Browser Use vs Skyvern
Skyvern leads on trust: 87.0/100 (Grade A) against 72.2/100 (Grade B), a 14.8-point gap. Browser Use leads on adoption; Skyvern leads on supply-chain integrity and provenance.
Agents that use the browser.
Choose Browser Use if adoption matters most.
- +5.3Adoption: 2.4M weekly downloads against 1.5k
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Choose Skyvern if supply-chain integrity and provenance matter most.
- +13.9Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 35%
- +7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
- +2.2Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 7.4 against 4.8
Where they differ
1 dimension identical: Maintenance 20.0 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Browser Use and Skyvern, two Browser & Computer Use projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.
Full evidence
| Signal | Browser Usebrowser-use/browser-use | SkyvernSkyvern-AI/skyvern |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 72.2 | 87.0 |
| Evidence grade | B | A |
| Coverage grade | A | A |
| Overall rank | #293 | #55 |
| Rank in Browser & Computer Use | #12 | #6 |
| GitHub stars | 117.1k | 23.1k |
| Last updated | today | today |
| Build provenance | No | Yes |
| OSSF Scorecard | 4.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Downloads | 2.4M/wk | 1k/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 7.8 | 21.7 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 10.8 | 18.0 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.6 | 14.8 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 20.0 | 20.0 |
| Adoption / 20 | 20.0 | 14.7 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Declared | Implemented |
| External providers | 5 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini, … | 5 — Anthropic, Google Gemini, Multi-provider (LiteLLM), … |
| Requires API keys | Yes | Yes |
| Plugin surface | — | — |
| Provenance drift | Match | Unknown |
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →