Key features
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
- AI-powered browser automation
- Visual understanding of web pages
- Complex multi-step workflows
- API and workflow builder
- Self-hosted option
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Updated March 10, 2026
Skyvern is an AI-powered browser automation platform that uses computer vision and LLMs to interact with websites. Unlike traditional web scraping that relies on fragile DOM selectors, Skyvern understands web pages visually and can navigate, fill forms, and extract data from any website without site-specific configuration. It's designed for enterprise workflow automation across diverse web applications.
Steel is an open-source browser API and sandbox designed for AI agents. It provides managed browser sessions with authentication persistence, anti-detection, and debugging tools, handling the infrastructure complexity of running browsers at scale for autonomous AI workflows.
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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