Skydive vs Viktor in 2026

These two are closer than most pairs in this category. Both sell AI coworkers that execute rather than draft. Both give agents their own compute. Both pass model costs through without a markup.

They differ on where you meet the agent, and on how the bill behaves once you’re using it properly.

Key takeaways

• Viktor lives where your team talks. Slack and Microsoft Teams first, with Discord added in August 2026 and a web app chat alongside them.
• Skydive gives each agent its own machine. A browser, a file system, and a terminal per agent, reachable from web, Slack, email, iMessage, desktop, CLI, and API.
• Each plan carries a usage allowance, and going past it costs more. Viktor sells credits: $50 buys 20,000 of them, not unlimited work. Skydive steps its allowance up by tier, with Team at ten times Starter, then bills what you use beyond it.
• Viktor raised $75M against Anything’s $11M, and Anything is the company that builds Skydive.

What Viktor is

Viktor is an AI employee you talk to in plain English, in the place your team already works. The tagline is “Not a tool. A hire.”

It started in Slack and Microsoft Teams, which was a deliberate distribution choice: those platforms let Viktor target workspace admins, one identifiable role who can approve a rollout for everyone. Their changelog added Discord on August 1, 2026, and a web app chat on August 6, with searchable history and auto-titled threads. Viktor’s own homepage still describes Slack and Teams only, and several third-party reviews repeat that, so the marketing lags what shipped.

Viktor runs code in its own cloud, deploys apps, and opens pull requests. It’s the most engineering-capable product in this comparison, and its own examples reflect that: a shipped internal deal-desk app wiring HubSpot, Stripe, and Slack approvals counts as one “full project.”

Viktor launched publicly in February 2026 and reached a $29M annualized run rate by August, on a $75M Series A led by Accel.

What Skydive is

Skydive launched on August 20, 2026, built by Anything, an AI app builder with over a million users founded by former Google product leaders Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe.

You describe a role and Skydive builds an agent for it, with a name and its own memory. Each agent gets a cloud computer with a browser, a file system, and a terminal, so it can log into tools that never published an API. Templates ship for Chief of Staff, Engineer, Customer Support Manager, and Project Manager, and each agent can have an email address on your domain so anyone can reach it directly.

Skydive supports more than 170 models and lists well over a hundred integrations. Anything raised an $11M Series A led by Footwork, with Bessemer, Uncork, M13, and Tobi Lütke participating.

Pricing, and the part that catches people

Viktor. $50 a month buys 20,000 credits. Their own bands put a quick task at 100 to 300 credits, a complex workflow at 500 to 1,500, and a full project at 2,000 to 5,000. So $50 is roughly four full projects, or ten mid-sized ones, or a couple of hundred quick tasks. The tier Viktor calls most popular is 300,000 credits at $750 a month. Credits are model costs passed through with no platform markup, and they roll over one month. Trustpilot sits at 3.4 out of 5, with credit burn a recurring theme and one user reporting $200 spent in two days during onboarding.

Skydive. Starter is $20 a month for up to five users, Team is $200 with ten times the usage, and Enterprise is custom. Agents are unlimited on every tier, though the five-user cap on Starter means a sixth person moves you to Team. Model and compute usage is billed on top, pay as you go, at a stated 0% markup.

Both plan fees are floors, and Skydive’s rises with headcount as well as usage. Viktor at least hands you a unit to watch: credits drain visibly and roll over a month, which is why the complaints about them are specific enough to count. Skydive publishes no equivalent counter, so it’s the harder of the two to forecast, though it meters agents and usage rather than heads, which is the cheaper shape until you pass Starter’s five users.

Where the two actually differ

Where you meet it. Viktor is chat-native in the tools your team already has open. Skydive spans seven surfaces with one identity and one memory, including an email address per agent that people outside your company can use.

One coworker or a roster. Viktor is one coworker your whole workspace talks to. Skydive is a roster you staff by role. If you want accountability per function, the roster reads more naturally. If you want one place to ask, Viktor does.

Engineering depth. Viktor is stronger here, and its case studies show it: running code, deploying apps, opening pull requests.

Reach into tools with no API. Skydive is stronger here, because a browser-equipped agent can go where no connector exists.

Maturity. Viktor has been in market since February 2026 with a $29M run rate and $75M raised. Skydive is days old, on an $11M Series A, with a fifteen-person team. Viktor is the safer bet on staying power.

Security. Both hold SOC 2 Type I. Viktor is further along, with Type II and ISO 27001 both in progress. Skydive publishes per-agent access controls, single-tenant sandboxes, and regular third-party penetration testing.

Which one should you pick

Pick Viktor if your team lives in Slack or Teams and you want one capable coworker there, especially if the work is technical. Budget by watching credits for a month before you scale it, because the entry price is not what active use costs.

Pick Skydive if you want roles filled rather than one shared coworker, and if your work runs through tools that no connector reaches. Unlimited agents make it cheap to give each person real coverage, up to Starter’s five-user cap.

Pick neither if the actual problem is that work arriving in your own inbox gets missed. Viktor waits for you to ask it. Skydive waits for someone to email the agent directly, or for a Routine’s schedule.

Where we fit

this+that differs from both on what starts the work.

Skydive’s Routines run on a clock. Their own page is titled “Agents That Run on a Schedule,” and their FAQ gives examples like every weekday at 9am. An agent will also act on an email sent to its own address, but somebody has to send it there. Viktor waits for you to ask it something in chat. In both cases a person or a timer sets the work going.

We read Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and WhatsApp Business as one stream of incoming work, and the arriving message is the trigger. The request buried in a long thread becomes a task in DoBox, assignable and visible to the whole team, and a workflow can act on it the moment it lands. Nobody forwards anything, because we’re already reading the mailbox.

The knowledge layer is shared too. Our brain is one layer every teammate and every workflow reads and writes, filling itself from the conversations your team is already having, rather than living inside one agent or one chat history.

Frequently asked questions

Is Skydive cheaper than Viktor?

At the entry tier, yes: $20 a month against $50. But both bill usage on top of the plan, so the entry price is not the comparison that matters. Viktor’s 20,000 credits cover roughly four full projects by their own numbers, and Skydive’s usage is billed pay as you go with no cap implied by the plan.

Does Viktor work outside Slack and Teams?

Yes. Viktor added Discord on August 1, 2026, and a web app chat on August 6. Its own homepage and several third-party reviews still describe it as Slack and Teams only, which is out of date.

Which one can use tools that have no API?

Skydive. Each agent gets a cloud computer with a browser, so it can log into a system and click through it. Viktor works through its integrations and its own cloud environment.

Which is better for engineering work?

Viktor. Running code, deploying apps, and opening pull requests are core to what it does, and its published examples are largely engineering shaped.

Do either of them act the moment an email arrives?

Not for mail landing in your own inbox. A Skydive agent acts on arrival only when someone emails it at its own address, and its Routines otherwise run on a schedule. Viktor responds when someone asks it in chat.