We benchmarked 6 VPS providers running 10,000 concurrent Playwright sessions with headless Chromium. The results were eye-opening most providers crumble under real scraping workloads. Here's the raw data.
Methodology
Each provider was tested with identical workloads: 10,000 concurrent Playwright sessions, each navigating 5 pages, extracting data, and closing. We measured CPU saturation, memory usage, network throughput, and cost per 1M pages scraped.
Benchmark Results
| Provider | vCPUs | RAM | Concurrent Sessions | Pages/min | Cost/1M pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZentisLabs AI VPS | 16 | 64 GB | 10,000 | 48,200 | $1.20 |
| Provider A | 16 | 64 GB | 6,200 | 28,100 | $3.40 |
| Provider B | 16 | 64 GB | 4,800 | 22,400 | $4.10 |
| Provider C (Cloud) | 16 | 64 GB | 8,100 | 35,600 | $2.80 |
| Provider D | 8 | 32 GB | 2,400 | 11,200 | $6.50 |
| Provider E | 16 | 64 GB | 7,500 | 31,000 | $3.10 |
ZentisLabs AI VPS handled the full 10,000 sessions without throttling, thanks to dedicated bare-metal CPUs and optimized network stack.
Why ZentisLabs VPS Wins
- Bare-metal performance No noisy neighbors, dedicated CPU cores
- Pre-installed scraping stack Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium ready to go
- Integrated proxies Direct connection to ZentisLabs residential network (no extra latency)
- Auto-scaling Spin up additional VPS instances via API
ZentisLabs VPS Plans
Starter
$19/mo
- 4 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 100 GB NVMe
- Unmetered bandwidth
Pro
$49/mo
- 8 vCPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 200 GB NVMe
- Unmetered bandwidth
Enterprise
$99/mo
- 16 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
- 500 GB NVMe
- Unmetered bandwidth