Agent infrastructure · remote browsers

Which browser drives the web fastest?

6Providers/100Runs per provider/2026-07-17Measured/daily · open CICadence

Agents that browse — scraping, testing, filling forms — rent headless browsers by the session. This ranks providers by the median session round-trip: create a browser, connect over CDP, load a page, release. Re-measured daily in ComputeSDK's open CI.

Browsers· ranked by session round-trip

source: ComputeSDK benchmarks ↗

#ProviderCreateConnectNavigateTotalActions/sSuccess

1Kernel9 ms79 ms96 ms233 ms4.8100/100 2Browserbase215 ms132 ms131 ms623 ms2.3100/100 3Browser Use544 ms101 ms63 ms780 ms3.8100/100 4Notte165 ms498 ms227 ms1.05 s1.2100/100 5Hyperbrowser272 ms556 ms242 ms1.24 s1.2100/100 6Steel450 ms723 ms114 ms1.62 s1.3100/100

How it's measured

Each iteration creates a fresh session, connects over CDP, loads a page, and releases — the cold path an agent pays on every browsing task. Actions/s comes from a separate 10-action workload (navigate, click, type, extract) per session. Medians over 100 runs.

Independent & re-run daily

Run by ComputeSDK in public GitHub CI; raw per-iteration results live in the open repo this page reads from. See also the Sandbox and Storage boards for the rest of the agent-infrastructure stack.