Skyvern
Automates browser workflows with vision LLMs and a no-code builder instead of brittle DOM selectors.
About
Instead of relying on XPath or CSS selectors that break when a page changes, Skyvern drives browsers with a swarm of agents that read pages through vision LLMs, so the same automation generalizes to websites it has never seen and survives layout changes. The Playwright-compatible SDK adds AI primitives such as page.act(), page.extract(), page.validate(), and page.prompt(), and a no-code workflow builder chains tasks with loops, conditionals, HTTP requests, and structured data extraction. It handles logins with 2FA support and password manager integrations for Bitwarden, 1Password, and LastPass, and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenRouter as model backends. Self-hosting takes pip install skyvern plus a quickstart command, or Docker Compose bundling Postgres, the API, and a UI, while a managed cloud runs at app.skyvern.com. The core is AGPL-3.0 licensed with about 22,600 GitHub stars, and the YC-backed team reports 64.4 percent accuracy on the WebBench benchmark, strongest on form-filling write tasks.
Should you use Skyvern?
Pick it when
Pick Skyvern when you must automate forms and workflows across many websites you do not control, including logins with 2FA, and want vision-based agents that survive layout changes plus a no-code builder.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it if AGPL-3.0 is a problem for a hosted product you modify, or if you automate a few known sites where cheaper deterministic steps work: Stagehand's MIT SDK mixes code and AI and caches actions.
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Details
- Category
- AI Agents & Orchestration
- Price
- Freemium
- Platform
- Hybrid
- Difficulty
- Intermediate (3/5)
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026