Plate 44
Playwright vs Cypress: 1.47s vs 4.24s Smoke
Playwright 1.55.1 Chromium vs Cypress 14.5.4 Electron on one local smoke (visit /, assert h1, click, assert). Warm medians (7 rounds after 1 warm-up): Playwright 1,466 ms vs Cypress 4,243 ms (~2.9x). Disk: PW node_modules ~12 MB + cache ~918 MB; Cypress node_modules ~23 MB + cache ~601 MB. Fixture /workspace/bench-pw-cy/.
Hands-on5 Oct 2026 · 4 min