Satyam Tripathi
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Obscura Headless Browser Review: Speed, Concurrency, & Total Cost
We tested Obscura 0.2.6 vs Chrome and Lightpanda: speed, memory, 25 parallel sessions, cookies after restart, anti-bot results and real self-hosting cost.
Anchor Browser Review 2026: Profiles, Anti-Bot Tests, Speed and Real Pricing
Anchor Browser review 2026: we tested profiles, fingerprints, IPs, anti-bot results and speed. 25 agents cost $7,304 a month on Anchor vs $1,232 on Gologin.
Lightpanda headless browser review: speed, concurrency, and real pricing
Lightpanda browser review: we tested the headless browser for AI agents on speed, concurrency, fingerprints, and real pricing against Chrome and Gologin.
Python Web Crawler: How to Build One That Scales With Asyncio
A web crawler fetches pages, extracts data and links, and then fetches those links. Learning how to make a web crawler can take an afternoon. Keeping it fast when pages need a real browser takes longer. A Playwright web crawler works on a laptop with a few tabs. Add tabs, and memory grows with each […]
Kernel.sh Review 2026: Speed, Concurrency and Real Pricing
Kernel.sh review with real tests: device IDs, profiles, proxies, startup speed and monthly cost, compared with Gologin Cloud Browser for signed-in accounts.
Browser as a Service (BaaS): Architecture, Use Cases & 2026 Guide
Browser as a service (BaaS) is a cloud service where real browsers run on a provider’s servers and your code controls them over a WebSocket. That connection usually uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Vendors also call the product a cloud browser or a headless browser API. A Playwright script needs a few changed lines […]
Website Automation for Logged-In Accounts: 2026 Guide
Website automation is software that does a person’s work on a website, often where no API exists for the job. It logs in, clicks, fills forms, and reads results through the site’s interface. A script that signs in on your laptop can fail on a server. The site sees a new device and may ask […]
Cloudflare Browser Rendering: Benchmark, Limits & Cloud Alternatives
Cloudflare Browser Rendering, renamed Browser Run, gives you headless Chrome on Cloudflare’s network. You control it with a Worker, its REST API, or a Puppeteer or Playwright script, without running a browser yourself. In my tests, cold starts were fast. The problem appeared on the second run, when a new browser started without the first […]
Browser Automation Tools 2026: Playwright vs Puppeteer
Browser automation tools control a real browser from code. The cost appears when you run them at concurrency against sites you don’t own. Comparisons list features in a table, such as protocol support and language bindings. None of that says what a tool costs at runtime. Where a memory number does appear, it measures Chromium, […]
Playwright Automation Tool in the Cloud: Setup & Benchmarks
TL;DR Running 4 concurrent browsers raised the local process tree to 1,229 MB in 18 processes. Adding 4 CDP connections cost the client 0.3 MB in 2 processes. Every remote CDP call is a network round trip. On a 237 ms connection, 20 cards took 16,010 ms with per-field locators and 254 ms in one […]
