# Pomerado vs Skyvern

> Skyvern and Pomerado score within a point of each other for browser automation, 63.1 and 62.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-17

Skyvern and Pomerado score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.1 (B) and 62.6 (B). Pomerado leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do browser automation.

- Pomerado: grade B, 62.6/100, rank #468 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json
- Skyvern: grade B, 63.1/100, rank #450 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyvern.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyvern.json
- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md
- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Pomerado (B)

Good for: An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 76
- Security & auth, 69 against 59
- Payments & pricing, 42 against 32

Watch for: First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile

### Skyvern (B)

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:
- Reliability, 57 against 40
- Transparency & trust, 72 against 54

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Every API key and OAuth token has full organisation authority. The docs state there are no read-only, per-endpoint or per-resource keys


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Pomerado | Skyvern | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 57 | Skyvern +17 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 88 | Skyvern +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 76 | Pomerado +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 59 | Pomerado +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 42 | 32 | Pomerado +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 85 | Skyvern +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 72 | Skyvern +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **62.6 · B** | **63.1 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pomerado | Skyvern |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pomerado AI, Inc. | Ikonomos Inc. (Skyvern) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` | `https://api.skyvern.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only | 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 | 14 | 114 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` | `io.github.Skyvern-AI/skyvern` |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-02-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 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 | 37k npm/wk | 23k stars, 3.2k npm/wk, 1.6k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Pomerado.** An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.

**Skyvern.** The hosted MCP server annotates every tool as read-only or destructive and can advertise a 29 or 32-tool subset in place of 114, and the API has a written six-month deprecation policy. Every key and OAuth token carries full organisation authority, with no read-only or scoped credential, and no request rate limits are documented.

## Before you call either

### Pomerado

1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds
2. Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build
3. Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again
4. Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat
5. Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread

### Skyvern

1. Connect to https://api.skyvern.com/mcp/x/lean or /x/operate, or send `X-Skyvern-Scope`, so the client loads 32 or 29 tools. The scope filters the list and does not limit permissions
2. Use a separate Skyvern organisation for each blast radius. Any key or OAuth token can read and write stored credentials and delete workflows
3. Never pass passwords to `skyvern_act` or `skyvern_type`. Store them as credentials and call `skyvern_login`
4. Set `max_steps` on tasks, or `x-max-steps-override` on agent runs, to cap credits. A run that reaches the cap ends as `timed_out`
5. On 503 from POST /v1/run/agents, wait `Retry-After` seconds. No run was created, so resubmitting is safe

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Pomerado or Skyvern?

Skyvern and Pomerado score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.1 (B) and 62.6 (B). Pomerado leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing.

### Do Pomerado and Skyvern need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Pomerado and Skyvern without installing anything?

Yes. Pomerado has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp and Skyvern at https://api.skyvern.com/v1.

### Are Pomerado and Skyvern open source?

Yes. Pomerado is open source (Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only). Skyvern is open source (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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-skyvern.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-skyvern.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "pomerado", "b": "skyvern"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare pomerado skyvern`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyvern.json

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