# Skyvern vs TinyFish (slim)

> TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) 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.

- Skyvern: B 63.1, rank #369 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyvern.min.md
- TinyFish: B 67.7, rank #227 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.min.md
- 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 80; Transparency & trust, 72 against 59. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- TinyFish, good for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 55 against 32. Also No incidents deducted, where Skyvern loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Skyvern | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 32 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Skyvern | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ikonomos Inc. (Skyvern) | Tiny Fish, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.skyvern.com/v1` | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. The MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` and the cookbook are MIT. The SDK packages state no licence in npm or PyPI metadata |
| Tools exposed | 114 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Skyvern-AI/skyvern` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-27 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 23k stars, 3.2k npm/wk, 1.6k PyPI/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |