Skyvern
Open source browser agent that uses computer vision and language models instead of brittle selectors to complete multi step workflows on any website, with route memorization for deterministic replays.
Skyvern is an open source browser automation agent, backed by Y Combinator, that uses large language models and computer vision to automate web workflows on any website. Instead of the brittle CSS selectors and XPath scripts that break whenever a site changes its layout, Skyvern takes a screenshot, uses a vision language model to find the target elements, and interacts with them the way a person would. Because it reasons about what it sees rather than a fixed structure, it operates on sites it has never seen and survives redesigns automatically. The project has more than twenty thousand stars on GitHub and tens of thousands of users.
A defining feature is its explore and replay pattern, called route memorization. The first time Skyvern completes a task through reasoning, it compiles the successful path into a deterministic Playwright script and runs future identical tasks with that faster, cheaper, repeatable script, dropping the language model out of the loop. When a site changes and the script breaks, it automatically falls back to reasoning to recover the path. It ships primitives to act, extract structured data with a schema, validate page state, and prompt, plus a no code workflow builder.
Skyvern is genuinely model agnostic. Teams bring their own language model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure, AWS Bedrock, or a local model through Ollama, and configure multi model setups. It is open source under a copyleft license and can be fully self hosted with Docker or a Python install and your own database, or run through Skyvern Cloud with bundled anti bot, proxy, and CAPTCHA handling. Extensibility is broad: a Playwright compatible software development kit, a REST API, a command line interface, a Model Context Protocol server, and connectors for Zapier, Make, and N8N.
For the enterprise, Skyvern is SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant per its trust center, integrates credential vaults including Azure Key Vault, 1Password, and Bitwarden, and offers human in the loop for compliance sensitive steps on its enterprise plan. It publishes its own Web Bench benchmark and reports strong WebVoyager results. The main trade off is that vision reasoning adds latency and per run cost against a stable, well maintained script, and it stops short of a prebuilt agent marketplace.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://skyvern.com
Category
Browser / computer-use agent
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
In practice
An operations team logs into hundreds of vendor and utility portals each month. Skyvern navigates to the right billing period and pulls invoices, and when a portal layout changes its intent metadata lets the agent recover automatically instead of failing.
A team automates repeat software license renewals through a vendor dashboard. Skyvern learns the checkout path on the first run, its fallbacks handle product variety, and replays run deterministically, flagging if a price or SKU changes.
A developer needs an insurance quote pulled from a carrier site with no API. In a few lines through the Playwright compatible software development kit, Skyvern reasons through the dynamic form, handles the security question, and returns a structured quote.
Agentic Index coverage score
11.5 / 14 capabilities · 82%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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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. The integrations page lists 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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/integrations, /pricing and skyvern.com/docsread 2026-10-05 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs workflow and block reference and skyvern.com/pricingread 2026-10-05 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Not documented |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs extract and file operation blocks and Bulk Invoice Downloader cookbookread 2026-10-05 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/pricing and skyvern.com/docs credentials and 2FA guidesread 2026-10-05 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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SOC 2 Type II through annual third party audits and HIPAA, 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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/pricing and skyvern.com/docs API authentication and permissionsread 2026-10-05 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs artifacts, Laminar and workflow run referenceread 2026-10-05 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs browser profiles and credentials referenceread 2026-10-05 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs self hosted overview and skyvern.com/pricingread 2026-10-05 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Partial |
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The changelog documents workflow templates that run from the Studio, without naming the templates or the jobs they do. The docs add three cookbooks: 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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs cookbooks and changelogread 2026-10-05 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs schedules reference, skyvern.com/integrations and /pricingread 2026-10-05 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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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. The self hosted overview also lists Groq and OpenRouter keys, and on a self hosted install the customer pays its model provider directly. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs LLM configuration and self hosted overviewread 2026-10-05 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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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 reference documents versioning and deprecation, and an AI agents quickstart walks through the MCP server. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs SDK reference, API reference and MCP serverread 2026-10-05 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/docs validate, validation blocks and troubleshooting guideread 2026-10-05 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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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. SourceSkyvern, skyvern.com/pricing and skyvern.com/docs browser automation overview and SDK referenceread 2026-10-05 |
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Recent platform changes
Skyvern 3.0, the rewritten browser agent that launched in beta in September, is now the recommended engine, and versions 1.0 and 2.0 are marked legacy. Skyvern published a production test across about 100,000 runs showing average run time cut by more than half and cost per run down 22.5% against 2.0.
Bears on: Browser/computer use
View sourceSkyvern v1.0.54 adds support for Workflow Copilot to author workflows from demonstration videos. The same release adds a Web Search block using Google and Exa, and lets Copilot find and read an organization's saved workflows.
Bears on: Browser/computer use
View sourceSkyvern released its August 2026 updates, featuring the beta launch of the Skyvern 3.0 Engine and major enhancements to Workflow Copilot. The new engine introduces a persistent tool loop, marked-up screenshot fallbacks, and native handling for hCaptcha, TOTP, and emailed one-time codes. Workflow Copilot now allows users to repair and rerun single blocks, test workflows end-to-end, and manage logins via a searchable credential picker.
Bears on: Browser/computer use
View sourcePricing
Free (5,000 credits/mo); Hobby $29/mo, Pro $149/mo; Enterprise custom
Lowest paid plan
Hobby, $29 a month
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