# Anchor Browser vs Skyvern (slim)

> Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Skyvern's 63.1 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Skyvern leads on schema & documentation, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts…

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Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Skyvern's 63.1 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Skyvern leads on schema & documentation, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation.

- Anchor Browser: B 67.3, rank #211 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.min.md
- Skyvern: B 63.1, rank #320 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyvern.min.md
- Anchor Browser, good for Agents that must work inside signed-in accounts, with managed identities, MFA handling and a human sign-in link, and agents that need to start with no human signup. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 57; Payments & pricing, 60 against 32. 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 80; Security & auth, 59 against 54; Maintenance & community, 85 against 57; Transparency & trust, 72 against 51. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Anchor Browser | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 32 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Anchor Browser | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Anchor Forge Inc. | Ikonomos Inc. (Skyvern) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` | `https://api.skyvern.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service. No service agreement was found, only a website terms of use. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the self-hosted MCP server are Apache-2.0 | 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 | 2026-07-28 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-02-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk | 23k stars, 3.2k npm/wk, 1.6k PyPI/wk |