Nintex vs Skyvern
Nintex and Skyvern are both robotic process automation software. Nintex is a commercial product from Nintex. Skyvern is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 23k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Nintex when
- A larger organisation on Microsoft 365 or with on-premises requirements wants IT-built workflows with formal approvals.
- Pick Skyvern when
- You need to automate tasks across many websites without APIs, such as portals, quotes or applications, and selector-based scripts keep breaking.
Side by side
Enterprise forms and workflow with task assignment, delegation, escalation after a set time and multi-party approvals, long used on SharePoint and available in the cloud or on premises.
Automates browser workflows with LLMs and computer vision, filling forms and navigating sites from instructions rather than brittle selectors.
It is a designer tool for IT teams, not something a small team sets up in an afternoon.
AGPL license, LLM costs per run, and results are less predictable than scripted automation.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Python, TypeScript, Playwright and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Nintex
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
No Wikipedia article of its own
23k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v1.0.56.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-06 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.