The Skyvern Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Skyvern in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Skyvern
The Insider’s Guide
Open-source AI agents that automate workflows in the browser
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among automation tools, read from Skyvern’s own pages.
Made by Ikonomos Inc. · checked Oct 6, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Skyvern’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Skyvern’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.2
GPA, above 6 of the 40 other automation tools we grade
Skyvern automates tasks on websites by driving a browser with AI agents: logging in to portals, filling forms, downloading documents and extracting data. It reads pages with computer vision and language models instead of fixed selectors, so workflows do not depend on a site's page structure. It is available as an open-source project to self-host and as Skyvern Cloud, a hosted service billed in credits.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Skyvern, taken from its own pages and our grades.
It's open source, so you can host it yourself, but then you pay an LLM provider and lose the cloud's proxies and CAPTCHA solving.
- 1
Best for fetching documents from portals that have no API
Skyvern sends an AI agent into a browser to log in, fill forms and download documents, reading the page by sight instead of fixed selectors.
- 2
Paid plans start at $29 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $29 / month for 30,000 credits (Hobby).
- 3
There is a free plan
The open-source edition (AGPL-3.0) is free to self-host with pip or Docker. Skyvern Cloud's Free plan gives 5,000 credits, about 170 actions, which the pricing page does not show as renewing monthly.
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
- 5
Vision-based browser agents
Agents combine computer vision with LLM reasoning to read a page, so a workflow keeps working after a site changes its layout. Each run has a summary of the actions taken and why.
- 6
Several ways to build a workflow
Describe the task to a copilot in plain English, upload a written procedure, record yourself doing it in a browser, or assemble blocks in a visual editor.
- 7
Logins, 2FA and CAPTCHAs
A credential vault stores passwords and 2FA codes without exposing them to the LLM, and connects to 1Password and Bitwarden. Runs can pass TOTP prompts and solve CAPTCHAs.
- 8
A 2.2 GPA, above 6 of 40
That is against the other automation tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
To replace Skyvern you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
Skyvern at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $29 / month for 30,000 credits (Hobby)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- Skyvern Cloud Free plan: 5,000 credits with API access, no credit card required
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Ikonomos Inc.
- Category
- Automation
- Our grade
- 2.2 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for fetching documents from portals that have no API
Skyvern sends an AI agent into a browser to log in, fill forms and download documents, reading the page by sight instead of fixed selectors. It's open source, so you can host it yourself, but then you pay an LLM provider and lose the cloud's proxies and CAPTCHA solving. On the cloud, Hobby is $29 a month, and 2FA support and team workspaces start on Pro at $149.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | D | Hobby is $29 a month for about 1,200 actions, past the $25 where this category's dearer quarter starts. Worse, the bits a real portal job needs sit on Pro at $149 against a category middle of $19: 2FA and TOTP, residential proxies, team workspaces. Self-hosting is free, but then you pay an LLM provider. |
| Free plan and trial | B | You can run the AGPL edition on your own machine with pip or Docker and pay Skyvern nothing, a free route one person could live on. The cloud Free plan is thinner than it sounds: 5,000 credits, about 170 actions, and the pricing page doesn't show it coming back each month. |
| Features | C | Browser work: vision instead of selectors, a credential vault that keeps passwords away from the model, TOTP prompts, CAPTCHAs, data back in your own schema, and four ways to build a run. But that's a smaller job than this category's job. Nothing here connects your apps to each other. |
| Ease of use | C | No rating on record, and there's a curve: credentials to vault, proxies to pick, workflows to build, and pip or Docker if you host it. Describing the task to a copilot or recording yourself once is the easy end of it, not the whole of it. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web only, no phone or desktop app on the listing. It has a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, webhooks, an MCP server for clients like Claude and Cursor, and hooks into Zapier, Make and n8n. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Skyvern is for
- Fits if your team collects invoices or reports from vendor portals that have no API
- Works for teams that need to host their browser automation themselves
Who it is not for
- Pricey if your portals need 2FA, because TOTP support starts on Pro at $149 a month
- Tight if you're staying on the cloud Free plan: 5,000 credits, about 170 actions, not shown as renewing monthly
- Not for you if you want custom code blocks, human-in-the-loop steps or HIPAA, which are Enterprise only
- Watch out: self-hosting needs your own LLM provider, and proxies, anti-bot measures and CAPTCHA solving are cloud features
- Tight if one run at a time won't do, as the free cloud plan allows 1 concurrent run and Hobby 10
Good to know
Good for
- Operations teams collecting invoices or reports from vendor portals that have no API
- Developers replacing selector-based Selenium or Playwright scripts
- Teams that need to self-host browser automation
Worth knowing
- The cloud Free plan is 5,000 credits, about 170 actions, and the pricing page does not show it renewing each month.
- 2FA and TOTP support, team workspaces, residential proxies and state or city targeting start on Pro at $149 a month.
- Custom code blocks, human-in-the-loop steps and HIPAA compliance are listed only under Enterprise.
- The self-hosted edition is AGPL-3.0 and needs your own LLM provider; proxies, anti-bot measures and CAPTCHA solving are described as part of Skyvern Cloud.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$29
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Skyvern has a free plan. Paid plans start at $29 / month for 30,000 credits (Hobby).
Self-hosting is free, but then you pay an LLM provider.
Open source (self-hosted)
$0
The AGPL-3.0 project from GitHub, installed with pip or Docker Compose and run on your own machine or server with your own LLM provider.
Free
$0
Skyvern Cloud with 5,000 credits (about 170 actions), 1 concurrent run, datacenter proxies, webhooks and community support.
Hobby
$29
per month
30,000 credits a month (about 1,200 actions), 10 concurrent runs, a basic CAPTCHA solver, stored credentials and email support.
Pro
$149
per month
150,000 credits a month (about 6,200 actions), 25 concurrent runs, team workspaces, 2FA and TOTP support, residential proxies and priority support.
Enterprise
Custom
Custom credits, 100 concurrent runs, HIPAA compliance, a SOC 2 report, custom code blocks, human-in-the-loop steps and a dedicated Slack channel.
The free plan
The open-source edition (AGPL-3.0) is free to self-host with pip or Docker. Skyvern Cloud's Free plan gives 5,000 credits, about 170 actions, which the pricing page does not show as renewing monthly.
Trying it first
Skyvern Cloud Free plan: 5,000 credits with API access, no credit card required
Read from skyvern.com on Oct 6, 2026.
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
Open-source AI agents that automate workflows in the browser. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: open source, self-hostable, public API, AI features, workflow automation, AI agents, no-code.
But that's a smaller job than this category's job.
- Vision-based browser agents
- Agents combine computer vision with LLM reasoning to read a page, so a workflow keeps working after a site changes its layout. Each run has a summary of the actions taken and why.
- Several ways to build a workflow
- Describe the task to a copilot in plain English, upload a written procedure, record yourself doing it in a browser, or assemble blocks in a visual editor.
- Logins, 2FA and CAPTCHAs
- A credential vault stores passwords and 2FA codes without exposing them to the LLM, and connects to 1Password and Bitwarden. Runs can pass TOTP prompts and solve CAPTCHAs.
- Structured data extraction
- Data pulled from a site is returned in a schema you define, as JSON or CSV, and documents can be downloaded from portals that sit behind a login.
- Proxies and geo-targeting
- Cloud runs go through datacenter or residential proxies, with targeting by country on the lower plans and by state or city on Pro and Enterprise.
- API, SDKs and MCP
- Workflows can be triggered through a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs or webhooks, and Skyvern can act as a tool for MCP-compatible clients such as Claude and Cursor.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Zapier
- Make
- n8n
- Clay
- Workato
- Activepieces
- Pabbly Connect
- 1Password
Skyvern is made by Ikonomos Inc.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
6/40
Other automation tools it is graded above
Skyvern's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 6 of the 40 other automation tools we grade, and level with 8.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 29 of 40) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $18.50 for the category: 24 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 41 automation tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Skyvern’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 40
- BFree plan and trialAbove 29 of 40
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 40
- CEase of useAbove 3 of 40
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 10 of 40
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 33 automation tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Skyvern is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
To replace Skyvern you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 26 of the 40 other automation tools grade higher. It costs $348 a year. Skyvern is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.
What you could not
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- A builder that other people can use without writing code.
What this rests on. Skyvern’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Browse AI, Axiom.ai, Ui.Vision, UiPath and Robomotion
The 5 tools Skyvern is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.2GPA
Browse AI
Free plan · from $19/mo
No-code web scraping and website change monitoring.
- Only Browse AI lists a browser extension.
- Skyvern is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Skyvern also covers AI agents.
- 2.0GPA
Axiom.ai
Free trial · from $15/mo
Browser automation and web scraping bots, built without code.
- Skyvern has a free plan. Axiom.ai does not, though it has a free trial.
- Only Skyvern lists a web app.
- Only Axiom.ai lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
- 3.0GPA
Ui.Vision
Free plan · from €11.90/mo
Open-source browser and desktop automation with computer vision.
- Only Skyvern lists a web app.
- Only Ui.Vision lists Windows, macOS and Linux apps.
- Only Ui.Vision lists a browser extension.
- 2.6GPA
UiPath
Free plan · from $25/mo
Enterprise platform for RPA, AI agents and process orchestration.
- Only UiPath lists Windows, macOS and Linux apps.
- Skyvern is open source, according to its own site.
- Skyvern also covers no-code.
- 2.0GPA
Robomotion
Free plan · from $49/mo
RPA platform for building workflows, AI agents and apps.
- Only Robomotion lists Windows, macOS and Linux apps.
- Skyvern is open source, according to its own site.
- Skyvern also covers no-code.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
14
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Skyvern free?
Skyvern has a free plan. The open-source edition (AGPL-3.0) is free to self-host with pip or Docker.
How much does Skyvern cost?
Skyvern lists 5 plans. Open source (self-hosted): $0.
What platforms does Skyvern work on?
Skyvern is available on Web.
Does Skyvern have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Skyvern is listed for Web.
Does Skyvern have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Skyvern is listed for Web.
Is Skyvern open source?
Yes. Skyvern is open source, according to its own site.
Does Skyvern have an API?
Yes. Skyvern offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Skyvern integrate with?
Skyvern's listing names Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay, Workato, Activepieces, Pabbly Connect and 1Password.
Does Skyvern have a free trial?
Yes. Skyvern Cloud Free plan: 5,000 credits with API access, no credit card required.
Who makes Skyvern?
Skyvern is made by Ikonomos Inc.
What are the alternatives to Skyvern?
The closest alternatives to Skyvern in our directory are Browse AI, Axiom.ai, Ui.Vision, UiPath and Robomotion.
How does Skyvern compare with other automation tools?
Skyvern's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 6 of the 40 other automation tools we grade, and level with 8.
Is Skyvern good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Skyvern D for value for money. Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $18.50 for the category: 24 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Skyvern?
To replace Skyvern you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Skyvern’s own pages on Oct 6, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Skyvern's own pages on 6 October 2026. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-05-20.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Ikonomos Inc. Prices change, so check skyvern.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Skyvern, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/skyvern
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Skyvern’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Skyvern is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Ikonomos Inc. Prices and plans change: check skyvern.com before you buy.