Automat AI vs Skyvern (2026)

API based automations call outside systems and route data between them inside a workflow, signing in with write only managed credentials. The Workforce agent, Ace, holds its own accounts and logins in the customer's tools.

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Workflows include native Google integration blocks (Drive, Sheets) that write to connected accounts, and Skyvern connects to Zapier, Make, n8n, Workato and MCP clients. There are 12 connections in all, adding Activepieces, Pabbly Connect, Integrately, viaSocket, Clay, Phonely and Eachlabs, with Freshsales in progress. Email and webhook blocks send results onward, and stored credentials can come from 1Password on Pro or from Azure Key Vault and Bitwarden on Enterprise.

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Automat Core runs versioned workflow definitions from a visual and code workflow builder, combining UI agents, document extraction and API calls in one process, with durable runs, a per node timeline, validation and cloning into development versions.

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Versioned workflows chain blocks (browser tasks, extraction, integrations, human interaction), built in the Studio or with Copilot and run through the API. Code caching turns a successful run into a deterministic script that falls back to the agent. The block set covers navigation, action, extract, loop, text prompt, login, file operation, email, webhook and validation blocks, workflows can be versioned and filed in folders through the API, and Enterprise adds custom code blocks.

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Workflows wake on their own through a schedules API that takes a recurrence rule and reports the next fire time, and they also start by webhook or API call. The Workforce agent is reached by email, Slack, Teams, text, iMessage, WhatsApp, document comments and phone calls.

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Agents and workflows run on recurring or one time schedules through the schedules API. They also start from the API, the SDK, the CLI, the MCP server, the dashboard and Zapier, Make, n8n and Workato triggers, with webhooks on completion. Activepieces, Pabbly Connect, Integrately and viaSocket are listed as further no code starting points, and webhooks are available on every plan including the free one.

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Agents work from documents supplied for each run and from a project library of curated files and data resources, and the Workforce agent reads a customer handbook. Automat keeps no retrieval index, embeddings layer or graph over customer knowledge, and document extraction parses each document on its own. Models trained on customer history learn from it in training and do not retrieve from it at run time.

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Structured extraction reads live pages at run time and files can be passed in, but Skyvern offers no store of the customer's documents for agents to search. Extract blocks return data against a schema the user supplies, and file operation blocks bring documents into a workflow, such as invoice PDFs whose data is extracted after download.

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The Workforce agent keeps a handbook the customer adds notes to and works on a dedicated Mac whose state persists, and Automat sells tasks, memory and recall as an add on. Automat does not say how that memory is scoped or how long it lasts, and durable Core runs keep state only within a single run.

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A run carries its own progress, code caching reuses a learned route as a script, and browser profiles keep logins. Skyvern describes no other memory. Browser profiles are created, listed and deleted through the API, and credentials are stored once and reused by later runs.

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Workflows carry human in the loop steps that raise approval tasks with actions, fields and an expiry, completed in the product or through the API before the run continues; Workforce customers set which actions need approval before they happen and can pause or redirect the agent.

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Workflows take a human interaction step that pauses the run for a person before it continues, and Copilot can add that step and report it as a pause. Live browser sessions can also be taken over. Human in the loop is listed as an Enterprise plan feature, and login steps can wait for a one time code that a person or an inbox supplies.

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Access runs on role based controls with team level isolation, SSO and SCIM through the customer's identity provider, per tool scoped access and an organization scoped isolated environment. Automat lists SOC 2 Type II, with the report under NDA, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR, and runs a trust center at trust.runautomat.com.

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Skyvern holds SOC 2 Type II through annual third party audits and is HIPAA compliant, with team workspaces on Pro and SSO on Enterprise, API authentication and permissions, and an encrypted credential vault. Stored credentials start on the $29 Hobby plan, the $149 Pro plan adds team workspaces and 2FA and TOTP support, and Enterprise lists a SOC 2 report, HIPAA compliance and the Azure Key Vault and Bitwarden integrations.

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Every run keeps session replay, retained logs, a per node timeline with inputs and outputs, a recording and screenshots of each action, readable in the product and through the sessions API, with an audit ready history of what the agent did.

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Each run exposes a timeline and artifacts (screenshots, recordings, logs) through the API, runs can be watched live, and traces export to Laminar. The API also returns each workflow's run history, and a run's completion webhook can be retried.

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A cloud, private or desktop runtime is offered, and agents can execute inside the customer's own infrastructure so sensitive data stays on premises, with eligible worker groups selectable per workflow; no region list is published.

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Skyvern is open source under AGPL-3.0 and self hosts with Docker or Kubernetes with the customer's own storage, beside the managed cloud. Self hosting is also an Enterprise option.

Docker Compose suits getting started and small teams and Kubernetes production scale, and a self hosted install runs the API server with an embedded Playwright Chromium browser, the web UI, PostgreSQL and the customer's own LLM provider. Self hosted teams bring their own proxy provider, since managed residential proxies come with Skyvern Cloud. In the cloud, plans set how many runs execute at once, from 1 on the free plan to 10 on Hobby, 25 on Pro and 100 on Enterprise.

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Use cases on the industry pages include disclosures, claims, KYC and refunds, but forward deployed engineers build each automation for the customer, and there is no catalog of prebuilt agents or templates for customers to adopt. The packages API lists code libraries for workflow steps, which the customer assembles.

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Workflow templates run from the Studio, though the templates and the jobs they do are not named. Three cookbooks cover a Bulk Invoice Downloader that pulls invoices from vendor portals, extracts the PDF data and emails a summary, a job application pipeline that gathers postings, submits applications with a resume and tracks their status, and healthcare portal data extraction from EHR systems.

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Automat assigns two providers by function, Anthropic for computer use and Google Gemini for video. For extraction the customer picks the Mini, Pro or Max tier, each backed by a named Gemini model, so the customer chooses a tier but not a provider.

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Self hosted Skyvern is configured with the customer's choice of LLM provider, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock and local models through Ollama, and the cloud sets custom LLM defaults. Groq and OpenRouter keys are also supported, and on a self hosted install the customer pays its model provider directly.

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A REST Programmatic Access API with an OpenAPI 3.1 specification and bearer personal access tokens creates, runs, schedules and inspects workflows, sessions, extractors, credentials and files, and an MCP server is listed for Enterprise.

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Developers get a documented REST API with an OpenAPI file, a Playwright compatible SDK with a complete reference, a CLI with skills and an MCP server. The SDK covers page methods such as act, extract, validate and prompt, agent methods such as run_task, login, download_files and run_workflow, and browser methods that launch a cloud browser or connect to one over CDP. The API has documented versioning and deprecation rules, and an AI agents quickstart walks through the MCP server.

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A validate endpoint checks the active workflow definition before deployment without dispatching a run, and run outcome counts per version, session replay and logs support debugging. Testing against real data before production is done by Automat as part of its managed service, not by the customer in the product.

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A validate primitive checks page state inside a run, Copilot runs test runs while building a workflow, and artifacts support debugging. Skyvern publishes no scored test set for checking agents, and Web Bench is its own benchmark. Validation blocks can sit between workflow steps to confirm a page is in the expected state before the run continues, and a troubleshooting guide and FAQ cover failed runs.

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Vision based agents see screens and drive mouse and keyboard across web and desktop applications including SAP GUI, Citrix and legacy portals, with unattended browser and desktop automation, stealth browsers and hosted browser sessions, and each Workforce agent operates its own dedicated Mac.

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Skyvern agents navigate websites visually with LLMs and computer vision in cloud or local browsers, handling logins, 2FA, CAPTCHAs and multi page forms without selectors. Cloud browsers come with a basic CAPTCHA solver on Hobby and an advanced one from Pro, residential proxies on Pro and Enterprise, and country or city level geo targeting, and the SDK can also connect to an existing browser over CDP.

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