# Airtop vs Skyvern (slim)

> Skyvern scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Skyvern scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #511 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Skyvern: B 63.1, rank #320 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyvern.min.md
- Airtop, good for Agents that need a hosted browser with natural-language page calls, saved logins handed over by a person, and proxies and CAPTCHA solving in one service. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 57. Also No incidents deducted, where Skyvern loses 3 points for them.
- Skyvern, good for Agents that must finish a multi-step job on sites with logins, 2FA and forms, where stored credentials, saved workflows and cached scripts matter more than raw browser time. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 65; Security & auth, 59 against 46; Payments & pricing, 32 against 25; Maintenance & community, 85 against 24; Transparency & trust, 72 against 61. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Airtop | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 32 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Ikonomos Inc. (Skyvern) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.skyvern.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | AGPL-3.0 for the open-source server, SDKs and MCP server. Skyvern Cloud is a proprietary service under Skyvern's terms, and its anti-bot measures aren't in the repository |
| Tools exposed | none | 114 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Skyvern-AI/skyvern` |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | 2026-02-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 23k stars, 3.2k npm/wk, 1.6k PyPI/wk |