Why Playwright MCP Cost Us 5 More Tokens Than We Expected

<p>A recent r/ClaudeAI post measured a single Playwright MCP workflow at <strong>114,000 tokens</strong>. Not a complex task — a 7-step navigation + form submission that ran in

<p>Everyone's building "AI agents" in 2026. But after watching 50+ launches and talking to dozens of founders, I'm convinced we're actually seeing two completely different markets

<p>If you searched "Claude Code + Playwright," the first thing you probably found was the Playwright MCP server — it's the original, most widely documented integration. But

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

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<p>I added a WebMCP benchmark to <a href="https://github.com/jo32/DeepDeck" rel="noopener noreferrer">DeepDeck</a>, my MIT-licensed macOS desktop project built on DeepSeek

<p>The price page hasn't moved. Five dollars per million input. Twenty-five per million output. Identical to Opus 4.6.</p> <p>Run the same Claude Code call on both, though, and

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