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Playwright MCP snapshots cost me 22,556 tokens per page. Here's what I measured

If you let Claude Code, Codex or Cursor drive a browser, a big part of your token bill is page snapshots your agent reads over and over. I measured it, then built Deputy to cut it: https://razin.ai/deputy?ref=devto Disclosure: Deputy is my product, so read this as a builder's notes. The method and…

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  1. 2026-11-04 01:23 · DEV Community — AI
    Playwright MCP snapshots cost me 22,556 tokens per page. Here's what I measured

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