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Skyvern

Automate Website Tasks With AI Free — Skyvern

Automate browser tasks with AI vision — fill forms, extract data, click through sites without code.

v1.0.36
May 2026
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Traditional browser automation tools like Selenium or Playwright rely on CSS selectors and XPath expressions to locate page elements. The moment a developer changes a class name or restructures a layout, your automation breaks — and you're back to debugging fragile scripts.

Skyvern takes a completely different approach. Instead of targeting DOM elements directly, it uses computer vision and large language models to visually understand web pages the same way a human would. It reads the page, identifies what action to take, and executes it in real time — even on websites it has never encountered before.

Developers interact with Skyvern through simple plain-English commands: act (perform an action), extract (pull structured data), validate (verify a condition), and prompt (ask a question about the page). These compose into multi-step workflows that can loop, branch, and feed data into downstream systems.

Practical applications include filling procurement forms across supplier portals, extracting pricing data from competitor sites, downloading invoices from vendor accounts, automating two-factor authentication flows, and triggering actions in legacy internal tools that have no API.

Skyvern integrates with Zapier, Make.com, and n8n for no-code pipeline embedding, and supports the Model Context Protocol for agent-to-agent use. It works with any LLM backend — OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Ollama, Google Gemini, and others. You can self-host via Docker for free or use the managed Skyvern Cloud tier. AGPL-3.0 licensed with over 21,000 GitHub stars.

Related Tools

  • Flowise — Combine Skyvern's web automation with Flowise to build AI workflows that browse the web and process the results
  • Ollama — Run local LLMs to power Skyvern's vision tasks without sending screen data to external AI providers

FAQ

Is Skyvern free?+
Skyvern is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and free to self-host via Docker. The Skyvern Cloud managed service has a paid tier with usage-based pricing. For developers and teams comfortable running Docker, the self-hosted version provides the full feature set at no cost — including multi-step workflows, data extraction, and flexible LLM backends.
How to automate website form filling for free?+
Self-host Skyvern using the Docker setup from the GitHub repository. Point it at any website with a plain-English instruction like 'fill out the contact form with these details and submit.' Skyvern visually reads the page, locates the fields, fills them in, and submits — no CSS selectors or custom scripts required.
Best free alternative to Browse AI?+
Skyvern is the best free alternative to Browse AI for developers. Browse AI is a paid SaaS with limited free credits. Skyvern is self-hostable, open source, and supports any LLM backend including Ollama for fully local inference. It handles complex multi-step workflows and two-factor authentication that simpler scraping tools cannot manage.
Skyvern vs Playwright — which is better for AI automation?+
Playwright gives you programmatic control over browsers using code and CSS selectors — precise but fragile when sites change. Skyvern uses AI vision to understand pages visually, making it resilient to layout changes and able to work on sites it has never seen. Playwright is better for stable internal tools with known DOM structure; Skyvern is better for external sites and workflows that need to adapt to UI changes.