, 100 projects, 180-day event history).
Key features
  • True headless without CSS, images, layout or GPU compositing
  • Full JavaScript execution via V8
  • CDP-compatible with Playwright and Puppeteer
  • Multi-client concurrent CDP connections in a single process
  • Request interception to block, modify or mock HTTP requests
  • Robots.txt compliance via obey_robots flag
  • 9x faster execution than Chrome headless
  • 16x less memory usage than Chrome headless
  • Built in Zig for performance and efficiency
  • Purpose-built for headless operation without rendering overhead
  • Track spending by project, developer, model and provider
  • Privacy-preserving SDK that never collects prompts or responses
  • Fail-open design ensures AI calls work even if Tokmetry API is down
  • Support for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini
  • Cost calculator to estimate spending on different models
  • No latency added to AI calls
  • Historical cost tracking with versioned pricing
What makes it different
  • Not a fork or patch of existing browsers but built completely from scratch
  • Designed specifically for cloud environments rather than adapted from desktop browsers
  • 10x faster execution and 10x less RAM than Chrome headless
  • Isolated environments without persistent state for secure automation
  • Open source under AGPL-3.0 license with production-ready 1.0 release
  • Designed for privacy with only metadata collection, never storing prompts or API keys
  • Fail-open architecture ensures your AI application keeps running even if the service goes down
  • One-line integration with no proxy or gateway required
  • Unified view across multiple AI providers with normalized costs
  • Waste detection and cost comparison between models
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)47 +1 (up) since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)280
Citation Flow (Majestic)3622
Referring domains (Majestic)7842

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