The Browser Arena

Once a session is up, how fast does each agent step complete? Every session runs a fixed loop of ten actions on Wikipedia at a 1920x1080 viewport, each action timed on its own. A session only counts as a success when every action succeeded. Methodology.

Benchmark

Browser Throughput · Sequential runs

Percentile

MedianP95P99

#	Provider	Runs	Success (%)	Actions (%)	Actions/s	Task	Navigate	Wait	Screenshot	Read	Click	Back	Drift	$/1k actions
1	Tilion	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	5.79	3.45s	301	182	190	10	262	175	1.01x	$0.0014
2	KERNEL	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	5.29	3.78s	306	241	196	11	289	58	1.00x	$0.0032
3	Browser Use	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	4.59	4.36s	367	303	227	20	380	76	0.95x	$0.0013
4	Anchor Browser	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	3.72	5.38s	521	309	224	19	389	281	0.90x	$0.0142
5	Notte	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	3.47	5.76s	449	466	274	14	282	51	0.91x	$0.0008
6	Browserbase	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	3.33	6.01s	732	321	264	12	505	217	0.92x	$0.0120
7	Hyperbrowser	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	2.25	8.91s	886	583	410	17	454	528	0.98x	$0.0123
8	Steel	1020 actions	100.0%	100.0%	0.74	26.95s	680	1.67s	1.82s	199	1.82s	397	1.05x	$0.0383
9	Lightpanda	1020 actions	0.0%	90.0%	0.55	32.93s	185	188	216	28	N/A	55	—	$0.0303

Per-action columns are in milliseconds at the selected percentile, over successful actions. Row numbers follow the current sort and percentile; the default order is actions per second, highest first.