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Re:Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @02:03PM (#48026187)

That’s actually what the Reflex plugin behind the APIs in the benchmark does. It creates APIs from your app’s event handlers, thereby providing a stateful way for agents to navigate apps.

It’s why we did this benchmark :) - reflex team member

Vision agents vs. structured APIs on the same internal tool task

Posted by FirestarAlpha on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:41PM
from the self-post dept.

Vision agents (browser-use, computer-use) are the default for letting AI agents operate web apps without APIs. Writing an MCP or REST API per app is the alternative, but every app needs its own. Enterprise teams have 20+ internal tools.We ran the agents on a Reflex port of a react demo (a small business’ admin panel). The task was to find the "Smith" with the most orders, accept their pending...

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