Browser Use vs Skyvern
Browser Use (Browser Use) and Skyvern (Skyvern AI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Browser Use has 418.3x the weekly package downloads of Skyvern (2.4M against 5,699). Browser Use has 5.1x the GitHub stars of Skyvern (117K against 23.1K). Browser Use shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days. Skyvern shipped 10 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Browser Use | Skyvern |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 60 | 28 |
| Overall rank | #14 | #104 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.4M | 5,699 |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 16.3% | up 0.3% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 14.8% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 117K | 23.1K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 8 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 0.13.10 · 32d ago | 1.0.55 · 5d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 7 | 10 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free | Free + $29/mo |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0-only |
| First released | November 2024 | March 2024 |
| Interfaces | API, CLI | API, CLI, Web |
| Models | Any LLM of your choice (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) plus its own BU2 model via the cloud | OpenAI GPT-5.x, Anthropic Claude 4.x, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
Trends
Browser Use
Open-source Python library and hosted cloud that let LLM agents control a real browser to complete web tasks, with a CLI, a cloud API for hosted agents and browsers, and its own BU2 model option.
Pricing: Open-source library is free (MIT). Cloud is pay-as-you-go with no subscription: credits from a $5 top-up, browsers $0.02/hour, residential proxies $5/GB, hosted agents billed at model cost plus 20%; the pricing page lists $1 in free credits for eligible signups (the README mentions $15).
Latest release 0.13.10:
- Upgrade Browser Harness to 0.1.13.
- Exact-pin all declared runtime, optional, development, and build dependencies.
- Upgrade and migrate to MCP Python SDK 2.1.1.
- Add pydantic-settings 2.15.0 as an explicit runtime dependency.
Skyvern
Open-source platform that automates browser-based workflows with LLMs and computer vision, available as a self-hosted AGPL project with Python and TypeScript SDKs and as the managed Skyvern Cloud, which adds proxies and anti-bot measures.
Pricing: Self-hosted open source is free (bring your own LLM key). Cloud: Free $0 (5,000 credits), Hobby $29/month (30,000 credits), Pro $149/month (150,000 credits), Enterprise custom.
Latest release 1.0.55:
- Bump version to 1.0.55 (#8758) (d45e60095)
- SKY-17491: Inline run reliability below analytics (#8753) (4a3ca3abc)
- Stabilize request principal attribution (#8751) (643d9d049)
- SKY-17496: Keep run ID copy in the Studio top bar only (#8749) (6c57e35e3)