Benchmark: search items on Vinted with an AI agent
Wield's recipe passed 9 of 9 runs on Vinted, with a median of 0.9 s and no model cost. A Claude browser agent passed 7 of 8 runs, with a median of 136.5 s and $0.20 per run. The benchmark did not flag any agent run as blocked. These results are preliminary, as of 7 November 2026.
Vinted Search second-hand fashion and items on Vinted
Read-only, no loginPasses the daily check
Parameters (4)
| Metric | Wield recipe | Browser Use + Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Success | 100% | 88% |
| Median time | 920 ms | 136 s |
| Cost per run | $0 | $0.196 |
9 runs each, 7 November 2026. How we measure
The task
Each side ran the same three searches. A run passes when it returns at least five items with a title and a price.
| Query | Parameters |
|---|---|
| q1 | query = winterjacke, price_to = 40, order = price_low_to_high |
| q2 | query = nike air max 42 |
| q3 | query = levis 501, price_to = 30 |
Results
| Wield recipe | Browser agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs passing the check | 9 of 9 | 7 of 8 |
| Median time per run | 920 ms | 136.5 s (136,463 ms) |
| Model cost per run | $0 | $0.20 |
| Requests per run (median) | 1 | 451 (to the site: 7) |
| Blocked by the site | 0 runs | 0 of 8 runs |
The browser agent took a median of 7 steps per run, with 37,785 input tokens and 2,187 output tokens. Its median run made 451 requests, and 7 of them reached vinted.de.
Why the results differ
Vinted did not block the browser agent in our runs. The gap is in speed and cost. A recipe makes one search request. The agent works through the page step by step, and each step costs model tokens.
Wield's slowest raw run hit the 60 s run limit, which the log records as a timeout. The summary counts above include all 9 runs as passing, so read the timeout as one raw run that did not finish in time.
Caveats
- Small sample. There are at most 9 runs per side, and the benchmark is still running. It is paced at about 30 site requests per hour.
- No blocking here. This task shows speed and cost. It says nothing about access, because no agent run was blocked.
- Human pace only. Wield runs in the user's own browser at human pace. If a check appears, Wield stops with
site_challengeand the user solves it.
Terms of Vinted
Vinted's terms prohibit scraping and automated collection of listings. The recipe makes one search page at a time that the user starts, from the user's own browser. Buying and messaging stay on vinted.de.
FAQ
Does Vinted block browser agents?
Not in our runs. None of the 8 browser agent runs was marked blocked. The agent still cost more and took longer than the recipe.
How fast is the Wield recipe for search items on Vinted?
In our benchmark as of 7 November 2026, the median run took 0.9 s. The fastest run took 0.8 s.
Can I rerun this benchmark?
The method and per-task rows are on the benchmark page. The raw logs hold destinations, timing, tokens and check results, not page contents.