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Skyvern
Open-source AI browser agent and cloud service that automates form filling, portal logins, and document downloads through an API or workflow builder.
Operations and engineering teams automating insurance quotes, government forms, invoice downloads, and other repetitive portal work across many sites.
Teams that need sub-second scraping at very high volume, or workflows on a single stable site where a plain script would do.
Verdict
Skyvern is an open-source AI browser agent built by a Y Combinator company from the Summer 2023 batch. Operations teams and developers use it to log in to portals with stored credentials and 2FA, fill out forms, download invoices and documents, and chain those steps into workflows that run through an API or a visual builder. It is worth a look because it reads each page with large language models and computer vision, so the same workflow can run across hundreds of different sites without a custom script for each one.
Score Breakdown
How Skyvern scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
Skyvern's cloud plans are sold in monthly credits, and the open-source version can be self-hosted for free.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 / month | 5,000 credits, 1 concurrent run, webhooks |
| Hobby | $29 / month | 30,000 credits, 10 concurrent runs, basic CAPTCHA solver, stored credentials |
| Pro | $149 / month | 150,000 credits, 25 concurrent runs, 2FA and TOTP, 1Password, residential proxy |
| Enterprise | Custom | 100 concurrent runs, HIPAA, SOC 2 report, human-in-the-loop, custom code blocks |
The Field at a Glance
How Skyvern compares with other AI browser agents & web automation vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Skyvern scores 7.4 in AI browser agents & web automation, under Browserbase (7.6). Relative cost lands mid-band for this subcategory.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Insurance and government form filling | Strong | The original use case, across many different sites. |
| Invoice and document downloads | Strong | Logs in with stored credentials and saves files. |
| Regulated portal work | Strong | Enterprise plan adds HIPAA and a SOC 2 report. |
| Self-hosted, open-source deployments | Strong | The core agent is on GitHub. |
| High-volume, low-latency scraping | Weak | Model calls make each step slower than a plain script. |
| One stable site | Mixed | A hand-written script may be cheaper there. |
Who it’s for
Good fit
- Insurance and benefits operations teams
- Accounts payable teams pulling invoices
- Developers replacing brittle Selenium scripts
Poor fit
- High-volume scraping on a few sites
- Teams that need instant responses
- Buyers who want no model costs at all
Review Excerpts
Below are excerpts from public reviews. Our team scoured public reviews, forums, and chat rooms to get a balanced view of customers' experience with this company. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch were excluded.
“We point it at the carrier portals that never gave us an API. It logs in with our stored credentials and pulls the policy documents, so nobody on the ops team has to click through forty sites every morning.”
“I've seen so many back office processes that have hundreds of steps, are incredibly error prone, and traditionally couldn't be automated due to API limitations. Solutions like Skyvern are going to supercharge businesses that have had historically low margins due to the number of humans required.”
“I played with the Geico example, and it seems to do a good job on the happy path there. But I tried another one where it struggled... I want to get me car rental prices from https://www.costcotravel.com/. I gave it airport + time of pickup and dropoff, but it struggled to hit the "rental car" tab.”
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of Skyvern for buyers comparing options in ai browser agents & web automation. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. Skyvern did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria sit under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for ai browser agents & web automation)
- Workflow automation across many sites
- Logins, 2FA & CAPTCHA handling
- Open-source self-hosting
- Speed on long workflows
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the fit pattern described above.
Scope
Skyvern is graded here as ai browser agents & web automation. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.