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Lightpanda vs home-assistant-config
Lightpanda has 35,409 GitHub stars, 1,680 forks, 98 open issues and last shipped yesterday. home-assistant-config has 2,026 stars, 178 forks, 5 open issues and last shipped 4 days ago. Lightpanda leads on adoption by 1,648% (35,409 vs 2,026 stars). Lightpanda is written in Zig under AGPL-3.0; home-assistant-config is written in various languages under MIT. Lightpanda has attracted 5% as many forks as stars, home-assistant-config 9%. Lightpanda was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Lightpanda | home-assistant-config | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 35K | ★ 2.0K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Zig | — |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-14 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.7K | ⑂ 178 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Lightpanda if
- You weight community size — 35K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Zig
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick home-assistant-config if
- You want the home-assistant-config feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- You evaluated both and home-assistant-config fits your workflow better
About Lightpanda
Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig, designed specifically for AI agents and automation tasks. It is not a fork of Chromium or WebKit but a new implementation targeting performance and efficiency in automated web interactions. It lives in the browser automation ecosystem, competing with tools like Puppeteer and Playwright that typically rely on Chromium based headless modes.
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About home-assistant-config
home assistant config is a public repository containing the personal Home Assistant configuration of Franck Nijhof, the lead of the Home Assistant project. It lives in the Home Assistant ecosystem, an open source smart home platform that runs locally on hardware such as a Raspberry Pi and connects to over 2,000 devices and services without relying on cloud services.
read the full home-assistant-config overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Lightpanda or home-assistant-config more popular?
Lightpanda has 35,409 GitHub stars and home-assistant-config has 2,026. Lightpanda has the larger community by that measure.
Are Lightpanda and home-assistant-config free?
Both are open source. Lightpanda is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and home-assistant-config under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Lightpanda and home-assistant-config?
Lightpanda is written in Zig and home-assistant-config in various languages. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Lightpanda or home-assistant-config?
Choose Lightpanda if you want the larger community (35,409 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose home-assistant-config if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.