Skyvern blog · Jun 2026
Skyvern announced Rustwright, a Playwright-compatible Rust engine that it says uses 70% less memory than Playwright and boots 2.55x faster.
Open Source AI Agent to automate browser workflows via an API
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Skyvern is a YC S23, San Francisco-based AI browser automation company. Its open-source core and cloud product automate logins, forms, invoice downloads, data extraction, and other browser workflows using LLMs, computer vision, and Playwright, with a managed enterprise offering for compliance-heavy use cases.
Primary product
AI-powered browser automation platform / Playwright extension for browser workflows
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI browser automation / agentic process automation
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
usage-based SaaS
open-source core + managed cloud
enterprise subscriptions
self-hosted deployment
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.8M
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$2.7M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Founding Account Executive
Founding AI Engineer
Founders
Co-Founder
Work & culture
Public writing emphasizes research-driven execution, extreme ownership, high trust/high accountability, and low-friction communication. The company also promotes practical engineering, open-source collaboration, and a bias toward shipping and learning from real customer workflows.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public roles show salary bands plus equity: Founding SDR ($60K-$75K base, about $90K OTE, equity), Founding Account Executive ($120K-$300K plus equity), and Founding Developer Marketing ($100K-$150K plus equity). Job posts also indicate US/CA remote hiring and 'US citizen/visa only' eligibility.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based credits with Free, Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise tiers; enterprise has custom pricing.
Differentiators
- —Open-source AGPL core
- —Playwright-compatible AI browser automation
- —Visual reasoning instead of brittle selectors
- —Planner-Agent-Validator architecture
- —Explore-then-replay / compile-to-code execution
- —Native CAPTCHA and 2FA handling
- —Self-hostable/on-prem deployment
- —Model-agnostic support across multiple LLM providers
- —Enterprise compliance positioning (SOC 2 / HIPAA)
- —Works across websites without custom scripts or APIs
Technology
Playwright
Python
TypeScript
Docker
Chromium
REST API
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
LLMs
computer vision
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google Gemini
Ollama
Bitwarden
1Password
Azure Key Vault
webhooks
residential proxies
Customers
CarEdge
Pilot
Valence Intelligence
rapidAND
Legion Health
ONLAYER
Pathmonk
Competitors
Thread AI
Browser Use
General Agents
Axiom
Stagehand
Browse AI
Director
Anchorbrowser
Steel
Sola
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
near $2M ARR (public estimate, Apr 2026)
Estimated monthly visits
91.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Skyvern blog · Jun 2026
The company highlighted workflow/product updates including a draggable editor, MCP OAuth improvements, stronger run controls, and other product shipping notes.
Skyvern blog · Jan 2026
Skyvern introduced a simpler credits-based pricing model with Free, Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise tiers, along with clearer packaging for automation capacity.
Skyvern blog · Dec 2025
Skyvern announced a $2.7M seed round and described its compile-to-code approach, visual reasoning, and benchmark work.
Skyvern blog · Jun 2025
Skyvern shared how it landed its first customers and validated browser automation demand across manual, brittle back-office workflows.
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