Lightpanda Maps Browser Automation Choices

Lightpanda’s expanding interface surface is powerful, but this guide is necessary because the product now spans several distinct workflows.

• –Local deployment offers the fullest feature set and keeps browser traffic in your infrastructure
• –Cloud removes browser operations overhead and adds managed proxies, usage controls, and an HTTP API
• –CDP fits existing Puppeteer and Playwright automation, while MCP lets external AI agents drive Lightpanda directly
• –The native agent is best for natural-language browser tasks; PandaScript turns successful runs into reproducible, token-free automation
• –The strongest workflow may be hybrid: prototype with an agent, then productionize the resulting script