Ego-lite Agent Runs Browser Flows in One Pass, 2.6x Faster

Scraping a site with an AI agent usually means watching it stop to think after every click. Citro Labs says its ego-lite agent skips those pauses and runs the whole flow in one JavaScript pass.

On a real seven-day scrape of OpenAI's top X posts, that came out to 87 seconds against Vercel's agent-browser at 226 seconds, at half the model cost.

What Happened

Citro Labs benchmarked ego-lite against Vercel's agent-browser on a single task: scraping OpenAI's top X posts from the previous seven days. Ego-lite finished in 87 seconds, Vercel's took 226, which Citro says is 2.6x faster and half the model cost.

The difference is in the architecture. Most agents pause for another model round trip after each action. Ego-lite can execute a multi-step browser workflow in one JavaScript pass, so it doesn't hand control back to the model between steps.

Why It Matters

That opens up real parallelism. One agent can test a checkout flow while another researches competitors, and neither one steals the page under your cursor. Your browsing keeps working while the agents do their jobs in the background.