Verified from skyvern.com on June 20, 2026

Skyvern pricing in 2026, the official numbers and what they actually buy

Most pages that rank for this still quote $0.05 per step. That model is gone. Skyvern moved to monthly credits on January 30, 2026. Below is the current tier table copied straight off their pricing page, then the one number the page buries: what a credit really costs once CAPTCHA, proxies, and retries start drawing from the same pool.

Matthew Diakonov, Written with AI

Published June 20, 20267 min read

Direct answerVerified June 20, 2026

Skyvern has four official tiers in 2026: Free at $0/month (5,000 credits), Hobby at $29/month (30,000 credits), Pro at $149/month (150,000 credits), and Enterprise at custom pricing (unlimited credits). Source of truth: skyvern.com/pricing.

The full 2026 tier table

Every figure here is lifted from the live pricing page. The estimated-actions row is Skyvern's own translation of credits into work, and it is the row that matters most.

Tier	Price	Credits / mo	Est. actions / mo	Concurrency	Proxy
FreeEvaluate and prototype. No credit card required.	$0/mo	5,000 credits	~170 actions	1 concurrent run	Datacenter proxy
HobbySide projects and small pipelines.	$29/mo	30,000 credits	~1,200 actions	10 concurrent runs	Datacenter proxy
ProProduction-grade with team features.	$149/mo	150,000 credits	~6,200 actions	25 concurrent runs	Residential proxy
EnterpriseHIPAA, SOC 2, on-prem, dedicated support.	Custom	Unlimited credits	Unlimited	Unlimited concurrent runs	Residential proxy

Skyvern also notes “500+ enterprise teams already on Skyvern” and that most developers start on Free and move to Pro within about two weeks. Pricing and credit allotments can change; re-check the official page before you budget.

The number the pricing page buries

Credits are easy to skim past. Translate them and the picture sharpens. Pro is $149 for 150,000 credits, which Skyvern estimates at about 6,200 actions a month. Divide it out and that is roughly $0.024 per action, on a clean run. The Free tier's 5,000 credits buy only about 0 actions, which is why it is an evaluation tier and not a production one.

~6,200

“Estimated actions per month on the $149 Pro plan, by Skyvern's own math. That is the ceiling for simple workflows, before retries and anti-bot handling start spending the same credits.”

skyvern.com/pricing, verified June 20, 2026

Here is the catch the table hides: a credit is “a unit of browser execution,” and Skyvern lists exactly what makes a run spend more of them. Your $149 does not buy a fixed amount of work. It buys a fixed amount of credits, and the work those credits cover shrinks on hard targets.

What quietly draws down the same credit pool

Runtime: longer-running pages consume more credits per run
Page complexity: heavier DOMs and more elements cost more
Retries: validation and re-attempts spend credits each time
CAPTCHA solving: anti-bot challenges add to the bill
Proxies and geo-targeting: residential and located traffic costs more

None of this is a knock on Skyvern. Credit billing is honest about the fact that browser automation against defended sites is variable work. It just means the “~6,200 actions” figure is a best case, and if you are quoting a Skyvern budget to a finance team, you should quote a range, not the headline action count.

Where the price comparison stops mattering

If you landed here weighing Skyvern against an enterprise automation budget, there is a boundary worth naming before you pick a tier. Every Skyvern plan, Free through Enterprise, runs inside a browser. If the workflow you actually need to automate lives in a thick-client desktop app with no usable API, no Skyvern tier reaches it, and that is not something more credits fix.

Skyvern, every tier

Credit-based, browser-only

$0 to custom, billed in credits that a browser run consumes. Excellent for web portals and modern SaaS. Reaches anything a Chromium tab can render, and nothing it cannot.

Mediar

Time-based, desktop accessibility APIs

$0.75 per minute of runtime, no per-seat licensing, plus a $10,000 turn-key program fee that converts to prepaid credits. Reads what apps expose through OS-level accessibility APIs, so it drives SAP GUI, Jack Henry, Fiserv, FIS, Oracle EBS, Epic, Cerner, and mainframe terminals that browser agents never see.

The honest framing is that these are not strict substitutes. A browser agent is the right tool for new web SaaS. If your data lives in a green screen or a Windows desktop client, the price of a browser tier is beside the point, because it cannot read that surface at all. Mediar bills on time rather than credits, which also means the cost is deterministic: a workflow that takes four minutes costs the same whether or not the target threw a CAPTCHA, because there is no browser anti-bot layer in the path.

Pricing a desktop workflow a browser agent can't reach?

Bring one legacy desktop process and we'll scope runtime cost on a short call, no credit math required.

Frequently asked questions

What is Skyvern's official pricing in 2026?

As of June 20, 2026, skyvern.com/pricing lists four tiers: Free at $0/month (5,000 credits), Hobby at $29/month (30,000 credits), Pro at $149/month (150,000 credits), and Enterprise at custom pricing with unlimited credits. All paid tiers run on a monthly credit model, not the old per-step price.

Didn't Skyvern cost $0.05 per step?

It did, and a lot of review pages still quote that number. Skyvern retired the $0.05-per-step model and switched to monthly credits effective January 30, 2026, because, in their words, steps are an implementation detail and per-step billing discouraged people from adding validation and retries. If a comparison site shows $0.05/step, it is reporting the old model.

What is a Skyvern credit, and how many do I actually use?

Skyvern defines a credit as a unit of browser execution. How many a run consumes depends on runtime, page complexity, retries, and anti-bot measures (CAPTCHA solving, proxies, geo-targeting). Their own page translates the tiers to roughly 170 actions on Free, 1,200 on Hobby, and 6,200 on Pro per month. Treat those as ceilings for clean workflows, not guarantees; a CAPTCHA-heavy or retry-heavy run burns the same pool faster.

What does Pro really cost per action?

Pro is $149/month for 150,000 credits, which Skyvern estimates at about 6,200 actions. That works out to roughly $0.024 per action, but only if your workflows stay simple. Because retries and anti-bot handling draw from the same credits, the effective per-action cost rises on hard targets. The dollar figure is fixed; the work it buys is variable.

Is there a free Skyvern plan?

Yes. The Free tier is $0/month with 5,000 credits (about 170 actions), one concurrent run, and a datacenter proxy. No credit card is required. Skyvern positions it for evaluation and prototyping and notes most developers move to Pro within about two weeks once they ship something real.

Does any Skyvern tier automate desktop apps like SAP GUI or a banking core?

No, and this is the part price cannot fix. Skyvern is a browser agent; every tier, Free through Enterprise, runs inside Chromium. If your data lives in SAP GUI, a Jack Henry or Fiserv green screen, Oracle EBS, Epic, or a mainframe terminal, no Skyvern plan reaches it. That desktop layer is exactly where accessibility-API automation like Mediar operates.

How does Mediar's pricing compare?

Mediar bills $0.75 per minute of runtime with no per-seat licensing, plus a $10,000 turn-key program fee that converts to prepaid credits. It is time-based and deterministic rather than credit-based, and it covers the legacy Windows desktop systems a browser agent cannot touch. The two tools are not strictly substitutes: Skyvern for browser SaaS, Mediar for the no-API desktop layer.