# Browser Use vs Skyvern (slim)

> Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Skyvern's 63.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skyvern leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Skyvern doesn't. Category scores, facts…

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Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Skyvern's 63.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skyvern leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Skyvern doesn't.

- Browser Use: BB 77.9, rank #16 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browser-use.min.md
- Skyvern: B 63.1, rank #288 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyvern.min.md
- Browser Use, good for An agent that wants to hand a whole browser task to a hosted agent and get a result back, or that needs a low-cost cloud browser over CDP, and for unattended agents that can pay by x402. Ahead on Reliability, 87 against 57; Payments & pricing, 90 against 32. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; 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 Maintenance & community, 85 against 77; Transparency & trust, 72 against 65.

| Category | Browser Use | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 87 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 90 | 32 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Browser Use | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Browser Use | Ikonomos Inc. (Skyvern) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4` | `https://api.skyvern.com/v1` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | MIT for the open-source library and the SDK. Browser Use Cloud is a proprietary service under Browser Use's terms of service | 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 | 7 | 114 |
| MCP registry | `com.browser-use/browser-use` | `io.github.Skyvern-AI/skyvern` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-15 | 2026-02-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk | 23k stars, 3.2k npm/wk, 1.6k PyPI/wk |