Test AI browser agents on real workday tasks
The author ran Comet and another agent through real workday tasks like booking a flight and handling calendar chaos; one took 16 minutes to book while the other did the calendar work in about 5.
What they did
The author ran eight everyday workday tests on Comet and on OpenAI's Operator, giving both the same tasks. They included rescheduling a meeting and drafting the follow-up email from a sidebar, finding a restaurant, sifting LinkedIn contacts affected by layoffs, and pulling insights from Amazon filings. The detailed per-test results are paywalled.
How it went
The free portion says Comet delivered, handling calendar chaos in minutes, while Operator was slow and clumsy. The 16-minute flight booking and the full side-by-side are in the paid section, which I couldn't read.
Worth knowing
The post says the tool costs $200/month, so the author recommends testing it on your own real work and checking the time saved before paying.
Labels
The author ran eight everyday workday tests on Comet and on OpenAI's Operator, giving both the same tasks.
They included rescheduling a meeting and drafting the follow-up email from a sidebar, finding a restaurant, sifting LinkedIn contacts affected by layoffs, and pulling insights from Amazon filings.
The author ran Comet and another agent through real workday tasks like booking a flight and handling calendar chaos; one took 16 minutes to book while the other did the calendar work in about 5.
The post says the tool costs $200/month, so the author recommends testing it on your own real work and checking the time saved before paying.
The author ran eight everyday workday tests on Comet and on OpenAI's Operator, giving both the same tasks.
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- Agents
- Perplexity Comet
- Source
- blog
- Source date
- undated
- Accounts
- 1
- In registry since
- Oct 14, 2026