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Kaabist vsPlaywright, by hand.
Playwright is the engine under a great deal of browser automation, Kaabist's included. Writing it by hand gives you total control and every operational problem: logins that expire, selectors that break, a 2FA code someone has to type at the keyboard, a retry that submits twice.
“Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.”
Pricing · Free and open source. You run the browsers, the scheduling and the recovery yourself. source
Side by side
| Capability | Kaabist | Playwright, by hand | Their documentation says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logged-in, multi-step flows | Yes | Yes | Anything a browser can do, in code you write and maintain. source |
| Persistent sessions | Yes | Yes | Storage state saves a login for reuse. source |
| Self-healing locators, delivered as proposals you review | Yes | No | Locators are what you wrote; when the page changes, the script fails until you fix it. source |
| Resume a program from its checkpoint after a person answers | Yes | No | No built-in way to pause a run for your input and resume it hours later. source |
| Side-effect fences: a submit never runs twice | Yes | No | A retry runs the whole script again, submit included. source |
| A coding agent builds the program over MCP | Yes | Partly | Playwright MCP lets an agent drive a browser; it does not leave a program behind. source |
| Schedules and change detection | Yes | No | Scheduling, change detection and alerts are yours to build. source |
By Kaabist. Last verified 10 October 2026 against Playwright, by hand's public documentation. “No” means we did not find it there. Something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it. How we compare.
When to choose Playwright, by hand
The flow is simple, rarely changes, never needs your input in the middle, and you would rather own every line than run it as a service.
When to choose Kaabist
When the flow logs in, waits for a person, or submits something that must not happen twice, and you want it kept running as a versioned program rather than a script.
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