I’ve been wondering about this since I saw that you can choose from 400+ AI models for different tasks. For headless browser work specifically, does the model choice actually move the needle on what your automation can do?
Like, if I’m doing something like:
- Extracting product prices from a site (pretty structured data)
- Validating that the data looks correct
- Summarizing extracted content into readable descriptions
…does it matter if I use Claude versus GPT versus something else? Or is most of the heavy lifting just the workflow logic—the selectors, the navigation steps, the data parsing—and the model is just there to do some lightweight formatting or summarization?
I’m also curious whether different models have different strengths here. Like, is one model better at parsing messy HTML, another better at validation, another better at summarization?
Has anyone actually experimented with swapping models and seen meaningful differences in their headless browser automations? Or is it more of a “pick one and move on” situation?
What’s your experience been?